كلفت إدارة الشرطة البريطانية شرطة "ليفربول" بالتدخل لحماية الطالبات المسلمات بالمواصلات التي تقوم بنقلهن إلى المدارس، على إثر اعتداء أخير تعرضت له بعض الطالبات من قِبَل غير المسلمات بحافلة نقل الطالبات الخاصة بمدرسة "هولي لودج للبنات" غرب "ديربي".
وقد شارك سائق الحافلة في تلك الإساءة، بتركه الطالبة دون السماح لها بالصعود، والامتناع عن توصيلها خشية اندلاع المزيد من المشاحنات بين الفتيات.
وقد أمرت الشرطة بالتحقيق في الحادث عقب قيام الأسرة المسلمة باللجوء للمجلس الإسلامي بـ"ليفربول"، وقام المجلس الإسلامي بإبلاغ الشرطة، التي طالبت رجالها بالصعود للحافلات بالطرق للتأكد من توقف هذه الممارسات، والتنبيه على الطلاب أن الممارسة العنصرية تُعَد عملاً إجراميًّا يعاقِب عليه القانون.
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Police to ride school buses to save girls from racism
POLICE officers are being drafted on to Merseyside school buses to stop Muslim pupils being racially abused.
The problems centre around verbal attacks on hijab- wearing girls at West Derby’s Holly Lodge Girls’ College. Last night, bus drivers who are accused of refusing to stop for the veil-wearing Muslim pupils in order to avoid trouble were also branded “racist”.
The Daily Post can reveal police officers will now board the buses to protect the school girls from the “racist” taunts of other passengers.
A probe was launched after concerned female members of Liverpool’s Muslim community highlighted the abuse of pupils travelling to Holly Lodge to police.
Police chiefs have since held talks with travel authority Merseytravel and the Muslim community.
Complaints are contained within a Merseyside Police Authority report that “young Muslim women are targeted by racists on the way to Holly Lodge School” and “often buses won’t stop” for the girls “easily identified by their veils”.
Merseyside police last night said community police officers would now board buses in the area to deter the racism and would work with city schools to remind pupils “racial abuse is a criminal offence”.
But police stressed the issue of drivers failing to stop for the girls was a matter for Merseytravel.
Merseytravel said it condemned “all acts of racism” and, after probing the claims, has “now drawn up an action plan to deal with and prevent any further incidents”. It was not, however, able to release details of the measures which might be implemented.