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Anti-Shia Rhetoric Like This is Unacceptable. It is Anti-Muslim Bigotry
January 9, 2016 By Tell Mama

Anti-Shia Rhetoric Like This is Unacceptable. It is Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Sadly, as we have said before, there are groups who want to tackle anti-Muslim prejudice or Islamophobia. This is noble cause, but it is one that is based on ensuring that bigotry against other groups is not promoted or published. How many times have we come across material from some of these groups that is

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Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia
January 8, 2016 By Tell Mama

Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia

In a recent column for Middle East Eye, Dilly Hussain (Deputy Editor of 5Pillars) wrote that Tell MAMA’s mission of providing a service for British Muslims to report hate crimes will soon be obsolete now that the Home Office has required all police forces in the United Kingdom to record anti-Muslim hate crimes on par

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Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia
January 8, 2016 By Tell Mama

Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia

In a recent column for Middle East Eye, Dilly Hussain (Deputy Editor of 5Pillars) wrote that Tell MAMA’s mission of providing a service for British Muslims to report hate crimes will soon be obsolete now that the Home Office has required all police forces in the United Kingdom to record anti-Muslim hate crimes on par

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Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia
January 8, 2016 By Tell Mama

Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia

In a recent column for Middle East Eye, Dilly Hussain (Deputy Editor of 5Pillars) wrote that Tell MAMA’s mission of providing a service for British Muslims to report hate crimes will soon be obsolete now that the Home Office has required all police forces in the United Kingdom to record anti-Muslim hate crimes on par

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Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia
January 8, 2016 By Tell Mama

Tell MAMA remains the leading organisation to tackle Islamophobia

In a recent column for Middle East Eye, Dilly Hussain (Deputy Editor of 5Pillars) wrote that Tell MAMA’s mission of providing a service for British Muslims to report hate crimes will soon be obsolete now that the Home Office has required all police forces in the United Kingdom to record anti-Muslim hate crimes on par

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14 Police Forces in Data Sharing Discussions with Tell MAMA
January 7, 2016 By Tell Mama

14 Police Forces in Data Sharing Discussions with Tell MAMA

Come the New Year, we are pleased to announce the fact that we have signed data sharing agreements with 4 major police forces and these include the Metropolitan Police Service, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside and Cheshire police forces. We are in the process of signing up a further 10 forces which will mean that 14

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14 Police Forces in Data Sharing Discussions with Tell MAMA
January 7, 2016 By Tell Mama

14 Police Forces in Data Sharing Discussions with Tell MAMA

Come the New Year, we are pleased to announce the fact that we have signed data sharing agreements with 4 major police forces and these include the Metropolitan Police Service, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside and Cheshire police forces. We are in the process of signing up a further 10 forces which will mean that 14

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14 Police Forces in Data Sharing Discussions with Tell MAMA
January 7, 2016 By Tell Mama

14 Police Forces in Data Sharing Discussions with Tell MAMA

Come the New Year, we are pleased to announce the fact that we have signed data sharing agreements with 4 major police forces and these include the Metropolitan Police Service, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside and Cheshire police forces. We are in the process of signing up a further 10 forces which will mean that 14

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Who is Pegida UK’s new leader Paul Weston?
January 5, 2016 By Tell Mama

Who is Pegida UK’s new leader Paul Weston?

At a Bedfordshire pub, the UK branch of Pegida announced a new leadership structure, following its disastrous relaunch in late 2015. At the helm is Paul Weston, leader of the fringe party Liberty GB. Weston stood in the 2015 General Election and mustered just 0.4 per cent of the vote (158 votes) in Luton South.

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Why do people want Titanic priest Father Thomas Byles sainted?
January 4, 2016 By FM

Why do people want Titanic priest Father Thomas Byles sainted?

A campaign to canonise a Catholic priest who stayed on the RMS Titanic instead of fleeing remains ongoing despite renewed interest in his story. The story of Father Thomas Byles and his acts of selflessness, however, deserves re-telling. Roussel Davids Byles was born in 1870 to a Protestant family in Leeds. His father, Reverend Dr. Alfred Holden Byles and mother Louisa Davids also had six other children. He excelled at mathematics and  gained a scholarship to Balliol School, Oxford. When at Oxford, Byles gravitated towards the Church of England. His younger brother, William, however, converted to Catholicism first. In 1894, he had a conditional baptism (sub conditione) at St. Aloysius Church in Oxford. Upon entering the Catholic faith, Roussel adopted the name of Thomas. After spending two years in Rome, Byles became the ordained priest of St Helen’s Church, Chipping Ongar, Essex in 1904. In 1912, he had boarded the ship to attend the wedding of his younger brother William, in New York. This last minute decision to board the Titanic instead of a different ship cost him £13 (roughly £1,100 today). His second class ticket was number 244310. His duties included performing mass for second and third class passengers. [...]

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