{"id":6638,"date":"2016-08-30T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2016-09-20T06:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:57:23","slug":"islam-britain-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2016\/08\/30\/islam-britain-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Islam in Britain: July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2016\/08\/30\/islam-britain-july-2016\/islam-uk-july-2016\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6639\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/islam-uk-july-2016.jpg\" alt=\"islam-uk-july-2016\" width=\"600\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/islam-uk-july-2016.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/islam-uk-july-2016-300x154.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 July 2016.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>A Month of Islam in Britain: July 2016<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8792\/britain-islam-july\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | August 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p>July 1. A Muslim taxi driver in <strong>Leicester<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/leicester-taxi-driver-refuses-to-take-blind-couple-and-guide-dog\/story-29473604-detail\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">refused<\/a> to pick up a blind couple because they had a guide dog. Charles Bloch and Jessica Graham had booked a taxi with ADT Taxis for them and their guide dog, Carlo. But when the taxi arrived, the driver said, \u201cMe, I not take the dog. For me, it\u2019s about my religion.\u201d Many Muslims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Islam-Why-is-keeping-dogs-as-pets-haram-forbidden-in-Islam\" target=\"_blank\">believe<\/a> dogs are impure and <em>haram<\/em> (strictly forbidden).<\/p>\n<p>July 1. A judge in London <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3669929\/One-legged-Albanian-killer-finally-deported-14-YEARS-living-handouts.html\" target=\"_blank\">ordered<\/a> the deportation of Saliman Barci, a 41-year-old Albanian man who posed as a refugee from Kosovo and collected the full range of welfare payments in Britain for 14 years. Barci, it turned out, was a citizen of Albania who had murdered two men there in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>July 2. A Somali man was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/03\/convicted-somalian-rapist-had-deportation-order-overturned-befor\/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced<\/a> to ten years in prison for raping two women in <strong>Birmingham<\/strong>. Dahir Ibrahim, 31, had previously been sentenced to ten years in 2005 for raping a woman in <strong>Edgbaston<\/strong>. A judge had ordered his deportation after he had served his first sentence, but he appealed and was allowed to remain in Britain. Ibrahim\u2019s attorney, Jabeen Akhtar, successfully argued that he had a lack of understanding of what is acceptable in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/8792\/britain-islam-july\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chronological review of some of the main stories involving Islam in Britain during July 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":[180,46,181],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-islam-in-europe","tag-britain","tag-european-multiculturalism","tag-islam-in-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Month of Islam in Britain: July 2016 - 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