Social media trace Australia Islamophobia

Rasa - Amid increasing anti-Muslim sentiments coupled with anti-terror police raids, a Facebook page has been launched to track Islamophobia in Australia, encouraging the Muslim minority to report attacks on them.

News ID: 1209

Date: 22 September 2014 - 21:14

RNA - According to onIslam news portal, the page which was launched last week was followed by one of the biggest anti-terror raids in Australian history in which 15 people were arrested from north-western Sydney.

Attracting more than two thousand followers the page urged Australian Muslims to report incidents through sending a private "message" to the page or by emailing it at the address given.

Victims of the anti-Muslim sentiments also have to select the category of the attack from a list of Islamophobia incidents categories provided by the page.

A few days after launching the page, several Islamophobic attacks were reported by Facebook users.

The anti-Muslim attacks include "a mosque being defaced in Queensland, a senior scholar and member of the Australian National Imams Council detained for over 2.5 hours at Sydney airport, direct threats issued against the Grand Mufti of Australia," the page said.

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