Students learn to fly

    Muslim students are being encouraged to learn how to fly planes in a Salford University project. Eighty students – mostly from Muslim, black and minority ethnic backgrounds – have flown a glider or trainer aircraft as part of the scheme. The project, called Festival of Flight, is opening doors for students felt excluded from the…

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      More money invested to tackle radicalisation

      New guidance to help and support local authorities, schools, community groups and the police in tackling violent extremism and prevent radicalisation in communities was launched on Tuesday by the government. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Children, Schools and Families Secretary Ed Balls rolled out their counter terrorism strategy which hopes to…

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        Mums to be asked to fight extremism

        Mothers and aunts will be asked to help fight extremism in Muslim communities, Local Government Secretary Hazel Blears has revealed. Ministers are to draw up new plans to bring “ordinary people” on board, particularly women. It follows admissions that the Government has placed too much emphasis on the role of people identified as “community leaders”…

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          Employers back moves to attract Muslim working women

          Employers have backed a positive action campaign to attract more Muslim women into the workplace. Communities secretary Hazel Blears called on employers and local authorities to step up the number of projects that encourage Muslim women into work. But the UK’s largest umbrella body the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said that although it welcomed…

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            France, Uk To Beef Up Muslim Recruitment

            Senior officials and experts from Britain and France agreed Thursday to recruit more Muslims to help fight the spread of radical Islam in their countries. Some of the officials, who met at the British embassy in Paris, told journalists that the governments were not aiming at imposing quotas but rather “recruitment objectives”. The need to…

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