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Detention of Muslims at UK ports and airports ‘structural Islamophobia’ (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
Jihadi Jack: ‘Free me so I can fight against Islamic radicalisation’ Jack Letts tells Sky News he doesn't mind losing his British citizenship because he doesn't want to be governed by Boris Johnson.
(Sky News) The Briton who ran away to join Islamic State as a teenager has told Sky News he wants to be released from jail to join the fight against Islamist radicalisation. In an interview from prison, Jack Letts told Sky News […]
Citizenship
‘I was expecting something like this’: ‘Jihadi Jack’ learns from ITV News he’s no longer a British citizen
(ITV) Jack Letts, known as “Jihadi Jack,” has learned he has been stripped of his British citizenship in an exclusive interview with ITV News — and admitted it comes as no surprise. The detained Isis fighter, who held dual UK-Canadian citizenship, said […]
Citizenship
Conservative Leader Scheer won’t ‘lift finger’ to bring ‘Jihadi Jack’ to Canada
(Canadian Press) Neither the governing Liberals nor the Opposition Conservatives expressed enthusiasm Monday for trying to secure the release of the overseas prisoner dubbed “Jihadi Jack” by the British media. Questions once again emerged about the fate of Jack Letts, the British-Canadian […]
Citizenship
Jihadi Jack’s parents brand Sajid Javid a ‘coward’ over revoked citizenship
(BBC) The parents of a UK-Canadian man who joined the Islamic State group have said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid is a “coward” for revoking his British citizenship. Jack Letts — dubbed Jihadi Jack — was 18 when he left his Oxfordshire […]
Citizenship
Canada ‘disappointed’ terror suspect’s British citizenship revoked
(Canadian Press) The United Kingdom is shirking its share of the international community’s duty to help keep the world safe from terrorism, the federal government suggested Sunday after the British Home Office revoked the citizenship of a dual citizen imprisoned in Syria. […]
News: Europe
British extremist known as the ‘Supermarket Jihadi’ because he worked as Morrisons security guard ‘kills himself in suicide bombing in Syria’ (LINK ONLY)
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Citizenship
ISIS fighter Jihadi Jack is stripped of his UK passport sparking furious diplomatic row with Canada where he has joint citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Alcohol & Drugs
Muslim discovers Pret sandwich he’d been eating for 12 years ‘isn’t halal’ (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Isis babies will not be brought home (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Review of Prevent counter-extremism scheme risks becoming ‘whitewash,’ government warned (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Sikh charity urges journalists to stop referring to ‘Asian’ grooming gangs
(Hold the Front Page) A Sikh charity has called on journalists to stop using the term “Asian” in their coverage of sexual grooming gang cases. The Network of Sikh Organisations has made the plea in new media guidelines published following a meeting […]
Citizenship
Father’s bid to keep British citizenship for son who went to Syria to join ISIS is thrown out by High Court judge (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Brexit: No deal would harm UK security, senior officer warns (LINK ONLY)
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Met police seek access to journalists’ material on Shamima Begum (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Counter-terror chief says policing alone cannot beat extremism (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Labour branch secretary suspended over Hezbollah ‘love’ poem Huseyin Abudharr Ali also claimed Hollywood is Zionist propaganda machine and compared Israel to ISIS
(Jewish News) The former secretary of Stroud Green Labour has been suspended within weeks of being elected after a poem expressing “love” for Hezbollah was exposed. Huseyin Abudharr Ali, who was elected by 36 votes to 7 last month, has been suspended […]
Banks & Banking
Qataris are exporting political Islam to West (LINK ONLY)
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Arts & Entertainment
Al Rayan Bank: Clients include ‘terror’ group and Abu Hamza’s former mosque (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
New Tory chair appears to renege on promise of Islamophobia inquiry (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Lincolnshire non-Muslim girls asked to wear hijab for a day
(BBC) Non-Muslim girls in Lincolnshire are being asked to wear a hijab for a day to raise awareness of discrimination. Ghada Mohamed said she came up with the idea in response to a number of incidents where girls wearing hijabs were subjected […]
Legal
Manchester Arena bomber’s brother has been granted legal aid — while victims’ families are denied helped (LINK ONLY)
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Legal
UK ‘has responsibility’ to prosecute IS fighters
(BBC) The failure to bring Britons who fought for the Islamic State group to justice in the UK is a “dereliction of responsibility,” a top US counter-terrorism official says. Since the fall of [the] group’s last Syrian stronghold, Baghuz, the US has […]
Internet
ISIS warns of terror strikes in San Francisco, New York, London 'Kill them all, slit their throats, watch them die'
(Free Beacon) The ISIS terrorist organization is threatening to launch new attacks in San Francisco, New York, and London, according to new warning messages posted on the group’s social media channels. The messages, carried across the internet via the Telegram networking website, […]
Government & Politics
Islamic State ‘Beatles’ El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey could be tried in UK
(BBC) British investigators have enough evidence to prosecute two of the so-called Islamic State “Beatles” in the UK, the Supreme Court has been told. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to an IS cell which is thought to […]
Children & Teens
The shocking new figures on female genital mutilation in Coventry (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Muslim Council of Britain slams the Daily Telegraph for ‘inaccurate’ flu vaccine story The MCB will file a formal complaint against the newspaper, a spokesman said.
