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Protests against far-right figure Tommy Robinson are picking up pace in Oxford, where shops and pubs have been boarded up as a precaution. Part of Oxford is in a lockdown ahead of the controversial debate involving Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is due to discuss Islam at the union. His invitation to discuss whether the West is ‘right to be suspicious of Islam’ along with Laurence Fox has caused outrage and calls for the talk to be cancelled. Jacob Rees-Mogg, activist Abdullah al Andalusi and podcaster Michael Doward willAnti-racist groups shouted ‘Oxford is anti-fascist’ and ‘racist scum off our...

Environment Minister says his party has been infiltrated by a fundamentalist Muslim group that wants to create an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain. The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly, to be able to achieve “mass mobilisation” of voters. Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Jim Fitzpatrick, the Environment Minister, said the IFE had become, in effect, a secret party within Labour and other political parties....