Hard-hitting film on Islamophobic attacks 'promotes fear'

Tell Mama and Muslim groups says scenes of hate crimes in short film The Martyrs are 'sensationalist' Muslim groups have demanded the withdrawal of a hard-hitting short film made to help tackle Islamophobic hate crimes, protesting that it promotes violence and fear. The Martyrs, a four-minute film shot on location in west London in the wake of the Christchurch shootings, graphically dramatises three real-life Islamophobic crimes: a stabbing, an acid attack and the kicking in the stomach of a pre...