#youaintnomuslimbruv

#YouAintNoMuslimBruv
By: Connor Mallen


On December 4th, in the Leytonstone Station of the London Underground, a video was recorded of a crazed man attempting to stab bystanders while yelling Allahu Akbar. As the man was being arrested by police, a bystander yells "You ain't no Muslim, Bruv," in reference to the man's violent actions The bystander says the phrase twice again in the video.

After the British newspaper The Daily Mail published the story and video, thousands began tweeting the phrase as a rally for their protests against Muslim terrorists. On December 5th, the day after the attack, the hashtag had been used more than 56,000 times, and by three days after the attack, the use had more than doubled. In addition to trending on Facebook, the hashtag's popularity was reciprocated by the BBC, the Australian ABC, and the Independent. The Prime Minister of the UK, David Cameron, used the phrase during a speech, and the video of his response was dispensed widely by many accounts.

This reformative movement is meant to show that although this attacker was screaming Allahu Akbar, which in Arabic essentially means god is great, that not all Muslims should be judged by the actions of a violent few. 

Gallup.com recently published a page talking about and describing Islamophobia in a statistically factual light.
Islamophobia: Gallup.com is where you can find all accurate charts and numbers of anything you could possibly want to find about the problem that #youaintnomuslimbruv is in combat of.

Like most hashtag movements, this one is only meant to spread awareness worldwide about the improper profiling of Muslims in western countries. While this problem could be solved by spreading awareness, it will likely have very little effect on people that fully believe false Muslim stereotypes in their heart. More statistical and factual evidence would have to be presented for this movement to have a larger impact because there is may huge things going against this movement, such as the fact that all notable terrorist armies in the world abide by some form of the Quran, which is the Islamic version of the bible.

This movement is similar to the Protestant Reformation in the sense that it is trying to change the way people see a religion. However, the difference lies in the fact #youaintnomuslimbruv is trying to change the views of people that don't follow the religion that it is defending. The Protestant Reformation was a movement that started as trying to change the practices of the Catholic church, where certain religious aspects were replaced by a ruler's hunger for power and wealth.

Sources

1. Hussey, Matthew. “#YouAintNoMuslimBruv - a Very British Hashtag Goes Viral after Terror Attack on London Underground.” The Next Web, TNW, 6 Dec. 2015, thenextweb.com/insider/2015/12/06/youaintnomuslimbruv-a-very-british-hashtag-goes-viral-after-terror-attack-on-london-underground/.
2. “Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Sentiment in the West.” Gallup.com, Gallup, INC, 2018, news.gallup.com/poll/157082/islamophobia-understanding-anti-muslim-sentiment-west.aspx.
3. LaForge, Patrick. “'You Ain't No Muslim, Bruv': Response to London Attack Inspires Hashtag.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/world/europe/london-stabbing-attack-muslim-bruv.html.