CAGE organised joint event with European CSO's is now underway at the @OSCE Human Dimensions Conference. The conference will explore how governments across Europe legitimise and often, actively produce islamophobia
@OSCE CAGE Outreach Coordinator @shezanahafiz opened the event with an overview of disturbing trends across Europe, including the rise of the far right and more generally, increasingly authoritarian policy making. Each time, Muslims are scapegoated and portrayed as security threats
@OSCE Nehal Abdallah of @SafeguardChild based in Austria, describes the miscarriages of justice that took place during the coordinated police raids of Operation Luxor in Nov 2020. She shares witness testimonies of children and families that were violated. Zero charges, 2 years on
@OSCE @SafeguardChild Worryingly even children were not spared from the trauma of Police raids and brutality. In total, 62 children between the ages of 10 days and eighteen years were victimised. Joint report by @UK_CAGE and @SafeguardChild discusses details cage.ngo
@OSCE @SafeguardChild Lamies Nassri of @cedarkobenhavn which is based in Denmark shares a briefing on the political consensus that has emerged in the country in how to engage with the 'Muslim' and 'immigrants' problem
@OSCE @SafeguardChild @cedarkobenhavn Denmark has an unusual yet very revealing official designation of segments of its citizens as 'non-Western'. There is also another category called MENAPT that encompasses Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey (all Muslim majority regions/countries)
Austrian representative to the OSCE comments on @SafeguardChild presentation about Operation Luxor and restates tropes about Muslims that claiming that the government is pursuing 'political Islamists' and not Muslims. Similar to what Blair, Macron, Trump and Bush all claimed
To discuss Islamophobia in France, @imzalene provides a briefing based on his work with @CoordinationCLS
As in Denmark, @CoordinationCLS reports on a political consensus in France on Muslims - there is no public space where any fairness or equality can be shown towards Muslim minorities unless they first surrender their identity and religious values
The final presentation by @LighthouseNGO of the UK discusses the UK government and its participation in enabling Islamophobia
The official representative of Denmark to the @OSCE comments to clarify that an earlier participant who made a comment was not in fact an official rep
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