The Southwark Council assembly has adopted the All-Party Parliamentary Group working definition of Islamophobia.
It comes as Labour and Lib Dem councillors call on the cabinet to do more to help minorities and women – including pushing for misogyny to become a hate crime.
The adopted definition of Islamophobia reads: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.”
There were 788 incidents of hate crime in Southwark in 2018, while race hate crime across the city rose from from 8,000 incidents in 2012 to almost 18,000 this year. [News Shopper] Read more
