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Pakistan: Islamists call for Dutch envoy’s expulsion over cartoons
August 30, 2018 By Faith Matters

Pakistan: Islamists call for Dutch envoy’s expulsion over cartoons

An Islamist party in Pakistan called for the expulsion of the Dutch ambassador on Wednesday as it launched a protest against a far-right Dutch politician’s plan for a cartoon competition featuring caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Several thousand activists gathered in the eastern city of Lahore for the demonstration organised by Tehreek-e-Labbaik, a party […]

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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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