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Sharia councils staffed by Muslim imams deny Muslim women the rights non-Muslim women enjoy in the UK. Women in unregistered marriages administered by these councils are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse by their husbands who can divorce them via a text message.
FWI News
Unregistered Muslim Marriages Undermine Women’s Rights in UK
June 6, 2023
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Susanna Lukacs
Officials have imposed limits on the weight of books prisoners can keep in their cells in the United Kingdom. It’s part of a larger effort to stop the spread of Islamist ideology in prisons. One expert suspects UK prisons lack the manpower necessary to enforce the rules. Above, HM Prison Maidstone in Maidstone, Kent, England.
FWI News
UK Limiting Islamist Books in Prisons Raises Questions
May 26, 2023
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Hannah Baldock
Members of Neturei Karta, a marginal anti-Zionist Jewish organization, took center stage at the Al Quds Day celebrations in London last month.
FWI News
Iran’s Poorly Attended Quds Day Rallies in the West
May 8, 2023
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Susannah Johnston
Winfield Myers
FWI News
UK Islamist Group CAGE Justifies Murder of British-Israeli Family
April 17, 2023
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Susannah Johnston
Farrokh Bahram Sekaleshfar, a well-known operative for the Iranian regime and a Khamenei supporter in the UK, told Focus on Western Islamism that, “The protection of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the most mandatory of mandatory duties.” (YouTube screenshot.)
FWI Research
How Tehran Builds Its ‘Soft War’ in the UK
April 5, 2023
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Potkin Azarmehr
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has reminded police and teachers in the UK that Great Britain does not have blasphemy laws.
FWI News
British Government: No to Islamist Intimidation
March 12, 2023
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Hannah Baldock
Winfield Myers
FWI Islamist Dissent
Muted Islamist Reactions to Death of Kamal El-Helbawy
March 2, 2023
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Sam Westrop
Iranian protesters gathered in the Hague to demand that Netherland’s House of Representatives close the Iranian Embassy in the Netherlands and expel its diplomats at a rally held on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Zivko.Trikic via Stock Adobe.)
FWI Opinion & Interview
Iranian Diaspora Revolutionaries Confront the Islamist Regime
February 27, 2023
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Majid Mohammadi
The reputations of two opponents of terrorism and Islamist extremism have been vindicated by the release of a report about Prevent, the UK’s counter extremism program. The two experts are Fiyaz Mughal, founder of Muslims Against Antisemitism, (left), and Professor Steven Greer, former lecturer at Bristol University (right). Both Mughal and Greer have worked to obstruct Islamist influence on public institutions in the UK.
FWI Opinion & Interview
Report Puts Islamism Back on Agenda in UK, Vindicates Counter-Islamists
February 24, 2023
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Wasiq Wasiq
Winfield Myers
FWI Research
The Troubling Islamist Connections of Scotland’s Next Leader.”
February 23, 2023
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Sam Westrop
Iran is intimidating journalists and dissidents in the United Kingdom.
FWI News
The UK Times: TV station shuts UK HQ as Iran’s killers target staff
February 20, 2023
Winfield Myers
FWI Research
UK Organizations Fundraise for Gazan Hamas Charity Run by Killers
February 15, 2023
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Sam Westrop
Winfield Myers
FWI News
UK Government Report Ties Islamism to Violence; Echoes MEF Recommendations
February 10, 2023
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Sam Westrop
The Muslim Council of Britain has elected a radical anti-Zionist, Mohammed Kozbar, to its leadership.
FWI News
Jewish Chronicle: Terrorist exalted as ‘holy warrior’ by new deputy leader of British Muslims
February 9, 2023
Musharraf Hussain received nearly £200,000 in UK taxpayer funds intended to counter Muslim extremism despite having expressed support for the Taliban in Afghanistan. (Photo by Masayr – via Wikimedia.)
FWI News
London Times: Imam ‘spread extremism while funded by Prevent’
February 7, 2023
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FWI Staff
FWI News
GIOR: UK Muslim Brotherhood Behind Muslim Civil Society Report Launched in British Parliament
January 27, 2023
The National Association of Muslim Police wants to stop public officials from using the the I-word (Islamism).
FWI Opinion & Interview
UK Muslim Police Association Wants to Hide Islamism
December 22, 2022
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Wasiq Wasiq
Winfield Myers
FWI News
Tehran Threatens Iranian Dissidents in the West
December 13, 2022
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Susannah Johnston
Winfield Myers
FWI News
London’s Mayor Celebrates Notorious Islamist Group
November 29, 2022
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Sam Westrop
Winfield Myers
FWI News
Western Islamists Surprisingly Ignore a Muslim Brotherhood Leader’s Death
November 10, 2022
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Sam Westrop
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