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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Muslims in Europe experiencing ‘worrying surge’ in racism, survey finds

A rally by German right-wing party Alternative fur Deutschland
A rally by German anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland. The rates of reported discrimination appeared closely linked to the rise of the far right. Photograph: Jens Schlueter/EPA

Muslims across Europe are grappling with a “worrying surge” of racism that is being fuelled in part by “dehumanising anti-Muslim rhetoric”, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as it published a survey in which nearly half of the Muslim respondents said they had recently experienced discrimination.

Published on Thursday by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the survey of 9,600 Muslims across 13 member states found that racism and discrimination threads through most aspects of their lives.

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