According to a recent poll, 75 percent of Muslims in the United Kingdom fear for their safety. British far-right rioters have carried out attacks on Islamic institutions across the country.

At the end of July and beginning of August, riots by far-right groups broke out in cities across England and Northern Ireland, sending shockwaves throughout the country.

The so-called English Defence League (EDL), a violent far-right organisation, launched anti-Islam rallies and Islamophobic attacks and sent its thugs to various British cities after false rumours emerged of a knife attack on an illegal Muslim asylum seeker, all of which turned out to be false.

Three-quarters of Muslims in Britain are concerned about their safety following anti-Islamic riots, according to a survey by the Muslim Women’s Network.

Only 16 percent of survey participants said they felt the same way before the violence broke out.

Almost 20 percent of respondents said they had experienced hostility in Britain even before the first riots on July 30 in Southport, which later spread to other towns.

Muslim women told local media that they felt there was an anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant atmosphere among officials and authorities in Britain.

They said the current climate had created fear among most Muslims in the UK.

Among Muslims in Britain, there is “almost a feeling that the police are not protecting us,” says 26-year-old student Lila Tamea.

False information was spread on social media that the stabbing of the three young girls was attributed to a Muslim immigrant.

However, it later emerged that the suspected attacker in Southport was British-born Axel Rudakubana, whose Christian parents came from Rwanda, where the majority of the population is Roman Catholic and only about one percent are Muslim.

Amina Atiq, a 29-year-old poet, told local media: “I felt it was unfair that we as a Muslim family had no chance to mourn the three little girls. Because shortly afterwards, we felt that we ourselves were more suspect for the attack.”

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