Gulwali Passarlay: To be honest, I’ve never been this afraid. I’ve lived in the UK for the last 17 years. I’ve been a citizen for the last five or so. As a refugee, as an asylum seeker, I saw the dehumanising language, the scapegoating. But now, I’m afraid for my kids. I told my wife, don’t go to the park. I had to travel from Bolton yesterday to take my girls to nursery because I was afraid for my wife to walk on the road. It’s scary, and I think there’s no legitimate concern when these attacks come out, the racists against Muslims and refugees. Sadly the media have been portraying it as though they were misinformed or there’s misinformation. Although if this guy who did this criminal act of killing these innocent children, which our sympathies should go to the family, even if he was a Muslim, even if he was a refugee, does not mean you have to go after the whole group and the whole ethnicity and the whole religion … So I feel like the media and some politicians have actually made it worse. I think they need to take some responsibility for their wording. I remember speaking to you before the election, asking about compassion and sadly things have turned out to be quite bad. Now, I think this was preventable and predictable because the way the media and politicians have been speaking about people like me, dehumanising me and thinking I am somehow the problem for the crimes and the social housing and so on and so forth. I want peace. I came to the UK for safety and protection, and this is not okay. This is not…these young people, we need to help these people. I see the inequality, the injustice in the UK. But I’m all for peaceful protest, come out and raise your concern. But breaking down and burning things and targeting mosques, targeting businesses. This is not the way to go.