Hundreds of children were evacuated from a Muslim-ethos school on the last day of term after the school received a bomb threat.
MEND, a non-profit tackling Islamophobia, wrote on X: “Ask yourself what the reaction would be if 450 children at any other school were threatened this way. The quiet tells you something about whose safety is treated as a story and whose is treated as background noise.
“West Midlands Police logged it as ‘harassment’,” they added. “It should be investigated as a hate crime targeting Muslim children, especially as there had been other recent incidents against staff and the school.”
West Midlands police said: “Officers attended and were satisfied there wasn’t a credible threat. The bomb hoax and a related offence of harassment are now both being investigated by officers.”
Hate crimes against Muslims are at a record high across the UK and represent almost half of all religious hate crimes recorded. Between March 2024 and March 2025, there were 4,478 hate crimes directed against Muslims, up a fifth from the year before.