Fifty-seven percent of all hate crimes in Scotland are against Catholics — up 14% over the previous year. Said one government official: “Issues relating to Islamophobia and anti-semitism are given prominence, and rightly so, but the issue of anti-Catholicism needs a prominence it does not have.”
Anti-Catholic hate crimes in Scotland
Fifty-seven percent of all hate crimes in Scotland are against Catholics — up 14% over the previous year. Said one government official: “Issues relating to Islamophobia and anti-semitism are given prominence, and rightly so, but the issue of anti-Catholicism needs a prominence it does not have.”
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