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4th ‘Forum for Peace’ promotes interfaith engagement to counter extremism and tackle Islamophobia

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The event, run by the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, brought together Muslim and non-Muslim delegates from around the world to discuss the global issues of countering extremism and tackling Islamophobia.

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Islamophobic letter campaign, titled ‘Punish a Muslim Day’, circulated throughout UK

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The Islamophobia watch group, TellMAMA, reports of a threatening letter which publicises so-called ‘Punish a Muslim Day’, a day of violence against Muslims on April 3rd. The campaign encourages acts of violence such as pulling women’s headscarves and bombing mosques.

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Proceedings begin to deport El Hadi Doudi, Marseille’s Salafist Algerian imam

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On March 8 a commission of magistrates began the process of deporting the influential Salafist Algerian imam El Hadi Doudi at the Interior Minister Gerard Collomb’s request. Doudi is suspected of having conducted radical and hateful preaching against Jews and those he refers to as “unbelievers” in his Marseille mosque. The committee follows the deportation…

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International Women’s Day brings calls for Muslim women to be more involved in mosque governance and leadership, amid discussion of breaking religious glass ceilings

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Research has shown that women are typically alienated from mosque leadership and governance in the UK. Muslim advocacy organisations have set up schemes to promote women’s involvement in mosques as a result, and International Women’s Day has prompted discussion of the ways in which women can break religious glass ceilings across all faiths.

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New figures: Jews, Muslims face rising levels of religious hate crime in Germany

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2017 marked the first year that the German Interior Ministry officially registers Islamophobic (islamfeindliche) hate crimes. The authorities have now released preliminary figures on anti-Muslim criminal activity for the past year.1 950 Islamophobic criminal incidents in 2017 According to these statistics, Muslim individuals or institutions were targeted in 950 separate instances in 2017. This includes…

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