LONDON: Hate crimes against Muslims have soared within the UK this year, figures show. many anti-Muslim offences were meted out across the country in 2013, with Britain's biggest force, the Metropolitan police, recording five hundred Islamophobic crimes. several forces according a surge within the variety of anti-Muslim hate crimes once the murder of soldier Lee Rigby by 2 Muslim extremists in Woolwich, south-east London, in May.But the figures can be a lot of higher as nearly half the forty three forces in European nation and Wales didn't reveal what percentage hate crimes had targeted Muslims. Some forces admitted they didn't perpetually record the religion of a spiritual hate-crime victim.
Freedom of data requests were sent by the press agency to each constabulary in European nation and Wales. Of the forty three forces, twenty four provided figures on the amount of anti-Muslim crimes and incidents recorded. More information..