Dr Rakib Ehsan details a growth in anti-Christian sentiment as the latest UK figures show a 9% increase in religious hate crimes from March 2022 to 2023.
The figures also reveal an overall decrease of 5%, with 145,214 hate crimes reported to the police. Transgender hate crimes had the biggest annual increase, rising 11% to 4,732 reports. 39% of religious hate crime offences were targeted against Muslims, while Jewish people accounted for 17% of reports. Christian hate crime reports made up 7% of the figures, and in 22% of offences reported, the targeted religion was not known.
Dr Rakib Ehsan discusses the figures and the reasons for the increase in religious hate crimes, emphasizing the need to differentiate between legitimate criticisms of ideologies and actual forms of hateful discrimination.
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