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The number of reports of anti-Muslim hate and prejudice in London in the first half of the year has surpassed the total annual count for 2024, an organization monitoring the issue has said.
DPA reports that anti-Muslim hate-monitoring organization Tell Mama branded the statistics it collated “alarming,” showing a sixfold increase in the yearly totals from 2021 to 2025 in the capital.
It said the data shows a “sustained escalation of anti-Muslim hate” and that behind each report is “a Londoner who was made to feel unsafe simply because of their faith.”
There were 313 reports in 2021, more than doubling to 818 in 2022, and rising each year since to a record of 1,909 last year.
Between the beginning of January and the end of June this year, Tell Mama recorded 1,031 reports, surpassing the 1,028 reports in the whole of 2023.
In May, a Unite the Kingdom rally organized by activist Tommy Robinson took place in central London, and was criticized by one of the capital’s deputy mayors for insrances of Islamophobia she said occurred at the event.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “Muslims across the UK face appalling levels of religious hate crime.”
