UK-Based Think Tank Reports Massive “Anti-Hindu Hate” In British Schools

London:

A brand new report by an unbiased suppose tank primarily based in London has uncovered the extent of discrimination and bullying confronted by Hindu college students in UK colleges.

The report from the London-based Henry Jackson Society, commissioned by Charlotte Littlewood, a PhD candidate in Arab and Islamic Research with the College of Exeter, surveyed 988 Hindu dad and mom and located that 51 per cent of them reported that their youngsters had confronted discrimination in school.

Regardless of the excessive prevalence of discrimination reported by dad and mom, the research discovered that fewer than 1 per cent of faculties with Indian pupils reported any hate incidents. Moreover, solely 19 per cent of Hindu dad and mom surveyed believed that colleges had been in a position to determine anti-Hindu hate.

The incidents reported by dad and mom included “anti-Hindu slurs” directed at college students, with some youngsters experiencing such bullying for years. Littlewood spent 5 months on the report, throughout which she encountered one case wherein a pupil in East London needed to change colleges thrice on account of such bullying.

“We all know this occurred in an East London faculty which has many South Asian pupils. That’s disturbing in a rustic like ours,” mentioned Ms Littlewood. “We’re asking for a change within the coverage on bullying that colleges within the UK have, by way of this report. They need to have an annual report of incidents and the way they had been tackled.”

The report additionally detailed incidents involving college students as much as the age of twenty-two in faculties throughout the UK. In March, Karan Kataria, an Indian pupil finding out for a grasp’s diploma in legislation on the London College of Economics, alleged that he had confronted discrimination throughout his marketing campaign for the publish of Normal Secretary within the faculty.

“After being elected as an instructional rep inside his legislation faculty, I felt assured to face for the publish of Normal Secretary. In the course of the marketing campaign, there was a marketing campaign in opposition to me for being Hindu,” Mr Kataria mentioned. “We had been attempting to vary a story that was being instructed with tinted glasses on. Their opinions are opinions. Ours just isn’t?”

The Unbiased Faculties Council, an umbrella physique within the UK for varied colleges, was unable to touch upon the report’s revelations. Nevertheless, academics spoke out about incidents of hate, not simply in opposition to Hindu pupils but in addition in opposition to college students of assorted religions. They known as for higher instruments and coaching to assist determine and deal with such incidents.

The report, which claims to be the primary of its variety within the UK, shall be introduced to the Schooling Secretary together with its suggestions.