‘There is no safe space for me to be myself’: The British Muslim women targeted for their beliefs

For visibly Muslim women, Islamophobia is an ever-present issue both online and off. Saman Javed speaks to the women being targeted for their beliefs

(INDEPENDENT) “It’s one of the worst identities you could be,” says Aysha Yaqub* on being a Muslim woman in the UK. At 27-years-old, Yaqub has been on the receiving end of countless death threats and verbal abuse because of her religion. According to statistics from the Home Office, Muslims were the target of 2,703 religious hate crimes in the year ending March 2021 – 45 per cent of all those recorded.

MEND, a charity that seeks to..