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Crime
Mosque defender among men jailed for disorder
(BBC) A man who threw a punch while trying to protect a mosque during disorder in Middlesbrough has been jailed along with others involved in the violence. More than 1,000 people were estimated to have taken to the town’s streets on 4 […]
Government & Politics
UK officials who oversaw funding of extremist Muslim groups must be sacked: counterterrorism expert
(Arab News) UK Prevent program officials who have overseen the public funding of Muslim groups that promote extremism should be sacked, a counterterrorism expert has said in the Times newspaper. Prof. Ian Acheson, a senior adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, which […]
Academics & Education
Mosque trustees failed to monitor IS sympathiser who groomed boys for terrorism, inquiry finds
(Barking and Dagenham Post) The trustees of a mosque where children were groomed for terrorism failed to properly monitor an Islamic State sympathiser then attempted to cover up what happened, the Charity Commission has found. All five have been disqualified for 10 […]