Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus)
Research suggests that the British Muslim community is experiencing increasing levels of discrimination and hate crime (Ahmed, Ali M. 2010. "Muslim Discrimination: Evidence from Two Lost-Letter Experiments." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 40 (4): 888-898. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00602.x; Awan, Imran, and Irene Zempi. 2015. "'I Will Blow Your Face OFF'-VIRTUAL and Physical World Anti-Muslim Hate Crime." The British Journal of Criminology 57 (2): 362-380. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv122). Based on forty-four interviews with mosque staff, this paper reflects on the lived reality of being Muslim in an increasingly "hostile" climate. Importantly, show that negative interactions and aggression have become integral part of the lives of Muslims in Britain today. This work points not only to the different types of attacks that the Muslim community experiences but signals that harassment happens in various sites that jointly form the public sphere - violence and negative interactions are not restricted only to mosques and the areas around them but an individual with a Muslim identity can be targeted in different contexts. This work suggests that attacks happen often, and they contribute to a general sense of unease at best and outright fear at worst in the Muslim community.