Ireland’s failure to gather statistics on hate crime and discrimination against Muslims amounts to institutional racism, according to a pioneering research project which will be unveiled at University College Cork on Saturday.

The amount of negative stories about Muslims in the UK was demonising a whole religion the Leveson Inquiry has heard.

In an exclusive interview with Parliamentary Under Secretary for Crime and Security at the Home Office, James Brokenshire, Editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi, discussed a variety of issues, in particular the Coalition Government’s Prevent Extremism strategy which has been expanded to include non-violent extremism.

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Youth Work and Islam, considers how youth work can be informed by Islam but at the same time looks at how practice can be pertinent to young Muslims, their community and relationship with wider society.  In this book Sadek Hamid and Brian Belton bring together a range of thinkers and practitioners who exemplify and analyse this situation. This not only produces much more than a straightforward view of informed practice, it also presents a broad and humane understanding of the character and possibilities of youth work over a broad perspective.

Centrally, while the work demonstrates how Islam and Muslims have contributed to the development of youth work, it also puts forward ideas and standpoints that demonstrate how Islam can continue to inform practice, add to its humanitarian ethos and even make our work with young people in general more effective.  As such, Youth Work and Islam is an essential part of any youth worker’s reading, working within and beyond Muslim contexts.  It is also a useful and readable text for social workers, teachers, police officers, clerics, medical professionals and anyone wanting a more informed understanding of how faith perspectives can inform and refresh attitudes, approaches and enhance work with individuals, groups and communities.

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