Islamophobia in Australia Report - 2 (2016-2017)

Download or read book Islamophobia in Australia Report - 2 (2016-2017) written by Charles Sturt University and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamophobia Register provides a platform for people from across Australia to report any form of anti-Muslim abuse, so that incidents of Islamophobia can be analysed to help inform community awareness and prevention. This report analyses incidents from the two-year period of 2016-2017, including verbal and physical anti-Muslim abuse and denigration of Muslim identity, and compares findings from the previous report. The findings show how Islamophobia operates in Australia and highlights the gendered nature of this issue, with women predominantly the victims (72%) and perpetrators largely men (71%). Women and girls are a vulnerable group: 96% were wearing a headscarf, 57% were unaccompanied and 11% were with their children at the time of the incident. Another concern, 60% of incidents occurred in guarded or patrolled public areas such as shopping centres. Though 41% of non-online incidents were reported by witnesses rather than victims, most bystanders did not intervene.