SINGAPORE: Shereen Williams, a Singaporean, has been particularly tense during the past week due to the anti-immigrant riots that have spread throughout the United Kingdom; this has been especially true since she is Muslim.
“When you are a visible minority living in a nation where some individuals don’t think twice about hitting or spitting on you… I always have my guard up,” the 42-year-old Welsh resident said.
She said she has become “a bit more nervous” about seemingly insignificant things like going out to lunch or strolling down a pavement.
“It only takes one person to act that way to endanger your life,” stated Mrs. Williams, the chief executive of the independent Welsh public organisation, the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru. She is one of the thousands of Singaporeans residing in the UK; some of them expressed worries to CNA regarding the rising hostilities in their country.
On July 30, the unrest began, one day after a knife attack at a dance class in the town of Southport, which is close to Liverpool, claimed the lives of three girls. The suspect was later identified as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, born in Wales. His parents had moved to Britain from Rwanda, which has very few Muslims.
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