Islamophobic tweets ‘peaked in July’

Almost 7,000 “Islamophobic” tweets were sent, in English, every day in July worldwide, data seen by the BBC suggests.

Almost 7,000 “Islamophobic” tweets were sent, in English, every day in July worldwide, data seen by the BBC suggests.

This compared to 2,500 in April, Forty-nine words and hashtags were used as indicators of anti-Islamic tweets, by the think tank Demos.

Demos analyzed tweets recorded between March and July, and judged there to be 215,247 tweets – sent in English – that were “highly likely” to be anti-Islamic, derogatory or hateful.

It is noteworthy that the vast majority of tweets that could be located to Europe came from the United Kingdom, with other concentrations in the Netherlands, France and Germany.