Islam Awareness Week
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The Islamic Society of Britain initiated Islam Awareness Week in 1994, to raise awareness and remove misconceptions surrounding Islam. In 1997 the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia by the Runnymede Trust confirmed the existence of widespread prejudice (prejudice means that before you have analyzed or weighed the facts you make a judgment, in all likelihood most people were not prejudiced, rather simply judging the facts) and discrimination against Muslims in Britain. Their report, 'Islamophobia (this is not a real phobia, but rather an imagined fear) - a challenge for us all' (1997), launched by the Home Secretary at the House of Commons, proposed sixty recommendations, one of which was the desperate need for awareness and understanding of the true teachings of Islam. This was confirmed by the Commission’s second report on Islamophobia launched in 2004.
Since and before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the bombings of various European cities, the view has spread (the view has always been that Islam was spread via violence and the threat of violence) that Islam is a purely violent religion.[citation needed] Attempting to counter this idea by portraying Islam as tolerant and peaceful, Islam Awareness Week promotes social interaction between the Muslim and Western cultures.
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