Press articles on matters of faith

Westminster university Islamic students’ society dominated by ultra-conservative Muslims
September 21, 2015 By Faith Matters

Westminster university Islamic students’ society dominated by ultra-conservative Muslims

The Islamic students’ society at the London university attended by the militant known as Jihadi John is dominated by hardline, ultra-conservative believers who refuse to even speak with female Muslim staff members, according to an independent report into inclusion among students at the institution. Complaints about the conduct of the University of Westminster Islamic society, […]

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September 21, 2015 By Faith Matters

British armed forces must recruit more people from ethnic minorities, says Defence Secretary

Britain’s Army, Navy and Air Force will have to hire 30 per cent more recruits from an ethnic minority background by the end of the decade under plans to improve diversity in the armed forces. The Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, has told service chiefs that by 2020 at least 10 per cent of all new […]

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September 21, 2015 By Faith Matters

Twitter’s racism epidemic: 6.7 MILLION slurs in just two weeks as horrifying avalanche of online abuse is revealed

Social media is in the grip of a worsening racism epidemic that threatens to impact on the future of race relations in real society, a jaw-dropping new study reveals. Mirror Online has been given exclusive access to research which demonstrates the horrifying extent of online racism and poses serious questions about how technology is affecting […]

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June 22, 2015 By Faith Matters

More UK Muslim women needed to combat extremism, say activists

Not enough Muslim women are involved in counter-extremism operations in the UK, say activists, a problem which could be leading to more women and teenage girls deciding to travel to Syria to join extremist groups. This week a UK family, comprising three sisters and nine children from Bradford, crossed the border into Syria without their […]

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June 19, 2015 By Faith Matters

Radicalisation and Extremism and the Pulls Towards ISIS and Syria

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 […]

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June 17, 2015 By Faith Matters

British Link Muslims To Terrorism, Reject Syrian Refugees, Poll Finds

When 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 […]

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April 13, 2015 By Faith Matters

Young Jihadis Follow a Path To Destruction in Syria

British 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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November 17, 2014 By Faith Matters

Faith Matters Highlighted in Turkish News Agency About its Work on ‘Women Friendly Mosques’

Mosque building has been a part of Turkish tradition for centuries; now cultural changes are sweeping across this art, as two female architects pave the way for more ‘female-friendly’ places of worship. Istanbul’s planned Camlica mosque, which will be the biggest in the history of Turkish Republic, has been designed by two female architects, Bahar […]

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Muslim-Jewish Relations Must Confront the Palestinian Issue
August 26, 2014 By Faith Matters

Muslim-Jewish Relations Must Confront the Palestinian Issue

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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No to Importing Extremism and Sectarianism into the UK
July 23, 2014 By Faith Matters

No to Importing Extremism and Sectarianism into the UK

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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