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    Mountain Muslim

    Jan 21, 2022 4 minutes

    HAROON MOTA is a 36-year-old marathon runner and mountaineer. In 2020, he founded the hiking group Muslim Hikers as a way of encouraging other Muslims to keep active during lockdown, and he’s since led hundreds of people on walks across the UK.

    At the end of last year, the group posted photos of its Christmas Day walk over the Great Ridge in the Peak District. Its response to some of the racist and Islamophobic comments it received across social media went viral, leading to a wave of media interest and headlines on TV and radio and in the national press. Haroon tells us about his personal journey into hiking, why the recent abuse has backfired on the

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