Academics & Education

Culture secretary orders crackdown on hate preachers Lisa Nandy drafting new laws to stop anyone convicted of hate crime from holding senior positions at charitable organisations, such as ... mosques, Islamic centres

(Jewish News) Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced a crackdown on hate preachers at mosques and Islamic centres as part of the government’s new efforts to combat antisemitism. [Meanwhile], in further measures to counter Jew-hate, thousands of teachers and university staff will […]

Clerics & Preachers

Mosque where imam made derogatory remarks about Jews denies radicalising Manchester terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie told one of his wives in 2022 that he 'rly [sic] love' the Masjid Sunnah Nelson

(Jewish News) A mosque near Burnley where repeated derogatory references to Jews have been made in sermons has denied radicalising the Heaton Park Synagogue terrorist, who described in 2022 how he “rly [sic] love the mosque there.” Jihad Al-Shamie, who carried out […]