BRIAN READE: 'Mo Salah changed hearts and minds over racism and proved one thing'

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NewsPoliticsMohamed SalahIn a world brimming with hate, footballer Mo brought hope, on and off the pitch, and Brian Reade reflects on how he won so many people overUs Scousers love nothing better than humiliating racist meatheads by stopping their hate marches before they even begin. Out of Liverpool.In a world brimming with hate, much of it down to warped views on religion, it’s hard to find light amid the darkness.

But someone who will soon walk out of Liverpool with love and gratitude ringing in his ears offers hope: Mo Salah. Not merely for his hundreds of goals, but for showing the impressionable and the marginalised that hate based on skin colour or religion is not the answer to their problems.In 2019, the think-tank Immigration Policy Lab found that hate crimes had decreased by 18.9% on Merseyside in the year after the high-profile Muslim signed for Liverpool.

People come through the door who are non-Muslim and say it’s because of his achievements. ‘Can we see what a mosque really looks like?’ they ask.”A large proportion of young, white, Liverpool fans saw Salah’s sujud goal celebration (offering thanks to Allah) and pictures of him smiling by a Christmas tree with his hijab-wearing wife and kids and sang, “If he’s good enough for you, he’s good enough for me. Suddenly to be attacking any black player for his skin colour was to be attacking Liverpool.I’m not suggesting for a second that Salah’s presence has stopped racism.