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The case of Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl strip-searched after being wrongly accused of possessing cannabis, has reignited debates over whether London's Metropolitan Police are racist, and reopened past wounds for many other targeted groups.

In an extensive review of its guidelines and practice, The New Arab examines how medical professionals working in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) have been blighted by institutional racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Muslim women have been at the brunt of systematic 'othering' by mainstream Western media. This treatment has been counterintuitive, both for Western policymakers and for Muslim women, who are ostracised from society.