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Guess how much funding is going to go to protecting Mosques
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The government has had a scheme since 2016 to fund security for places of worship and in October they added an extra £10 million funding for Muslim community centres, bringing it up to £40 million a year.
Google is your friend and this whole 'Jews are the special minority' shtick you push is getting old.
But 10 is less than 250, isn't it? By geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml's figure, that's £2.50 per Muslim vs £833.33 per Jew. From just the numbers, it does seem like Jews are a higher priority.
The announcement follows an increase in antisemitic hate crimes, including the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, north London, in April and an arson attack at a former synagogue in Whitechapel, central London, in May.
There was a third guy stabbed which is conveniently left out of the "antisemitic stabbing". Guess his faith.
There's 4 million Muslims in the UK and 300.000 Jews. But somehow Jews are getting much more funding despite being in much less danger.
There was a third guy stabbed which is conveniently left out of the “antisemitic stabbing”. Guess his faith.
The stabbing of the two Jewish men in Golders Green was clearly driven by antisemitism, though. He tried to stab a Muslim friend before travelling 8 miles without stabbing anyone to a famously Jewish part of London and stabbing two visibility Jewish men. The fact he tried to stab someone who is a Muslim doesn't mean the other attacks weren't driven by antisemitism.
The stabbing was done by a man who was very clearly mentally ill and was just released from a mental institution.
He tried to stab a Muslim friend
He literally stabbed the guy. What do you mean "tried to"?
before travelling 8 miles without stabbing anyone to a famously Jewish part of London and stabbing two visibility Jewish men.
8 whole miles? Is real life like GTA where your wanted level disappears if you travel 8 miles and everyone forgets about your crimes if you don't get caught?
He literally stabbed the guy. What do you mean “tried to”?
The friend fended off the attack.
8 whole miles? Is real life like GTA where your wanted level disappears if you travel 8 miles and everyone forgets about your crimes if you don’t get caught?
Now you're being a prick. If he was stabbing people only because of his mental illness, then why didn't he stab anyone travelling between Southwark and Golders Green? Did it conveniently only reactivate when he saw man wearing kippah.
The friend fended off the attack.
Source? Reports say he got stabbed but got off with minor injuries. It is sill proscecuted as attempted murder.
If he was stabbing people only because of his mental illness, then why didn’t he stab anyone travelling between Southwark and Golders Green?
Because he took the subway wich doesn't stop every mile.
And I just quickly looked it up and it seems it's a direct subway line from Northern Line Borough to Brent Cross station. He essentially stepped out of the station and was at the next attack location.
Did it conveniently only reactivate when he saw man wearing kippah.
If he got off at Golders Green and were to stab people at random, is there like, a certain demographic he'd be likely to stab there?
Source? Reports say he got stabbed but got off with minor injuries. It is sill proscecuted as attempted murder.
It is alleged Suleiman was armed with a knife and “tried to stab Mr Hussein” in his upper body, but his friend “fended off the attack”.
And I just quickly looked it up and it seems it’s a direct subway line from Northern Line Borough to Brent Cross station. He essentially stepped out of the station and was at the next attack location.
He tried to stab his friend at around 8AM and didn't arrive in Golders Green until after 11. Did he not see anyone for 2-3 hours while taking the London Underground on a weekday?
but his friend “fended off the attack”.
The friend did get stabbed though and was left with injuries from it. Fending off the brunt of the attack doesn't make the attack less attack'y
He tried to stab his friend at around 8AM and didn’t arrive in Golders Green until after 11. Did he not see anyone for 2-3 hours while taking the London Underground on a weekday?
The guy is mentally ill. He was just released from a mental ward. Maybe he was hiding. Maybe he randomly decided to go eat a Kebab. If he was targeting Jews we'd have seen a manifesto and his wall plastered with Swastikas. And also he'd be screaming it from the rooftops
Because in an actual targeted stabbing you don't need to guess the motive of someone with a mental illness by connecting all the dots. They'll make it clear.
The friend did get stabbed though and was left with injuries from it. Fending off the brunt of the attack doesn’t make the attack less attack’y
I haven't seen anything saying he actually got stabbed, only that there was an attempt and he sustained minor injuries feeding it off. That could mean anything from the knife grazing him to him breaking his nose in the struggle.
The guy is mentally ill
Mentally ill people are still capable of hate crimes.
The acquaintance was a attacked by a knife and received injuries, wither they were from a stabbing or slashing seems a pedantic argument to me, the attacker was suffering from a psychotic break and was attacking people of many religions, to cherry-pick parts of his rampage and assign him motives he himself has never espoused is obviously driven by political agendas and intended to push certain narratives, not to show the actual truth of the events
That could mean anything from the knife grazing him to him breaking his nose in the struggle.
He was attacked with a knife and has a murder charge for it. You don't get those for no reason
Mentally ill people are still capable of hate crimes.
Sure so find me the part where he said he did it because he hated Jews.
Your argument is "Any person who is attacked and happens to be Jewish = antisemitism hate crime"
Mentally ill people are not often capable of logical rationalisation. You appear to be trying to rationalise irrational actions.
1 attack does not equate to a national rise in hate crimes either.
So this money is shared between faith groups? People of Jewish faith get £250mil for themselves and I imagine more over the next few years.
They do indeed sound like the ‘special’ minority. Maybe it’s all the government lobbying (meddling) Isreal does to get them special treatment.
You can’t ignore the fact Muslims always have especially more recently been at the receiving end of a lot of unjustified hate. Where is their additional hundreds of millions in funding?
No, the £40 million is for Muslim community centres, it's just part of a larger scheme. I don't know how you got to that reading.
They do indeed sound like the ‘special’ minority. Maybe it’s all the government lobbying (meddling) Isreal does to get them special treatment.
You understand that this is a deeply fucked up thing to say, right? There has been a genuine rise in antisemitic hate crime in the UK and the idea that the governments actions to address that must be because of Israel not only makes Israel look good, it unjustly links British Jews to Israel.
You can’t ignore the fact Muslims always have especially more recently been at the receiving end of a lot of unjustified hate. Where is their additional hundreds of millions in funding?
I agree that the government isn't doing anywhere near enough to protect Muslims, but that isn't the question I was responding to. It was about funding for Mosque security with the implication that it was 0, which it's not.
You literally said to fund places of worship. I didn’t realise that was a Muslim exclusive term.
Look at the amount of funding that goes to political parties coming from Isreal not just in the Uk but globally. How was this cash injection affected policy? I’d argue looking at the UK and US that the effect is huge. If it wasn’t a thing there wouldn’t have been a debate about it in parliament last month.
If even you can admit they’re not doing enough to support a faith who have been the target of hate crimes since the early 2000s you can’t really be defensive when someone calls you out on the funding discrepancy.
How about no?
How about we try to teach people to be less hateful and teach them love and understanding?
Government is the one to hate, not the regular folk who are simply different and wanna live their lives
I didnt read the article, but yeah
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2026
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