Re-Printed from Ha’aretz The Gaza war has highlighted the Palestinian ‘elephant in the room’ in U.K. Muslim-Jewish dialogue as well as the U.K.’s foreign policy double standards on Israel. Can interfaith contact survive? The fallout from the Israel-Gaza conflict has not only has led to massive carnage in the Middle East, it also – depressingly […]
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The battlegrounds of Syria and Iraq are similarly distant. Yet these far-flung war zones are threatening to test Britain’s famous legacy of tolerance like never before. Excluding Israel, Britain has the fourth largest Jewish population in the world and the third largest number of Muslim citizens in Europe. Compared with much of Europe, and particularly […]
Continue ReadingFaith Matters is looking to provide 25 young people aged 18-30 with free access to an E-Activism and Combating Xenophobia course. The course will provide face to face training and support for 24 hours per young person and will provide participants with a greater insight into hate crime work and some of the issues affecting […]
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News has circulated today about the expansion of ISIS into the North West of Iraq after Kurdish fighters withdrew leading to the fall of a town with the largest concentration of Christians. Residents of Qaraqosh, Iraq’s biggest Christian town, have fled, as have Christian residents from neighbouring regions and many are headed towards the […]
Continue ReadingFaith Matters has been working on projects tackling Far Right and other forms of extremism, including those who manipulate and use faith to promote extremist political ideologies or messages. We have worked for over 9 years, since 7/7, on how extremist ideologies can be tackled and we have done so with civil society groups and […]
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We have printed the Role of Righteous Muslims, Muslims who saved Jews in the Holocaust, in German. The booklet has now been printed in Arabic, German and English and we have circulated over 8,000 booklets electronically and in hard copy form within the UK. We hope that the Role of Righteous Muslims booklet serves as […]
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We understand that the continuing conflict in Iraq and the civil war in Syria have the potential to be used to promote sectarian violence in the United Kingdom and whilst the chances of real unrest are extremely low, there is a sense in some small localities in the UK that there are existing lines drawn […]
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As part of the Righteous Muslims project, we have developed information boards of various sizes that can be used by schools, mosques and synagogues and which outline cast studies and histories of Muslims who saved Jews in the Holocaust. The boards highlight the personal stories of Muslims who risked their lives and their personal possessions […]
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We understand, given that we work with diverse Muslim communities in the UK, that there is anger about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and the large number of deaths in Gaza. The reaction within Israel on the back of the murders of three teenagers has certainly hardened public opinion in the country and […]
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THE LOSS OF CHRISTIANS IN MOSUL & THE MIDDLE EAST IS A STAIN ON THE REGION The actions of ISIS in Iraq and in areas like Mosul and the corresponding targeting of Christians in Syria and other areas brings an ill wind for the future of minority faiths in the region. Furthermore, Arab Christians from […]
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