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Rule of Law, Equality and Discrimination and Islamophobia August 2018

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Martin Luther King Jr once wrote in Strive Toward Freedom (1958), "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."  In the United Kingdom this summer, in the months of July and August, there has been a tremendous heat wave tearing through the nation and another wave has also been affecting the people of the nation - a wave of racism, bigotry and discrimination.     Not only has there been a rise in temperature to 34 degrees Celsius, there has been a rise of anti-immigrant  organisations  campaigning for colonialist rights long-gone, with far-right  radicalist  ideologies. The problems people have with different cultures and faiths stems from self-hatred and ignorance, which then is expressed externally, to incite bullying, racial dominancy and a social self-interest.  Organisations  like, Neo-Nazism, Britain First, UKIP and National Front.    In France (2011) and now Denmark (2018) as well as 7 o