South Asians in London fear |
Civil engineer Sushanta Das Gupta, who has a number of projects lined up on north London`s Finsbury Park, is tense hearing about how on June 19 night a van travelling struck a crowd outside the Muslim Welfare House on Seven Sisters Road. It was shortly after Londoners had finished offering their prayers at Finsbury Park mosque. Not only does he now fear that the business at approximately all the 59 takeaway Asian restaurants in that area will take a dip in the next few days, Das Gupta apprehends that hate crimes might rise further if law-keepers don`t handle the situation properly. Hate crimes, according to Das Gupta, are not new in London. But according to him, this incident has made people `a lot more scared` than what they were used to earlier. `The back-to-back terror attacks in London have unfortunately made many believe that all terrorists are Muslims. London-based atheist Bangladeshi blogger Arifur Rahman said that hate crimes between races are going to go up.
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