Islam in Britain: Grenfell Tower Disaster

Imams Online, London’s Muslim Community Provides Aid to Grenfell Tower Victims "Some of the first community responders to come to the aid of the victims and provide support, shelter and food for those that had been left stranded and homeless by this tragedy were faith communities from across West London. Alongside churches and temples, Mosques and the Muslim community rallied to provide support in any way they could." Also see @Muslim_Aid and general coverage from BBC News, Twelve dead after huge tower block fire

'Lucy Sherriff, Twitter, Young Muslim boys were banging on our doors to wake everyone up.' - Locals praise Muslim community following #GrenfellTower #GrenfellFire

Yahoo News, Grenfell Tower fire: Muslims who were still awake because of Ramadan saved residents’ lives

BBC, The man who filmed the events of the Grenfell fire

Islamic Algorithms

Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

Islam in Britain started in 2009; it provides a series of links to information relating to Islam and Muslims in Britain, part of virtuallyislamic.com. Archived links can be found here. Follow the X feed (@garybunt) for regular updates.

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Islam in Britain

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Grenfell Tower Disaster - Update