{"id":108440,"date":"2019-09-02T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T23:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/02\/boris-johnsons-burqa-comments-led-to-surge-in-anti-muslim-attacks\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T23:01:38","slug":"boris-johnsons-burqa-comments-led-to-surge-in-anti-muslim-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=108440","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson\u2019s burqa comments \u2018led to surge in anti-Muslim attacks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring group says abuse incidents jumped by 375% in the week following PM\u2019s articleBoris Johnson\u2019s comments on women wearing the veil led to a surge in anti-Muslim attacks and incidents of abuse, the monitoring group Tell Mama has said.In its annual report, the group said two significant spikes occurred in 2018. The first, in spring, reflected the \u201cPunish a Muslim day\u201d incident when letters were sent to Muslim homes, institutions and places of work. The letter suggested people could win \u201cpoints\u201d for a range of activities aimed at Muslims, including removing a headscarf from a woman or beating a person up. Muslim MPs also received the letters. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/sep\/02\/boris-johnsons-burqa-comments-led-to-surge-in-anti-muslim-attacks\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Johnson\u2019s burqa comments \u2018led to surge in anti-Muslim attacks\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring group says abuse incidents jumped by 375% in the week following PM\u2019s articleBoris Johnson\u2019s comments on women wearing the veil led to a surge in anti-Muslim attacks and incidents of abuse, the monitoring group Tell Mama has said.In its annual report, the group said two significant spikes occurred in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}