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Independent report: Understanding and responding to blasphemy extremism

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This paper explores anti-blasphemy activism in the UK, its networks and international influences, and looks at 3 flashpoint incidents.

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Anti-blasphemy activism in the UK is increasingly organised and radicalised. It is having significant impacts on those affected by it, with some members of the public fearful for their lives.

This paper, independently commissioned by the Commission for Countering Extremism, highlights how certain key groups and activists operate.

anti-blasphemy activism in the UK is focused on 2 key issues: the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and non-Muslims who insult Islam

a new generation of UK-based anti-blasphemy activists are aspiring to make blasphemy a central concern for British Muslims

Tehreek-e-Labbaik - an anti-blasphemy political party in Pakistan - appears to be developing a UK presence

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