{"id":6619,"date":"2016-09-19T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T05:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:13:07","slug":"month-islam-multiculturalism-britain-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/09\/19\/month-islam-multiculturalism-britain-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Islam in Britain: August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/09\/19\/month-islam-multiculturalism-britain-august-2016\/tanveer-ahmed-asad-shah\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6620\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6620\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tanveer-ahmed-asad-shah.jpg\" alt=\"tanveer-ahmed-asad-shah\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tanveer-ahmed-asad-shah.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tanveer-ahmed-asad-shah-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A chronological review of some of the main stories involving Islam in Britain during August 2016.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Britain: August 2016<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8973\/islam-britain-august\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | September 19, 2016<\/p>\n<p>August 1. Nearly 900 Syrians in Britain were arrested in 2015 for crimes including rape and child abuse, police statistics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/1528756\/hundreds-of-syrians-in-uk-arrested-over-string-of-offences-including-rape-and-child-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a>. The British government has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/695066\/Police-arrest-900-Syrians-in-England-and-Wales-for-rape-death-threats-and-child-abuse\" target=\"_blank\">pledged<\/a> to resettle up to 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK by the end of 2020. \u201cThe government seems not to have vetted those it has invited into the country,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/695066\/Police-arrest-900-Syrians-in-England-and-Wales-for-rape-death-threats-and-child-abuse\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> MEP Ray Finch. The disclosure came after Northumbria Police and the BBC were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3637105\/Why-did-police-quiet-sex-attack-Syrian-UK-refugees-Girl-14-assaulted-gang-kept-crime-list-covered-BBC-Newsnight-team.html\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a> of covering up allegations that a gang of Syrians sexually assaulted two teenage girls in a park in Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>August 1. Male refugees settling in Britain must receive formal training on how to treat women, a senior Labour MP said. Thangam Debbonaire, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/31\/male-refugees-settling-in-britain-need-to-be-formally-taught-how\/\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> for a \u201crefugee integration strategy\u201d so that men \u201cunderstand what is expected of them.\u201d She said it could help prevent sexual harassment and issues \u201cincluding genital mutilation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8973\/islam-britain-august\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chronological review of some of the main stories involving Islam in Britain during August 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48],"tags":[180,128,46,181],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-islam-in-europe","tag-britain","tag-european-jihadists-in-syria","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-islam-in-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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