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LGBTQI Muslims: The Unspoken Taboo
May 30, 2018 By Faith Matters

LGBTQI Muslims: The Unspoken Taboo

In recent years, there’s been a significant rise in homophobic hate crime in the UK. According to the latest figures in fact, one in four members of the LGBTQI community have been victim to hate crime as a result of their sexual orientation. As with any form of hate crime, the emotional, psychological and physical […]

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Hafiz Hamid Raza – the Sialkot Anti-Ahmadi Mosque Inciter, Spoke in the UK in 2014
May 27, 2018 By Faith Matters

Hafiz Hamid Raza – the Sialkot Anti-Ahmadi Mosque Inciter, Spoke in the UK in 2014

Hafiz Hamid Raza, the Sialkot Imam who can be heard callously enjoying the destruction of the Ahmadi mosque, (which can be heard in the background), visited the United Kingdom and spoke at the Khatame Nabuwat conference in Derby in 2014. We have listed the video below and which confirms his entry into the United Kingdom. […]

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We Welcome the Landmark Ruling Against Alison Chabloz
May 25, 2018 By Faith Matters

We Welcome the Landmark Ruling Against Alison Chabloz

Today is a landmark judgment that has been brought against Alison Chabloz who was convicted of two counts of causing obscene material to be sent and one of sending obscene material. These incidents occurred in 2016. It is another line that is drawn on those who think that freedom of expression entitles them to make grossly […]

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When Twitter Gives a Platform & a Blue Tick to a Violence Sympathising Extremist
May 25, 2018 By Faith Matters

When Twitter Gives a Platform & a Blue Tick to a Violence Sympathising Extremist

You can imagine our shock when we realised this evening that an Islamist extremist who lauded the brutal murder of Glasgow shopkeeper, Asad Shah, was on Twitter. Worse still, he had a ‘verified’ blue tick next to him, giving him some legitimacy in the eyes of member of the public. The individual, Khalid Hussain Rizvi […]

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Exclusive – An Alliance of Groups that Should Worry Us in the UK
May 23, 2018 By Faith Matters

Exclusive – An Alliance of Groups that Should Worry Us in the UK

Faith Matters has been at the vanguard of writing about entryism by far right groups from Poland, who are seeking to access members of settled Polish communities in the United Kingdom. The aim is pretty simple. With over 700,000 settled members of Polish communities in the country, they make an accessible and ready pool of potential […]

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Janusz Korwin-Mikke – Speaking in London. The Worrying Trend of Entryism into Polish Communities
May 22, 2018 By Faith Matters

Janusz Korwin-Mikke – Speaking in London. The Worrying Trend of Entryism into Polish Communities

This Sunday, Janusz Korwin-Mikke will be speaking in London in Hyde Park. Previously a member of the European Parliament, he is no stranger to controversy. Korwin-Mikke has previously stated that Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust. Korwin-Mikke will be returning to speak in London again on the 8th of July with one Stanislaw Michalkiewicz. Michalkiewicz has […]

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Why the Italian Elections Still Matter, – Bethany Elliott,  Political Researcher
May 17, 2018 By Faith Matters

Why the Italian Elections Still Matter, – Bethany Elliott, Political Researcher

On 13th May 2018, Luigi di Maio, leader of the populist Five Star movement, addressed the press to inform them that he had agreed upon a coalition with the right-wing League party[1]. While negotiations as to who will lead this coalition remain unfinished, di Maio noted that it had been a “productive day” in steps […]

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FAITH, HOPE AND CLARITY The Reintegration of Terrorist Offenders after Custody
May 14, 2018 By Faith Matters

FAITH, HOPE AND CLARITY The Reintegration of Terrorist Offenders after Custody

Report by Ian Acheson, Former Prison Governor and Reviewer of Islamist Extremism in Prisons, Makes the Case. This report – “Faith, Hope and Clarity”, commissioned by Faith Matters, and published today makes the case that Muslim communities, working in a unique new partnership with statutory services, can reduce risk of released extremist prisoners re-offending through a community re-integration […]

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Paris knife attacker was French citizen born in Chechnya
May 13, 2018 By Faith Matters

Paris knife attacker was French citizen born in Chechnya

An attacker who stabbed and killed a 29-year-old in central Paris on Saturday (May 12) night was a naturalised Frenchman born in Russia’s Chechnya region in 1997, judicial sources said on Sunday. Rough cut (no reporter narration). The aftermath of a fatal attack on Paris on Saturday night (12 May). A 29-year-old man was killed […]

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Germany’s far-right AfD helping make anti-Semitism ‘presentable’ – official
May 4, 2018 By Faith Matters

Germany’s far-right AfD helping make anti-Semitism ‘presentable’ – official

A senior German government official accused the opposition far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of helping make anti-Semitism “presentable” again in Germany by challenging a longtime consensus about how to deal with its Nazi past. Felix Klein, who holds a newly created government post tasked with fighting anti-Semitism, said in remarks to online news site […]

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