{"id":49096,"date":"2024-03-11T18:53:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49096"},"modified":"2024-03-11T18:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:53:32","slug":"uk-government-pledges-extra-cash-for-muslims-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49096","title":{"rendered":"UK government pledges extra cash for Muslims&#8217; security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The British government on Monday pledged 117 million pounds ($150 million) towards protecting Muslim communities amid a rise in Islamophobia as it promises more action to tackle extremism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new funding, announced just over a week after extra cash was promised to enhance security for Jewish groups amid soaring anti-Semitism, will be used to protect mosques, Muslim faith schools and other community centres, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Tell Mama, a group which monitors anti-Muslim incidents, said last month there had been a 335% increase in cases since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anti-Muslim hatred has absolutely no place in our society. We will not let events in the Middle East be used as an excuse to justify abuse against British Muslims,&#8221; Home Secretary (interior minister) James Cleverly said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the announcement comes amid repeated accusations of Islamophobia among Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s own governing Conservatives who last month suspended one lawmaker after he said the Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was under the control of Islamists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government on Monday pledged 117 million pounds ($150 million) towards protecting Muslim communities amid a rise in Islamophobia as it promises more action to tackle extremism. The new funding, announced just over a week after extra cash was promised to enhance security for Jewish groups amid soaring anti-Semitism, will be used to protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[757],"class_list":["post-49096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uk-government-pledges-extra-cash-for-muslims-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}