(HuffPost) The Muslim Council of Britain has denied issuing a “ruling” that parents should not vaccinate their children against flu, following an “inaccurate” frontpage story in the Daily Telegraph. In Monday’s edition an article by Bill Gardner reported that the MCB, Britain’s […]
Clothing
Woman arrested over footage of suspected homophobic abuse at east London Pride march (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Anzac Day terror plot: Blackburn boy granted anonymity
(BBC) The identity of a teenager who plotted to behead police officers at an Anzac Day parade in Australia will remain a secret for the rest of his life. The boy, from Blackburn, Lancashire, sent encrypted messages instructing an Australian jihadist to […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Tory Islamophobia: Johnson faces calls to honour pledge on inquiry (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Fears over Muslim parents withdrawing children from ‘non-halal’ flu vaccine (LINK ONLY)
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Clothing
Woman shouts ‘shame on you despicable people’ at Pride participant in east London (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Birmingham has high[er] female genital mutilation rate than anywhere in UK (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
Police arrest preacher, 64, and grab his Bible … for promoting Christianity (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Muslims divided over Johnson’s controversial comments in the past Boris Johnson became prime minister saying he would unify the country but to some Muslims he has been a divisive figure.
(Sky News) Boris Johnson is morally unfit to be prime minister, according to a former chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum. Mohammed Amin, who has been a member of the Tory party for 36 years, shocked many in June when he compared […]
Government & Politics
Faith leaders urge Boris Johnson to offer more refugees sanctuary (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Travel ban on Hertfordshire child ‘at risk of FGM’ relaxed
(BBC) A travel ban preventing a two-year-old thought to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been relaxed. The High Court previously ruled the girl must stay in the UK until she turned 16. After an appeal, the same court […]
Clerics & Preachers
‘Zionist pig’: Boris Johnson is latest victim of UK-based hate preacher Mohammed Al-Massari’s rants
(Arab News) Just a few hours after Boris Johnson effectively became the UK’s new prime minister, reactions from around the world flooded Twitter. While many were critical of Johnson’s victory, one tweet appeared extreme even by today’s standards of demagoguery. Dr. Mohammed […]
Academics & Education
Expert compares Trojan Horse furore to LGBT schools row (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
Farhad Salah jailed over driverless car bomb plot
(BBC) A would-be terrorist who tried to make a bomb to be used in a driverless car attack has been jailed for 15 years. Farhad Salah, 24, planned the attack to spare his own life while harming “others he considered to be […]
News: Europe
London Bridge terrorist’s widow was told ‘you’re a victim too’ by families of those killed (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Convictions for honour crimes including FGM, rape and forced marriage plummet amid national police crackdown (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Specialist jails aimed at stopping radicalisation are underused, say staff (LINK ONLY)
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Government & Politics
Iran-backed terrorist cells ‘ready to strike’ UK as tension escalates over seized oil tanker (LINK ONLY)
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Academics & Education
Teach primary school children about FGM, say campaigners (LINK ONLY)
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Employment
Organisations that fail to uphold British values to be barred from recruiting foreign workers (LINK ONLY)
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Deradicalization
Ex-jihadist Tania Joya now fights to ‘reprogram’ extremists
(AFP) Tania Joya has devoted her life to “reprogramming” extremists and reintroducing them into society — a process she understands well as a “former Islamic jihadist” herself. “My aim is for them to feel a sense of remorse and to train them […]
Children & Teens
Police at Heathrow raising awareness about forced marriages
(ITV) Specialist police are at Heathrow Airport all week as part of a national crackdown raising awareness against forced marriages, female genital mutilation and modern slavery. Last year, the Home Office supported victims in 1,764 suspected cases of forced marriage, 574 of […]
Legal
Manchester bomber’s brother denies involvement in attack (LINK ONLY)
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Law Enforcement
Westminster attack: Salih Khater convicted of attempted murder (LINK ONLY)
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