Extremist Group Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan’s Flag Raised in U.K. University

December 4, 2024 Article

We have been documenting the rising influence of the violent extremist group, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), in the United Kingdom and in Europe. The work of Faith Matters on highlighting the pernicious and extremist basis of this group can be found here, here and here. In a recent tweet made on the 2nd of December 2024, […]

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Blasphemy Continues to Fuel Extremism in Pakistan & Europe

October 26, 2024 Article

About six weeks ago, a 32 year old doctor in the Sindh province in Pakistan was shot by police. Shah Nawaz was killed by police who suggested that he was resisting arrest after being accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The blasphemy charge was that he had shared ‘blasphemous’ content on social media. Nawaz’s family […]

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Pakistan’s government reaches deal with Islamists to end protest

October 31, 2021 Article

Pakistan’s government and an outlawed radical Islamist party reached an agreement to end a 10-day long, and at times deadly violent, rally calling for the closure of France’s embassy and the release of the party’s leader. Neither foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi nor religious leader Mufti Muneebur Rehman, who took part in the talks, gave […]

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