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Liverpool's Muslims shocked by UK riots.

Most entrances have been blocked, men in high-vis jackets have been taking turns to patrol and a handful of worshippers have been sleeping inside at night — all necessary precautions, say officials at the Al-Rahma Mosque, during the UK's worst riots in years.

The increased vigilance comes as some Muslims and ethnic minorities in Liverpool say they feel unsafe amid widespread violent, racist protests targeting mosques, immigration centres and hotels that haven't spared the famously left-leaning city in the north of England.

Both mosque officials and other Muslims in Liverpool described feeling shocked, after two mosques further north in England were targeted by violent mobs and hundreds of anti-immigration protesters and counterprotesters clashed in central Liverpool. Shops were looted and some police were injured.

A second mosque in Liverpool, the Abdullah Quilliam, which describes itself as Britain's first, has temporarily closed due to the violence, which was fuelled by a false narrative spread online that the killer of three girls in nearby Southport last week was an Islamist migrant.

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Northumbria Police said its officers had been "subjected to serious violence" and they were continuing to deal with ongoing disorder.

“I was born here, I was raised here. So seeing this, it just doesn't feel like home,” said Abdulwase Sufian, a 20-year-old student who helps at the Al-Rahma, referring to himself as a “Scouser”, the colloquial term for someone from Liverpool.

“Seeing what's happened, it's got me scared, not just for myself, but for the future,” he said, the yellow dome and pink-and-yellow minarets of the Al-Rahma behind him as dozens of men finished afternoon prayers and left.

Sufian added that the separate female entrance for the mosque, which serves a wide range of Muslims from ethnic Yemeni to Pakistani, had been closed to discourage women from visiting in the evenings, out of safety concerns.

He himself hasn't stepped outside his immediate neighbourhood out of fears for his safety, Sufian said, a sentiment echoed by others in the community.

Saba Ahmed, a community worker and another Liverpudlian Muslim, said she had felt “terrified” in recent days, and her 15-year-old son was preferring to spend his summer holidays indoors on his PlayStation.

Still, many of Ahmed's white English friends had been supportive, she said, with some neighbours offering to do the grocery shopping for her so she could remain safe at home.

“That's our people in Liverpool, that's our fellow neighbours here,” she said.
Others have been less fortunate.

Farmanullah Nasiri, a taxi driver, described being assaulted after picking up two passengers from Aigburth Road, Liverpool, in the early hours of Tuesday.

One of them, a woman, punched him on the face and broke his dashcam as she left his silver Ford Focus, after starting an argument over the fare and after abusing him once she learnt he was an ethnic Afghan, Nasiri said.

A 17-year-old male already in custody has been charged with murder for the deaths of three young girls.

Two children were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed event in northwest England, and a 17-year-old male suspect was arrested, police said on.

“This is kind of a racism ... Been here for more than 10 years in Liverpool. Everybody's friendly. There's no issue like this before. This is the first time,” Nasiri said.

Tell MAMA, a group which monitors anti-Muslim incidents, has received over 500 calls and online reports of anti-Muslim behaviour from across the UK in the past week, a five-fold increase from the week before, its director Iman Atta told Reuters, describing Muslim communities as “terrorised.”

Anti-Muslim hate has been growing in the UK even before the start of the riots, and particularly after the start of the conflict in Gaza last year, the group says.

Over one in four in a survey of 550 British Muslims last month said they had faced an anti-Muslim hate incident in the last year, Tell MAMA said.

Amid all the tension, Muslim community leaders are advising calm, at a time when many young men in the community might feel tempted to respond.

Footage from Sky News earlier this week showed a large group of mostly Asian men with Palestinian flags gathering in an area of Birmingham following rumours of a far-right protest at the site, which did not materialise. Police said a man was assaulted and a pub window was smashed, and have charged one man for possession of an offensive weapon.

The rival, counter protests have included both White and non-White people describing themselves as anti-racist, anti-fascist or pro-Palestinian. Sometimes extreme left-wing anarchists have also taken part.

Community leaders are discouraging such gatherings.

“We don't want these counter protests or these large groups of young people turning up because that's the spark that we don't need ... so we need to be very careful,” said Sajjad Amin, trustee of the UKIM Khizra Mosque in Manchester, 30 miles (50km) from Liverpool.

Some Muslim leaders recounted tensions being defused.

