Iran press/ Europe: Islamic Human Rights Commission hold its annual Islamophobia Awards event in London to recognise the worst Islamophobes from around the world.
The winners had been chosen by a panel of judges following public nominations for the different categories.
This is the third time that Donald Trump is introduced as a symbol of Islamophobia.
Annually, the Islamic Human Rights Commission of the United Kingdom grants the Islamophobia awards to the people who have played a major role in Islamophobia because of their hateful statements.
The annual Islamophobia Awards by the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission hosted the representatives of many NGOs and Muslims.
In the US, studies show that in 2015 and 2016, hate crimes and attacks against Muslims skyrocketed. According to a 2017 Pew Research center analysis, which relied on FBI statistics, assaults on Muslims have “easily surpassed” post-9/11 levels.
One factor that experts often point to is the rise of Donald Trump.
As a presidential candidate, Trump made frequent use of anti-Muslim rhetoric, saying things like, “I think Islam hates us,” and suggesting that he was not opposed to the idea of a Muslim database. After taking office, Trump signed an executive order barring people from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. He’s appointed people who have espoused anti-Muslim views to key Cabinet positions. And he’s even circulated anti-Muslim videos to his tens of millions of Twitter followers.
Republishing the Twitter page of a British right-wing and anti-Islamic group by Trump, prompted protests of the Muslims, politicians and even the archbishop of the British Church.
The leader of the religious group Nation of Islam (NOI), warned US President not to pull “the trigger of war in the Middle East at the insistence of Israel.”
Speaking Thursday while on a visit to Iran, the leader of the religious group Nation of Islam (NOI) Louis Farrakhan criticized the economic sanctions leveled by Donald Trump against Iran after America’s pullout from the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. 101/202
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