"It is morally unacceptable that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, which are vast profit-making companies, socially engineer what is right and wrong to say in our society when they leave up inflammatory, highly socially divisive and openly bigoted views,” Fiyaz Mughal, director of Faith Matters, an interfaith organization which runs a helpline called Tell MAMA, told The Independent.

“These platforms have inserted themselves into our social fabric to make profit and cannot sit idly by and shape our futures based on ‘terms and conditions’ that are not fit for purpose.”
Mughal was speaking out against the absence of censorship on Twitter and Facebook that helped Islamophobia to flourish online, where anti-Muslim comments are proliferated, OnIslam.net reported.
According to an investigation by The Independent, Twitter and Facebook refuse to remove Islamophobic postings or suspend accounts despite being reported by anti-racism users.
Islamophobic posts, which call Muslims rapists, pedophiles and comparable to cancer, have dramatically increased over the past months, following heinous crimes committed in the name of Islam.
The emergence of the so-called Islamic State (ISIL) and killing of British hostages has also victimized UK Muslims.
The number of hate crimes against Muslims in London had risen by 65% between October 2013 and October 2014, according to the Metropolitan Police.
Hundreds of anti-Muslim hate offences have been carried out across UK in 2013, with Britain’s Metropolitan police recording an increase of 49% than 2012.
The Metropolitan Police recorded 500 Islamophobic offences from January to mid-November that year, compared with 336 offences in 2012 and 318 in 2011.