Fiyaz Mughal, the Director of Faith Matters speaks about the pushes and pulls of extremism and the way that ISIS and other extreme groups are reaching out to individuals and groups within the United Kingdom. Fiyaz outlines some of the background as to where 3 women and their 9 children may be, after travelling to […]
Continue ReadingWhen British people think about Muslims, terrorism often comes to mind. Amid a growing international concern about the Islamic State group (aka ISIS), a recent YouGov poll found that Britons associate followers of Islam with certain negative terms more often than positive ones. At the top of the list were the 12 percent of respondents […]
Continue ReadingWe have all seen the terrible impacts on communities of the nihilistic pull of ISIS. Yesterday, a group of 3 women and their children disappeared whilst returning from Saudi Arabia and are purported to be in Turkey, on their way to ISIS. Any theological material that undermines the rhetoric of ISIS whilst placing British Muslims […]
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This Saturday: British gangster-turned-Sufi Muslim Martin Askew to talk about his life following the screening of Snow in Paradise, a film he inspired Bucking the trend about negative Muslim stories in the press, actor Martin Askew will talk about his salvation from a life of crime through Islam at a special screening event at the […]
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We are aware of the following questionnaires being circulated in Buxton School in Leytonstone (Waltham Forest) and the questionnaires seemed to indicate that it is related to Prevent work. The project has been funded through the EU and through a call for proposals entitled, “Radicalisation Leading to Extremism.” The Prevent Steering Board of Waltham Forest […]
Continue ReadingBritish teenagers are increasingly lured by “Jihadi-lite” images of the Islamic State militant group on social media that give them a false sense of security, Faith Matters, a non-profit organization, told Sputnik. MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — In the recent months, the number of Britons trying to travel to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State has surged, which has triggered […]
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The killing of a man attending a talk by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks and the further murder of a man shot in the head in a synagogue, raise the alarming spectre of a campaign possibly inspired by an ISIS or AL Qaeda sympathiser, within the Danish capital. Coming so close after the Charlie Hebdo […]
Continue ReadingFaith Matters is an organisation that works on numerous social projects including interfaith, conflict resolution, preventing extremism and monitoring hate crimes work. We believe in dialogue, in speaking to those with different opinions and in bringing communities together. This is a fundamental part of who we are and what we are about. There is no […]
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Speaking to press sources today the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, stated that young men who join extremist groups have a low sense of self-esteem and need to be found work, so that they have a purpose. We welcome the fact that the Mayor has re-iterated the need for young people to have a focus […]
Continue Reading“After a difficult time for all communities, I take this opportunity to praise the Right Honourable Eric Pickles MP, for recognising that extremism requires a multitude of voices to challenge. Unity against the voices of division is a potent and powerful message. We agree that Britain is diminished without its Muslim communities but we would […]
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