Adam Kelwick, an imam at the temporarily-closed Abdullah Quilliam mosque, said it had been “prepared for the worst” when anti-immigration demonstrators gathered outside last week, but protesters calmed down after offers of food and dialogue.

“All it took was a few burgers and some chips and some genuine intention from our side,” he said, speaking from near the chained up gates of the Victorian-era mosque.

The Muslim population in England and Wales stood at 3.9 million people, or 6.5% of the total, as of 2021.

The heightened tension has unnerved both that community and others. On Tuesday evening rumours of a far-right gathering prompted shops on Lawrence Road to down their shutters early.

Local resident Santhosh Thomas, an ethnic Indian, helped chain up two large metal road signs to the fence of a nearby church, to discourage their use as weapons.

He said his brown skin made him a target, regardless of his religion. “It's not just Muslims ... everyone is scared,” Thomas said, as a police van arrived on Lawrence Road.

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Same way it doesn't feel like home for minority Christians and other religions in Muslim countries.

Let the racist protest stop

UK dey shut their door to African Christians, but leave am wide open to Muslims. Them go soon wake up.

Go back to Ur islamic country...Do your rubbish Shari'a in Ur country

Leave Christian countries alone ..

Christians are now getting wiser .

Oh.
Their plans was to make Liverpool feel like home by enacting the sharia law after a certain period of time.
If Muslims do not want the world to go against, they should revisit the cause of Islamic jihad and terrorism around the globe instead of using taqiya to support it.
The average person knows what will become of England if the brits do nothing about these Muslims.
I know that they are good Muslims out there, but right now, the world is scare of anything related to Islam.

UK will burn with her British empire for the atrocities and genocide it committed against biafrans from 1966 till date. this is just the beginning

Go your muslims shitholes you clowns

Na una dey shout majority since dey warm up for sharia in west

Why crying now

Ceasarceasar:
Go back to Ur islamic country...Do your rubbish Shari'a in Ur country

Leave Christian countries alone ..

Christians are now getting wiser .

If Qatar offer you visa shey u no go go?

Their home is in Yemen.

This is sad, but do Muslim majority countries let minorities feel at home too Hell No


Enjoy what you dish out

epondudu:
If Qatar offer you visa shey u no go go?

qatar don ever offer anybody citizenship before?

If dem no offer those useless visas who for help them build their shithole desert

Yemen sef get oil, how their life be since they don't offer visa

Terrorists

You guys are causing a lot of chaos

Sad

Then go to your home!

Ceasarceasar:
Go back to Ur islamic country...Do your rubbish Shari'a in Ur country

Leave Christian countries alone ..

Christians are now getting wiser .

See mumu dey claim 2 be wise

Britain was a major destabilization force in Nigeria culminating in backing Gowon to wage the Biafran war because they didn’t want igbos to secede from Nigeria and turn their amalgamation into a failed project like the way India seceded from Pakistan and today India is one of the most top ranking countries in the world. If not for British intervention Biafra would have been top ranking in science and technology while SW and North (Nigeria) would have been mired in abject poverty like today Pakistan so what Britain is going through today is karma and will get worse for them for the genocide they committed to stop Biafra from seceding from their useless, backward, racist creations all over the world of which Nigeria is unfortunately still part of

Even if the killer was not a Muslim but he sure me say that boy could have been groomed for that purpose by those guys.

Fighttillvictory:
UK will burn with her British empire for the atrocities and genocide it committed against biafrans from 1966 till date. this is just the beginning

Chai! The Hatred wen dey some People Blood no be here ooo. You mean say na UK say make your GrandPa plan Coup?
Na dem still say make una Start War?

Chai!
Well, to Liverpool Moslem and Moslem allover the World; "If you want Peace then Let Peace Reign in Your Heart".

Lol feel like home bi ti bawo niyen now ? How about our naija brothers who sold their homes in naija to move to this place where they are now not wanted ? They are stuck niyen now 👀

After using immigrants finish for years to develop your country.. doing all sorts of jobs that you can't dare to do do......you want them to go..

Not your fault..na their home country do dem dirty.


It's well.

The followers of "prophet" Sex Award Winner (SAW) Prison and Beatings Upon Him (PBUH) are finally getting a taste of their own medicine and they don't like it.

Really sad.

Fff

They will be running to UK, USA, FRANCE, GERMANY, CANADA, etc but they will never try approaching Embassies of IRAN, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT, etc all because of their own Sharia Laws. Silly people

What is happening all over the World?!
Let there be True Peace! Listening to One Love by Marley.