A bomb threat evacuated 450 Muslim children from their school.
Tuesday. Birmingham.
You probably didn't hear about it.
One local school. 450 Muslim children. A bomb threat.
The media didn't think it was worth making national.
An email. Their last day of term, mid awards ceremony.
Sniffer dogs through the corridors. 450 children standing outside while police checked for explosives.
Hamd House School, Bordesley Green.
The threat was also sent to Ofsted.
Police have logged it as harassment.
We log it as what it is. A bomb threat against 450 Muslim children, on their last day of school, is Islamophobia.
The proprietor says the school has been targeted before.
The Birmingham Mail covered it. Yahoo News picked it up.
No one else.
450 children. No headline.
Days earlier, 15,000 Muslims were moved off a Suffolk estate under a declared major incident.
A far-right terror plot against a religious gathering.
Twelve arrests. Three men held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
The Home Secretary said the police response saved lives.
That one did make the news. For a day.
Try to find it now. It's not on the BBC homepage.
Two months ago, a bomb hoax evacuated a Peter Kay gig at Birmingham's Utilita Arena. Same police force. No target, no children, a comedy show.
The BBC, LBC and Yahoo all had it up within hours. National headline news.
450 Muslim children evacuated from their own school. Not one national outlet touched it.
Rajab, who worships at Al Madinah Masjid in Norwich, was there for Suffolk. He told the BBC: "I'm not scared, I'm not worried because that's a normal thing. It's a thing we face on a daily basis."
A father telling his community that surviving a terror plot is just Tuesday.
You had to search "Suffolk terror event" just to confirm it still existed.
And the state?
Two days before the school threat, the government announced £250 million to police antisemitism. Three years. Hundreds of new officers.
That threat is real. That protection is right. We would not take a penny of it away.
Our number: £40 million.
£10 a head, against £105.
And ours came with a written condition. Don't "undermine" the government, or lose it.
One community gets protection.
Ours gets a leash. And a bomb threat on the last day of school.
No COBRA meeting.
No hate crime action plan.
No headline.
450 children went home early on their last day because someone threatened to blow them up.
You had to come here to find out.
We are not asking for less protection for anyone.
We are asking for the same protection to keep our communities safe.
So no father has to explain to his child why they went home early on the last day of school, instead of walking out with an award and a smile.
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