A Muslim woman was attacked with a glass bottle.
Walking home from work through Glasgow city centre. Alone. Just past midnight.
Four men surrounded her. One smashed a bottle over her head.
They told her to take off her hijab. They called her a dirty P**i. They told her this was their country, and to go home.
She wears hijab. That's why she was a target.
There's a word for using violence to terrorise people for who they are.
They'll use it about us. They won't use it about this.
A taxi driver saw it. He shouted for someone to call 999. He pulled her into his car. She was shaking, saying "oh my god", in shock.
She went to hospital. She needed stitches.
Then Police Scotland gave their account.
A disturbance involving a group of youths. The youths had made off. No one required medical treatment.
They called them youths.
We call them men who terrorised a woman.
This isn't an isolated incident anymore. It's a pattern.
Last month in Edinburgh, five Muslim men were attacked with a machete after leaving prayers at Broomhouse Mosque. The man charged faces ten terrorism-linked offences. Every charge carries a terrorist connection.
This week on Renfield Street, a woman was struck with a bottle for wearing a hijab. And it became a disturbance.
Each incident gets reported as a standalone story. Local news. Move on.
But zoom out and the pattern is unmistakable.
And it falls hardest on women.
1 in 5 Muslim women have experienced a hate incident in the last year.
80% never report it.
Hate aimed at Muslim women is more likely to carry sexual aggression than hate aimed at men.
On our own platform, we documented 70 anti-Muslim incidents in May. In June: 105.
A 50% rise in a single month.
Still no COBRA meeting.
Still no renewed hate crime action plan. The last one expired in 2020.
Still the funding we were promised comes with strings. Criticise the government, and it can be pulled.
Homes. Families. Places of worship. Vehicles. All of it under attack, from every angle.
The bottle on Renfield Street wasn't thrown in a vacuum. It was thrown in an atmosphere where a woman in hijab is told, to her face, that this isn't her country.
Except it is her country. She's a British woman. Walking home from a British job. Attacked by men who've been told hatred is patriotism.
The footage went viral because a taxi driver filmed it. But how many attacks aren't filmed? How many women change their route home? How many take the hijab off rather than risk it?
Those are the victories they're really after.
It's the same hostility. It just changes address.
On the record, it's a disturbance. On the street, it's a bottle to a woman's skull.
A Muslim man stopped his car and pulled her to safety. His name is Zack Aziz. He's the hero of this story. They won't call him that either.
Four men terrorised a woman in Glasgow.
Police called it a disturbance.
No one, they said, required medical treatment.
She was in hospital getting stitches as they said it.
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Meet Gemma Mattinson, one of the organisers of the "Pink Ladies." She claims she wants to protect women and girls.
In 2011, she and her then boyfriend, Ian Barclay, were jailed for child cruelty after being filmed forcing two children, both under the age of 8, to physically fight each other while they laughed.
A young girl was ordered to hit a boy with a broom and plastic sticks. When the boy tried to hide, he was dragged across the floor and slammed into a radiator.
They both pled guilty.
She was sentenced to 8 months in prison, and her ex received a 12-month sentence.
Now, she has rebranded herself and is targeting asylum seekers staying in hotels.
Today we released a documentary about Srebrenica. YouTube for some reason put a note about the holocaust on it and shadow banned it. I guess our genocides don’t count. Please watch and share the video to help us overcome the shadow ban.
A British surgeon tells the BBC what he saw in Gaza.
"I can remember one child for example who was 7, Amir... He heard a drone above him, turned round, and then it fired on him. And we had many many reports like that from children and adults."
@MixedMitchell@5Pillarsuk I don't think you do, You are using the same boring language that the far right are using against muslims - none of that is independent thought of your own
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“We’ve Been Lied to About Islam” - Ex-Freemason Sean Stones on Danny Jones Podcast
He says we’ve been sold this image of “Islamic jihadists and bombers” our whole lives — and the narrative was deliberately hijacked to make us fear.
“Muslims honor Jesus as essentially a Messiah. He’s born of a virgin. They honor the Virgin Mary.
”Sean points out that the Quran is largely the stories of Abraham, Moses, and the Jewish prophets — basically the Old Testament with New Testament elements. It reminds him of early Christian heresies like Arianism, where Christ is seen as a divine emissary rather than God Himself.
He adds that Indonesia — the largest Muslim country in the world with nearly 200 million Muslims — is one of the more peaceful societies and not full of jihadists.
On the hijab:
“Why are you guys freaked out about hijab? Nuns do the same thing. It’s a spiritual practice… it goes back for a reason. The Jews do it too — Orthodox Jews.”
He says there’s “no compulsion in religion” in the Quran, and punishing people for leaving Islam is wrong and used as a tool of power.
@VictoriaByrneie It's grand for a white bitch to live in france for 8 years...............right? I suppose your a legal immigrant or an ex pat because your a white bitch?
@MixedMitchell@5Pillarsuk I know you have been thought a lot of propaganda and lies about Islam judging on how your responses have been but perhaps at the very least understand what they believe. It may turn out not to different to what you blv.