Islam in Britain: July 2022

Tuesday 19 July 2022

Mail Coverage

All of us at @StriveUKOrg stand in solidarity and support with @ZaraM01 and the @MuslimCouncil against this Islamophobic story. https://t.co/oV7VfFkORL
— StriveUK (@StriveUKOrg) July 18, 2022

Thursday 14 July 2022

BBC News, Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child "He was flown over from the East African country aged nine by a woman he had never met, and then made to look after another family's children, he says."

Skateboarding

"Lena, Maysa and Ameya took up the sport after seeing British Olympian Sky Brown's "flicks and tricks" during the pandemic."

Arena Inquiry Update

BBC News, Arena bomb brother guilty of failing to attend public inquiry "The elder brother of the Manchester Arena suicide bomber has been convicted of failing to appear at a public inquiry he was ordered to attend."

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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