Study for EU’s fundamental rights agency finds 30% say they have been insulted and 2% physically assaulted in past 12 months
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Source/Credit: The Guardian
By Jon Henley | September 21, 2017
"[I]t was because of their name, skin colour or appearance."
Discrimination against Europe’s Muslims is increasing, with two in five (40%) saying they have faced unfair treatment when job- or house-hunting or accessing public services such as education or healthcare, according to the first report of its kind in a decade.
Nearly 30% of respondents in a survey said they had been insulted or called names and 2% had been physically assaulted in the previous 12 months.
The survey was carried out in late 2015 and early 2016 by the EU’s fundamental rights agency and involved 10,500 Muslims in 15 countries including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
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