Guidance – Information needed about your anti-Muslim experiences
When filling the online form and providing information to us, please provide as much of the following details as possible as it helps with accurate data collection which can help to identify trends and produce meaningful statistics to hold public bodies accountable to address issues.
- Your contact details and whether we can contact you if we need to.
- Date, time and location (including geographical location of incident)
- Whether you have reported the incident elsewhere such as police (for hate crime) employer or service provider (for discrimination)
- Description of the incident such as whether it was a physical assault or name calling including how it took place e.g. online, on the bus, on the street, at work etc
- Information about the offenders (such as approximate ages, sex, ethnicity etc).
- Details about why your role as the person reporting such as whether you are the victim, you are reporting on behalf of victim, you are a witness or you are reporting on behalf of an organisation.
- Details about yourself if you have experienced the incident yourself or the victim’s details of you are reporting on behalf of someone else. This should include age, ethnicity, faith, sex, immigration status, geographical location and whether you have a disability.
- Describe any visible appearance such as skin colour / ethnicity and other markers that may have identified you as Muslim such headscarf, clothing, beard etc.
- Why you think the hostility was motivated by hatred because of your identity e.g. your religion and / or your race.
- Information about whether the victim was pregnant, accompanied by anyone else such as children or whether there were witnesses.
- Details about any evidence you have such as screenshots of online posts, emails, audio or visual recordings etc.
- The impact the incident had on you including any injuries and mental impact or damage to property.
- What you would like us do to – only record incident or you needed other support e.g. counselling, support to report to the police or referral to external legal advice.
