#UNITEDAGAINSTH8 – TEN YEARS ON FROM 7/7 This series of infographics intends to capture the changing face of community relations a decade after 7/7. That tragic day captures how individuals from various faiths and nationalities died on a day that should have started like any other, with the humble commute to work. Atique Sharifi, 24, […]
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This report argues that the current strategy’s centralised and top-down deployment markedly reduces local capacity to find tailored solutions that make sense for a given community. The Prevent strategy’s move away [As Prevent Centralises, Community Engagement and Local Capacity To Implement Local Tailored Solutions Falls] from community engagement to a centralised approach is not likely […]
Continue ReadingNot enough Muslim women are involved in counter-extremism operations in the UK, say activists, a problem which could be leading to more women and teenage girls deciding to travel to Syria to join extremist groups. This week a UK family, comprising three sisters and nine children from Bradford, crossed the border into Syria without their […]
Continue ReadingFiyaz Mughal, the Director of Faith Matters speaks about the pushes and pulls of extremism and the way that ISIS and other extreme groups are reaching out to individuals and groups within the United Kingdom. Fiyaz outlines some of the background as to where 3 women and their 9 children may be, after travelling to […]
Continue ReadingWhen British people think about Muslims, terrorism often comes to mind. Amid a growing international concern about the Islamic State group (aka ISIS), a recent YouGov poll found that Britons associate followers of Islam with certain negative terms more often than positive ones. At the top of the list were the 12 percent of respondents […]
Continue ReadingWe have all seen the terrible impacts on communities of the nihilistic pull of ISIS. Yesterday, a group of 3 women and their children disappeared whilst returning from Saudi Arabia and are purported to be in Turkey, on their way to ISIS. Any theological material that undermines the rhetoric of ISIS whilst placing British Muslims […]
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This Saturday: British gangster-turned-Sufi Muslim Martin Askew to talk about his life following the screening of Snow in Paradise, a film he inspired Bucking the trend about negative Muslim stories in the press, actor Martin Askew will talk about his salvation from a life of crime through Islam at a special screening event at the […]
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We are aware of the following questionnaires being circulated in Buxton School in Leytonstone (Waltham Forest) and the questionnaires seemed to indicate that it is related to Prevent work. The project has been funded through the EU and through a call for proposals entitled, “Radicalisation Leading to Extremism.” The Prevent Steering Board of Waltham Forest […]
Continue ReadingBritish teenagers are increasingly lured by “Jihadi-lite” images of the Islamic State militant group on social media that give them a false sense of security, Faith Matters, a non-profit organization, told Sputnik. MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — In the recent months, the number of Britons trying to travel to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State has surged, which has triggered […]
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The killing of a man attending a talk by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and the further murder of a man shot in the head in a synagogue, raise the alarming spectre of a campaign possibly inspired by an ISIS or AL Qaeda sympathiser, within the Danish capital. Coming so close after the Charlie Hebdo […]
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