Author archives: Faith Matters

British Imams Demand the Release of Extremist Khadim Hussain Rizvi
December 4, 2018 By Faith Matters

British Imams Demand the Release of Extremist Khadim Hussain Rizvi

On the 30th of November 2018, Deeni News, broadcast this interview with a number of religious leaders based in the United Kingdom. What is so distressing about this interview is that these UK based individuals are demanding the release of violent extremism promoter, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who leads the extremist Tehreek-e-Labaik party in Pakistan. This […]

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If you can’t as a Persecuted Christian Get Asylum in the UK, then Something Warped is Happening
December 2, 2018 By Faith Matters

If you can’t as a Persecuted Christian Get Asylum in the UK, then Something Warped is Happening

The Times reports today that the lawyer for persecuted Christian, Asia Bibi, has lambasted the Prime Minister and asked that she stand up for persecuted Christians. The lawyer, Saif ul-Malook, questioned why the Government had not provided asylum for Asia Bib and stated that the Christian world campaigned for Asia and has now turned its […]

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We Urge the Home Secretary to Provide Refuge and Sanctuary to Asia Bibi in the UK
November 12, 2018 By Faith Matters

We Urge the Home Secretary to Provide Refuge and Sanctuary to Asia Bibi in the UK

We have today, signed a letter with numerous organisations and individuals, asking the Home Secretary to provide the option of sanctuary and refuge to Asia Bibi, who was released after 8 years of false imprisonment in Pakistan. Faith Matters has consistently highlighted the extremism of groups like Tehreek-e-Labaik and its leader, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who […]

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Exclusive: Polish Group Organising Independence Day Rally in Peterborough Has Problematic Past
November 10, 2018 By Faith Matters

Exclusive: Polish Group Organising Independence Day Rally in Peterborough Has Problematic Past

A Polish community group which is organising an Independence Day rally in Peterborough tomorrow has previously called for the release of a notorious Polish white supremacist who murdered an anti-Apartheid activist in South Africa in 1993 in hopes of triggering a race war, a Faith Matters investigation can reveal. We are concerned that Peterborough’s Mayor […]

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Egypt says 19 militants killed in security operation after attack on Christians
November 5, 2018 By Faith Matters

Egypt says 19 militants killed in security operation after attack on Christians

Egyptian security forces killed 19 Islamist militants from a cell believed to be responsible for an attack on Christians in Minya province in central Egypt in which seven people died, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Security forces killed the suspects in a firefight after a chase in a mountainous area of the desert west […]

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Fearing ‘angry mob’, lawyer of freed Christian woman leaves Pakistan
November 3, 2018 By Faith Matters

Fearing ‘angry mob’, lawyer of freed Christian woman leaves Pakistan

The Pakistani lawyer who helped a Christian woman overturn her death sentence for blasphemy said on Saturday he had left the country in fear of his life after her acquittal earlier this week sparked street protests by Islamists. Leaders of the ultra-Islamist Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) group blocked main roads in Pakistan’s biggest cites for three days, […]

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Pittsburgh synagogue victims include 97-year-old, pair of brothers
October 28, 2018 By Faith Matters

Pittsburgh synagogue victims include 97-year-old, pair of brothers

A 97-year-old woman, two brothers in their 50s and a married couple in their 80s were among the 11 worshipers shot dead at a Pittsburgh synagogue during Sabbath prayers in the deadliest attack ever on America’s Jewish community, officials said on Sunday. The names of the dead were released a day after a gunman, armed […]

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Celebrity Jewish-Arab wedding stirs mixed feelings in Israel
October 26, 2018 By Faith Matters

Celebrity Jewish-Arab wedding stirs mixed feelings in Israel

A surprise celebrity wedding bridging Israel’s Jewish-Muslim divide drew mixed public reaction on Thursday in a country where such inter-marriage is extremely rare. Wednesday’s nuptials of Tsahi Halevi, an Arabic-fluent Jewish actor, and Lucy Aharish, a Muslim anchor on a top Hebrew news show, followed a four-year romance that, friends said, they had kept secret […]

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In Indonesia, transgender women find haven in Islamic boarding school
October 26, 2018 By Faith Matters

In Indonesia, transgender women find haven in Islamic boarding school

Shinta Ratri, the matron of an Indonesian Islamic boarding school, corrects the pronunciation of a group of fellow Muslims as they chant the phrase “only one God” in Arabic and prepare to pray together. Nothing unusual in that, except that these worshippers, gathered in a cramped residential neighbourhood of the city of Yogyakarta, are all […]

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Oxford Islamic scholar Ramadan admits to ‘sex games’, denies rape
October 26, 2018 By Faith Matters

Oxford Islamic scholar Ramadan admits to ‘sex games’, denies rape

Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, a professor of Islamic studies, said on Monday he had engaged in “sex games” with two women in France who accuse him of rape, but said the “submissive-dominant” relationships were consensual. It is the first time in the near one-year long case that the Oxford University professor, who has taken a […]

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