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"...Among other things, the neighbourhood is renowned for the Shomrim community patrol, a sophisticated neighbourhood watch of 70 to 80 Jewish volunteers who protect Stamford Hill — for both Jew and Muslim alike.
Now the Muslim community is prepared to return the favour if a protest organized by an anti-Semitic right-wing group goes ahead this weekend.
“Our community will all be joined together hand in hand,” says Eusoof Amerat, one of the founders of the North London Mosque.
He and his fellow Muslims intend to rally against the “Liberate Stamford Hill” protest planned for Sunday. The organizer of the protest is Joshua Bonehill, an ultra-nationalist who aspires to end the “Jewification of Stamford Hill.”
Following the extremist-inspired hacking death of Rigby in Greenwich, the backlash against the Muslim community was swift and vicious.
Pig’s heads and blood were thrown at the doors of several mosques. A north London Somali Muslim centre was burned to the ground — a crime police suspect was tied to the nationalist English Defence League — and a Muslim student was fatally stabbed in what Essex police believe may have been a hate crime.
In 2013 London’s Metropolitan Police tallied 549 Islamophobic offences in the city, a number that rose to 611 last year. Anti-Semitism is also on the rise. Last year the police tracked 400 anti-Semitic offences in London, up from 169 a year earlier.
Concerned about the violent anti-Islam attacks, members of the North London Mosque reached out to their 30,000 Hasidic Jewish neighbours for help. Rather than have them “think there are radicalized people” in the mosque, said Amerat, “we said, ‘OK brother, let’s work together.’
“Trust can only be built by working together.”
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"...Among other things, the neighbourhood is renowned for the Shomrim community patrol, a sophisticated neighbourhood watch of 70 to 80 Jewish volunteers who protect Stamford Hill — for both Jew and Muslim alike.
Now the Muslim community is prepared to return the favour if a protest organized by an anti-Semitic right-wing group goes ahead this weekend.
“Our community will all be joined together hand in hand,” says Eusoof Amerat, one of the founders of the North London Mosque.
He and his fellow Muslims intend to rally against the “Liberate Stamford Hill” protest planned for Sunday. The organizer of the protest is Joshua Bonehill, an ultra-nationalist who aspires to end the “Jewification of Stamford Hill.”
Following the extremist-inspired hacking death of Rigby in Greenwich, the backlash against the Muslim community was swift and vicious.
Pig’s heads and blood were thrown at the doors of several mosques. A north London Somali Muslim centre was burned to the ground — a crime police suspect was tied to the nationalist English Defence League — and a Muslim student was fatally stabbed in what Essex police believe may have been a hate crime.
In 2013 London’s Metropolitan Police tallied 549 Islamophobic offences in the city, a number that rose to 611 last year. Anti-Semitism is also on the rise. Last year the police tracked 400 anti-Semitic offences in London, up from 169 a year earlier.
Concerned about the violent anti-Islam attacks, members of the North London Mosque reached out to their 30,000 Hasidic Jewish neighbours for help. Rather than have them “think there are radicalized people” in the mosque, said Amerat, “we said, ‘OK brother, let’s work together.’
“Trust can only be built by working together.”
Jews and Muslims in London neighbourhood build trust by working together
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