Day: 1 July 2022

Religion Media Centre Podcast: Episode 6

Our 6th podcast episode covers Roe v Wade and an exclusive interview with the imam recently sacked as the government adviser on Islamophobia

Religion news 1 July 2022

Imam Qari Asim: Ministers should retract statement and talk to me; Freedom of religion and belief: we need action, not just talk; Online liberal Friday prayers for modern Britain; Reports that Jehovah’s Witnesses kept database of historic sex abuse cases

They’ve lost it: Imam’s sacking ‘cuts government’s relationship with British Muslims’

The sacking of Imam Qari Asim as a government adviser on Islamophobia has brought it to a point where it is said to have “virtually no formal relationship with any Muslim organisation”

Ministers should talk to me, says imam sacked over Fatima film criticism

In an exclusive interview for the Religion Media Centre podcast, sacked government adviser Imam Qari Asim says the government needs to reconsider and retract statements against him and that he is always open to conversations.