article_snippet.sent: Other forces categorise Other forces as hate crimes or specific offences such as assault or grievous bodily harm.
article_snippet.sent: Charities say there has been a steady rise of anti-Muslim hate crimes since 9/11.
article_snippet.sent: But after incidents such as the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby outside Woolwich barracks in 2013 and the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, there are spikes in incidents in the UK, say experts.
article_snippet.sent: But in 2013-14, police recorded 44,480 hate crimes, an increase of five per cent over the same period the previous year across England and Wales.
article_snippet.sent: The vast majority – 37,484 – were race-hate crimes.
article_snippet.sent: Tell Mama, a Government-backed Islamic group, said that more than half of all the victims (54 per cent) of Islamophobic incidents are women, perhaps because more than half of all the victims (54 per cent) of Islamophobic incidents ‘appear more Islamic’, wearing the burka or headscarf.
article_snippet.sent: Tell Mama figures show that in the ten months after the Lee Rigby attack, a total of 734 incidents were reported to the organisation – an increase of 20 per cent on the same period the previous year.
article_snippet.sent: The most serious incident is believed to be the frenzied knife attack on Saudi Arabian student Nahid Almanea, 31, in Colchester, Essex, in June last year.
article_snippet.sent: Detectives believe Detectives was attacked because Detectives was wearing Islamic clothes.