ENGAGE draws our attention to an Early Day Motion on "Recording Islamophobia as a crime", tabled by Labour MP Keith Vaz and jointly sponsored by fellow Labour MP John McDonnell and Conservative MP Peter Bottomley. It states:

That this House notes the recognition of anti-Muslim sentiment and hate crime in the Department for Communities and Local Government's document Creating the Conditions for Integration; further notes that the document acknowledges the limited collection of data on anti-Muslim hate crime; recognises that currently only the Metropolitan Police Service specifically records this hate crime under the definition Islamophobia as a specific crime flag, similar to anti-Semitism, racism and others, whereas the recording of this crime outside of London is under different recording flags in different constabularies; and believes that all police constabularies should record this hate crime under the same flag, which will bring national uniformity in the recording of this crime and enable authorities to gather data that will aid in tackling this issue.

You can write to your MP and urge them to support the EDM here.

ENGAGE points out that you can also send the EDM to your Police and Crime Commissioner and ask if, and how, they will implement the recommendation in their policing plan and local crime strategy.

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A RELIGION OF PEACE

Islam is a religion of peace and it teaches us to respect all other religions and their followers. History gives us many proofs that Muslims have always respected the religions of others. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said in his last summon that no one will harm the religious places of the non-Muslims, and every non-Muslim will be free to move around and follow his religion. Then, why do non-Muslims all over the world victimize the Muslims and disrespect Islam? It is the utmost duty of a Muslim to protest strongly whenever they see any offensive activity against their Prophet (PBUH), and defend their religion in the best possible way. History shows that Muslims have always been living in peace with non-Muslims.

Presently, Muslims are aggressive all over the world in response to an act of offense by a non-Muslim. Muslims are destroying public property, and even taking lives of innocent people in their rage. This is a very wrong way of protesting and Islam does not recommend us to do this, because by doing so Muslims are depicting a wrong image of themselves. Some political parties do it on purpose, as they know that the Muslims will react aggressively and turn violent. Muslims should understand the reasons for such offenses being committed, and in order to eradicate the problem they should find a peaceful solution to the problem.

The Muslim governments should take strict actions and all the Muslims countries should unite and file a petition in the UN to pass laws in which any offense against any religion should be regarded as a crime and any person who condones such activities should be punished severely. Muslims should learn the basic knowledge of Islam and should start preaching their religion, to create a better understanding among people.  Muslims should work on an international level to promote unity among the Muslim nations. Because, getting violent and damaging property are not the solutions, rather unity among the Muslims and peaceful preaching is the solution to the problem.

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