UK Muslims and Jews team up against hate crime

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Thursday 29 Jan 2015 - 14:04 Makkah mean time-9-4-1436 London (IINA) - Muslims and Jews living in the same North London neighbourhood are making a stand together against hate crime amid concerns of an increased threat to both communities in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, al Jazeera reported. Jewish communities in the UK have been on a heightened state of alert since a siege orchestrated by a gunman at a kosher supermarket in the French capital left four hostages dead. The government also pledged police support for mosques amid reports of an increase in anti-Muslim hate crime following the linked attack by gunmen claiming allegiance to Al-Qaeda terrorist group on the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. "The Jewish community and the Muslim community are facing difficult times at the moment, but it is not a case of them or us. We are all in the same boat," Munaf Zeena, chairman of the North London Muslim Community Centre, told Al Jazeera. SM/IINA