"Threats and hate speech against Muslim Australians have surged in the wake of the Bondi beach attack, with one mosque receiving dozens of offensive phone calls and reports of people being targeted in the street. As Australia's Jewish community deals with trauma from the attack that killed 15 people at a Hanukah event, religious leaders say societal and political divisions has led to other groups being targeted by hatred."
"The Islamophobia Register Australia received 126 reported hate incidents in the week after the 14 December shooting 10 times more than it had received each of the two weeks prior. A similar surge in incidents has been recorded separately by the Australian National Imams Council . Its vice-president, Ahmed Abdo, said Muslim women have been verbally abused and had been subjected to hand gestures imitating guns."
Threats and hate speech against Muslim Australians surged after the Bondi beach attack, with one mosque receiving dozens of offensive phone calls and people targeted in the street. The Islamophobia Register Australia received 126 reported hate incidents in the week after the 14 December shooting, ten times the number from each of the two previous weeks. The Australian National Imams Council recorded a similar surge. Muslim women have been verbally abused and subjected to gun-imitating hand gestures. Butchered pig heads were left at a Muslim cemetery entrance, mosques and an Islamic school were vandalised, and calls circulated for a Middle East bashing at Cronulla beach.
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