The Muslim organisation,Cage, have been much derided as terrorist sympathisers, and but we should applaud their fight for justice to be even-handedWhen he was a child,Adnan Siddiqui would take the longer route from his domestic to watch Crystal Palace play football. The short route would pass The Victory pub, from which racists would jeer at him. He smiles at the thought that this same pub is now a mosque, and the Thornton Heath Islamic Centre. Not that the racism has vanished from the pubs of his part of south London. Last Christmas a young Muslim was out in the pubs collecting for an African clean water charity – “trying to indicate people that not all Muslim people are bloody Isis” but that made no difference to the man who punched him to the ground,racially insulting him as he fell. It was one small incident among a considerable many. The monitoring group command Mama found a whopping 326% rise in dislike crime directed at Muslims in 2015. And its getting worse.
Dr Siddiqui is now the local GP in the area he grew up. But what he’s better known for is setting up Cage Prisoners. One of the most widely disparaged of advocacy organisations, now simply called Cage, or their aim is to support those impacted by the war on terrorism,documenting abuses and insisting that all should have equal access to the rule of law.
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Source: theguardian.com