Children & Teens
Priti Patel blocks rescue of British Isis children (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Scottish FGM law won’t racially profile, Scots minister insists (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Briton arrested at Heathrow after Turkey said it deported Isis suspect (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Tooba Gondal: Turkey deports London Isis ‘matchmaker’ (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Top Muslim group slams Boris Johnson for ‘breaking promise’ to investigate ‘institutional’ Tory Islamophobia
(Politics Home) A top Muslim group has hit out at Boris Johnson for breaking his promise to investigate “institutional” Islamophobia in his party. The Muslim Council of Britain accused the Conservative leadership of “denial, deflection and discounting” after the party announced it […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Sajid Javid confirms Tory racism probe will not just focus on Islamophobia
(Politics Home) Sajid Javid has confirmed that a long-promised Conservative inquiry into Islamophobia will now be broadened out to include “all types of prejudice.” The chancellor — who made headlines in the Conservative leadership campaign by getting all fellow contenders to sign […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Boris Johnson faces backlash after pulling Islamophobia inquiry
(Politics Home) Boris Johnson has faced backlash for backtracking on his promise to hold an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the Tory party. The PM told the BBC there would not be such an inquiry — but instead a “general investigation into […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Tory Islamophobia row: Warsi accuses Hancock of ‘whitesplaining’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Young people who joined ISIS should be allowed back to UK to fight terrorism, says Wales’ outgoing Muslim leader (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
New guidelines published to tackle ‘othering’ of Scotland’s Muslim communities (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
British politicians must do more to tackle extremism, says top adviser Sara Khan says MPs' responses to extremism are 'weak, insufficient and often ineffective'
(National-UAE) The British government’s extremism adviser has called on leaders of the country’s three main political parties to commit to challenging hateful acts. Sara Khan has written to Conservative leader and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson, […]
Government & Politics
Labour MP hopeful said she would ‘celebrate’ deaths of Blair, Netanyahu (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Yusuf Islam invites Turkey’s Erdogan to attend Cambridge Mosque opening ceremony
(Middle East Monitor) Renowned British singer Yusuf Islam last week invited Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend the opening ceremony of the Cambridge Mosque next month. The invitation came during a meeting between the two men in Istanbul, the Anadolu Agency […]
Government & Politics
UK terror threat level downgraded from severe to substantial (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Isis women driven by more than marriage, research shows (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
What makes a teenager give up her Western life to join the Islamic State?
(Age) It was a truth universally acknowledged that all young women traveling from Britain to the Islamic State needed to go shopping first, and in that strange winter when girls started to go missing, Westfield Stratford City, a sprawling mall in east […]
Clothing
British taxpayers’ cash is spent by the EU to fund a ‘ridiculous’ report branding Boris Johnson as a central figure in Islamophobia (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Social integration has been abandoned, says former government tsar (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Woman, 36, accused of plotting ISIS suicide bomb attack at St Paul’s Cathedral appears in court (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
MI5 role before London Bridge attack ‘of legitimate concern’ (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Volunteers ‘ran terror website spreading message of convicted hate preacher who praised ISIS for crucifixions and said children as young as 12 should make bombs’ (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi death: Monitoring of Islamist extremist suspects in Britain stepped up The move is precautionary amid warnings of potential reprisal attacks after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself in a US raid.
(Sky News) Security officials are increasing monitoring of high-priority Islamist extremist suspects in Britain following the death of the leader of Islamic State, according to Sky sources. The move is precautionary amid warnings of the potential for reprisal attacks by supporters of […]
Children & Teens
UK to accept children of jihadi brides (LINK ONLY)
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Internet
UK Turkish groups ‘using anti-Kurdish [propaganda]’ (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s ‘jihadi giant’ bodyguard who became an ISIS executioner after fleeing UK is killed in Syria (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Shamima Begum: I fear psychotic Isis women (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
UK government considered repatriation of British Isis members (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Shamima Begum faces ‘extreme scenario’ in citizenship appeal (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
Brother of Manchester Arena bomber pleads not guilty to 22 murders (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
British police have foiled 24 terror plots since ISIS-inspired Westminster attack in March 2017, Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick says (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Shamima Begum begins appeal against loss of UK citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
ISIS bride Shamima Begum wants to return to UK to argue she was ‘rape victim’ (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Supporters of banned groups in UK face tougher sentences (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Female and LGBT Labour MPs say Salma Yaqoob should not be allowed to stand for West Midlands mayor (LINK ONLY)
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Clerics & Preachers
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary’s banned terror group ‘has revived since he was released from jail last year and is holding meetings again’ (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
New app challenges prejudice and promotes international aid (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
Ex-IS recruiter tells ITV News she is being held by Syrian rebels after escaping detention camp
(ITV) Hundreds of women who are accused of being supporters and recruiters for so-called Islamic State have been on the run, along with their children, since last Sunday, after finding a way to escape a detention camp in northern Syria. The women […]
Legal
Alleged jihadist in court accused of plot to blow up St Paul’s Cathedral (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
UK special forces may help British orphans escape Syria (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
British and Irish women who recruited for Isil found in makeshift jail after escaping detention camp (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Westminster car crash driver Salih Khater jailed for life
(BBC) A man who drove at cyclists and police officers outside Parliament has been jailed for life for attempted murder. Salih Khater, 30, of Highgate Street, Birmingham, aimed his car at members of the public before swerving towards the officers in Parliament […]
Government & Politics
Mayor Cllr Rakhia Ismail calls out Islington Council over failure to provide any Eid celebrations (LINK ONLY)
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News: Europe
‘Will you apologise for the murder of David Haines?’: ITV News confronts ISIS ‘Beatles’ over death of British aid worker
(ITV) The two surviving British members of the ISIS terror cell dubbed “The Beatles” have been confronted by ITV News about what they know of the last moments of murdered aid worker David Haines. In their last TV interviews before both were […]
News: Europe
British IS fighter said he wanted to return to the UK in last interview before removal from ‘unstable’ Syrian prison
(ITV) A British IS fighter said he wanted to return to the UK to defend himself in his last interview before he was moved from an “unstable” Syrian prison and into US custody. Speaking to ITV News security editor Rohit Kachroo, El […]
Government & Politics
US moves 2 British IS members known as ‘Beatles’ from Syria
(AP) Two British militants believed to be part of an Islamic State group that beheaded hostages and was known as “The Beatles” have been moved out of a detention center in Syria and are in American custody, U.S. officials said Wednesday. President […]
Children & Teens
Counter-terror police running secret Prevent database (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Nursery forced to return government counter-extremism funding following backlash (LINK ONLY)
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History
Sikh peer leaves BBC Radio 4 show with swipe at ‘thought police’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Forced marriage and FGM to be a social work focus in Aberdeen (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Woman fled female genital mutilation ‘cutter’ role after Birmingham intervention (LINK ONLY)
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