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During Friday’s instalment of the ITV show, Adil said it has ‘been going on for weeks now’ and ‘no one seems to be talking about it’
Good Morning Britain presenter Adil Ray revealed he had been threatened by social media trolls as he discussed the ‘deeply concerning’ rise in racist abuse.
During Friday’s instalment of the ITV show, Adil said it has ‘been going on for weeks now’ and ‘no one seems to be talking about it’.
Discussing the issue with co-host Kate Garraway, Adil, who was born in Yardley, said he’d had a woman message him yesterday to share her own harrowing experience.
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He said: “A woman messaged me yesterday and said in her town she received racial abuse as a Muslim woman and was scared to go out.
“People who work here, and several friends of theirs who are Muslim, don’t want to go to the mosque anymore.
“This is horrendous. Mosques, we know, have been attacked… The thing that strikes me about this is no one seems to be talking about it.
“These are anti-Muslim hate crimes. There doesn’t seem to be any politician that’s standing up and reassuring millions of Muslims in this country that the country is behind them.
“It’s been going on for weeks now and that’s deeply concerning.”
The Mirror reports it comes after he slammed the ‘nonsense’ trolling he and his colleagues Alex Beresford, Sean Fletcher and Ranvir Singh were subjected to every time they present on the ITV breakfast show.
Speaking to historian David Olusoga – who was left clinically depressed by the racism he had faced – Adil said: “There have been changes on-screen and we recognise that – I mean, we’re here right now.
“Even though it’s not permanent jobs, things have definitely changed.”
Ranvir Singh added: “You do get trolled for it – you get a lot of Twitter nonsense.
“You were reading out a lot this morning, I don’t know if you want to go into it.”
Adil replied: “Oh we do get trolled for it. I don’t want to go into it, but I know Alex Beresford and Sean Fletcher got it last week.
“We are part of the change. We do get grief on television, it’s part of the job.
“But what I’ve done over the past seven weeks on this show, is concentrate on the amount of love.
“I spend less time on social media and just learnt to ignore the minority views and embrace the love.”
Adil had previously said his hit comedy show Citizen Khan received more than 700 complaints and saw him accused of “making fun of Islam and stereotyping Asians”.
He said at the time: “I had death threats and to this day receive abuse on social media; namely, that I’m an ‘Uncle Tom.’
“All comedy relies to some extent on big characters and stereotype.”
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