Public meeting
Thursday 10 March • 6.30 pm
Bloomsbury Baptist Church
235 Shaftesbury Avenue
London, WC2H 8EP
Speakers:
• Salma Yaqoob
• Lindsey German
• Moazzam Begg
• Kevin Courtney
• Maz Saleem
• Sabby Dhalu
• Mohammed Umar Farooq
This important meeting will discuss the various forms and consequences of the rise of Islamophobia, and the ways to challenge and defeat it.
Among various other consequences of this anti-Muslim prejudice, violence and discrimination, it has also severely damaged and limited the humanitarian response to the refugee crisis which was largely caused by Western interventions, occupations and subsequent wars. Obscenely, the UK government has deported thousands of child refugees back to the war zones of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria (including the war-ravaged city of Aleppo). Islamophobia produces heartlessness even towards child victims of war.