Tell MAMA’s Fiyaz Mughal calls for funds to tackle Muslim anti-Semitism in the UK Calls mount after four people were taken hostage at a Texas synagogue by a British Muslim

(National-UAE) Tell MAMA founder Fiyaz Mughal is calling for investment to tackle Muslim anti-Semitism after a British man took four people hostage in a Texas synagogue.

Malik Faisal Akram was shot dead in the armed siege at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville in Dallas in January. He had demanded the release of a female Al Qaeda terrorist.

From Blackburn in northern England, Akram was a British Muslim who had travelled to the US to commit the hostage taking.

Speaking at a webinar held by think tank the Henry Jackson Society on Muslim anti-Semitism after the Texas incident, Mr Mugbal questioned why the UK government has never funded investment into tackling the issue.

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