![]() Last June, the ethnonationalist and ethnopluralist far-right group, Generation Identity, carried out a ‘ban the burqa’ protest in England, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. Tell MAMA has continued to document the abuse, discrimination, and sometimes violence directed at Muslim women who wear the niqab.ĭiscrimination: In our 2017 report, we highlighted how two Muslim women, who both wear the niqab, were told to leave school open days with their children due to ‘security concerns’. Individuals with underlying prejudice, therefore, may feel emboldened to target those they feel to be deserving of abuse to defend the status of the dominant ‘in-group’, when forms of rhetoric are normalised, and the unacceptable becomes acceptable.īoris Johnson now faces a possible investigation into breaches of the Conservative Party code of conduct.įifteen senior Conservative Party figures have demanded an apology from the former foreign secretary. Of that figure (353 women), almost one in ten had worn the niqab.Īs with previous annual reports, we have warned that politicians and media outlets must consider their choice of language around high-profile events, as associated media coverage often stimulates public discourse on issues such as terrorism, religious expression, and immigration, which can legitimise racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic prejudice. In 2017, 62 per cent of Muslim women reporting to Tell MAMA were wearing Islamic clothing when anti-Muslim and Islamophobic incidents occurred. The women were described as white and in their 70s and 90s. The abusive comments were left unchallenged despite others hearing them. Her mother responded to her daughter’s remarks by adding, “I can’t even understand what she’s saying coz her face is covered.” When the BBC journalist referenced Johnson’s remarks, the younger pensioner, described as being in her 70s, turned to her mother and said, “she does look like a letterbox though” and both women began to chuckle. The BBC News interview, broadcast on a television in the waiting area, featured a Muslim woman in a niqab. Speaking to Tell MAMA, the woman, who wears the hijab, described how the two pensioners, a mother and daughter, knew that she was sat behind them, and how they chose to raise their voices, so she would hear the remarks, in a room where she was the only Muslim woman in Islamic clothing present. The incident occurred on August 8 and comes days after the former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, had said that Muslim women wearing burqas and niqabs “look like letterboxes” and compared them to “bank robbers” in a Telegraph article published over the weekend. Here are some of our favourites.A Muslim woman was made to feel uncomfortable when waiting for a doctor’s appointment in London as two pensioners began to loudly mock the niqab as they watched a BBC News interview in the waiting area. ![]() ![]() Sure enough, memes mocking the PM soon began to flood social media. This revelation from Johnson might have been unexpected but few people were impressed with him failing to recognise that a ‘party’ was happening in his garden. The PMs apology was said at the top of the hour before PMQs and although he admitted that he was at the event which took place on 20th May, 2020, during the height of the first lockdown he said that he “believed implicitly that this was a work event.” “All I ask is that Sue Gray be allowed to complete her inquiry into that day and several others so that the full facts can be established.” “I should have recognised that even if it could be said technically to fall within the guidance, there are millions and millions of people who simply would not see it that way, people who have suffered terribly, people who were forbidden for meeting loved ones at all inside or outside, and to them and to this House I offer my heartfelt apologies. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter uk links you straight to Boris Johnson’s Wikipedia page
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