Hate crimes against Muslims in London have nearly doubled in the last two years, the Daily Mail reports.
There was also a record 146 attacks on Muslims last month, with 122 in the fortnight after the Paris terror attacks.
Figures from the Metropolitan kpPolice, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, showed there had been 557 Islamophobic hate crimes in 2013; 624 in 2014; and up to November 24 this year, 878.
Incidents may involve a physical attack, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse, insults or hate mail.
There was a rise in anti-Muslim hate incidents following the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13.
This included a pregnant Muslim woman who was racially abused by a drunk man who called her a ‘terrorist’ and shouted ‘b**** get back to your country’ in a 15 minute rant on a London bus in Finsbury Park.
In the same week, a man hurled a jerry can full of petrol at Finsbury Park Mosque.
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In another incident after the Paris atrocities where 130 people were killed, a hijab-wearing woman was allegedly punched in the head and forced off a bus in South London by two other passengers who made Islamophobic comments.
In another incident on a London bus, in Brent, video footage shot by a passenger showed Simone Joseph, 36, shouting abuse at pregnant 34-year-old Hanane Yakoubi and her two friends.
She repeatedly called her an ‘ISIS b****’ and said ‘go back to your country’.
She shouted: ‘Talk your f****** language. Keep laughing. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. With your bombs hiding underneath your clothes. I don’t f****** like you people because you’re f****** rude.
‘You come to England and you have no f****** manners. Go back to your f****** country where they are bombing every day, don’t come here where we are free.’
At one point, Joseph threatened to ‘donkey kick’ pregnant Ms Yakoubi in the stomach.
Last month, she was given a 16 week jail sentence suspended for 18 months after admitting racially and religiously aggravated behaviour.
To tackle the rising problem, David Cameron has ordered police forces in England and Wales to keep track of hate crimes aimed specifically at Muslims and publish them in their crime statistics from next year.
The Prime Minister said this would help to gauge the scale of the problem and enable the police to allocate extra resources in high-risk areas, including certain schools or mosques.
