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A research done by Stanford University in the USA has found that there has been a 18.9 per cent decline in the number of Islamophobia and hate crimes in the Merseyside area.
According to Munim Khan, the head of England’s first Mosque, believes that Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah has helped challenge negative perceptions of the Muslim community. He said that Salah is a positive role model in the community and has helped to break the barriers of negative perceptions that the fans and general public hold about the Muslim community.
Salah’s goal celebration regularly includes performing sujood, the Islamic act of prostration to God.
The report titled ‘Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes’ is the compiled research from four university professors is based on 936 county-month hate crime observations, 15 million tweets from British football fans, and an original survey experiment of 8,060 Liverpool fans. The report appears to support Khan’s view.
The report suggest that the decline of Islamophobia might be due to an increase of familiarity with Islamic. The findings of the research suggest that positive exposure to outgroup role models can reveal new information that humanizes the outgroup writ large.
Mohamed Salah, the 26-year-old, is one of the four Muslims in the Liverpool squad along with Sadio Mane, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri.
