Different forms of Hate crime : (copsey report)
• threat of aggression in forms of offensive letters, abusive or indecent telephone calls, groups hanging around to intimidate, and baseless, malicious complaints;
• Verbal abuse, insults or harassment - taunting, offensive posters and leaflets, abusive gestures, dumping of garbage through letterboxes or outside homes , and bullying at school or in the workplace. (http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/fact_sheets/hate_crime/ )
• physical attacks like physical assault, damage to property, offensive graffiti and intentional burning;
As we can understand from the above ‘official’ definition, anti-Muslim hate crime creates a form of religious hate crime. Thus Anti-Muslim hate crime can be understood, …show more content…
Also available at the Research Development and Statistics Directorate’s section of the Home Office web site: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/hors220.pdf. Printed versions are available on request from publications.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk.) The research team also published a more discursive and systematic Interim Report in January 2000. (Paul Weller and Kingsley Purdam et al., Religious Discrimination in England and Wales, Interim Report, January 2000 (Derby: University of Derby, 2000). This reviews the historical background, describes the current religious diversity of Britain, and provides information on anti-discrimination legislation in the UK and a number of other countries. An ‘Executive Summary’ of the Interim Report was also published.) (Journal of Islamic
• threat of aggression in forms of offensive letters, abusive or indecent telephone calls, groups hanging around to intimidate, and baseless, malicious complaints;
• Verbal abuse, insults or harassment - taunting, offensive posters and leaflets, abusive gestures, dumping of garbage through letterboxes or outside homes , and bullying at school or in the workplace. (http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/fact_sheets/hate_crime/ )
• physical attacks like physical assault, damage to property, offensive graffiti and intentional burning;
As we can understand from the above ‘official’ definition, anti-Muslim hate crime creates a form of religious hate crime. Thus Anti-Muslim hate crime can be understood, …show more content…
Also available at the Research Development and Statistics Directorate’s section of the Home Office web site: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/hors220.pdf. Printed versions are available on request from publications.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk.) The research team also published a more discursive and systematic Interim Report in January 2000. (Paul Weller and Kingsley Purdam et al., Religious Discrimination in England and Wales, Interim Report, January 2000 (Derby: University of Derby, 2000). This reviews the historical background, describes the current religious diversity of Britain, and provides information on anti-discrimination legislation in the UK and a number of other countries. An ‘Executive Summary’ of the Interim Report was also published.) (Journal of Islamic