Huge rise in number of racist attacks

It's sickening, but I suppose it's to be utterly expected in a time when the government are telling everyone that we are at war with radical Islam.

Record numbers of racist incidents – from verbal abuse to stabbings – are being reported to police, fuelling fears that levels of Islamophobia are rising.

More than 61,000 complaints of racially motivated crime were made in 2006-07, a rise of 28 per cent in just five years, with increases reported by most police forces in England and Wales. Officers classified 42,551 of the complaints as racially or religiously aggravated offences. Nearly two thirds were offences of harassment, 13 per cent wounding, 12 per cent criminal damage and 10 per cent assault.

Nor will there be any public outrage over this. People are being told to fear a certain group in society and it naturally follows that they will hate what they are being asked to fear.

The biggest surge in racist incidents was recorded last year in South Yorkshire, where the number leapt by 77 per cent, and Thames Valley, where it rose by 46 per cent.

And all of this is taking place in a society which prides itself on it's multiculturalism. As I say, it's simply sickening.

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