{"id":269760,"date":"2016-09-27T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-muslims-no-longer-trust-police-due-to-discrimination-burnham\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:18:13","slug":"uk-muslims-no-longer-trust-police-due-to-discrimination-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uk-muslims-no-longer-trust-police-due-to-discrimination-burnham\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Muslims no longer trust police due to discrimination: Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The UK government\u2019s so-called \u201cPrevent\u201d policy has alienated Muslims across Britain to a point that they no longer trust the British law enforcement, says prominent Labour lawmaker Andy Burnham.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a conference organized by a non-profit called Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), Burnham called for a \u201croot and branch review\u201d of the government\u2019s constant monitoring of Muslim communities so that the real extent of Islamophobic crimes in the country could be measured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people have a feeling that the bodies that they would go to are also simultaneously being asked to monitor them there\u2019s a possible conflict of interest there isn\u2019t there?\u201d the shadow home secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen people won\u2019t feel able to come forward and say exactly what\u2019s happening to them and their family if they also feel they\u2019re being monitored in some way,\u201d he noted before proposing a third-party agency that would allow Muslims to bypass&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/09\/27\/486569\/UK-Muslims-Burnham-Labour-MEND\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government\u2019s so-called \u201cPrevent\u201d policy has alienated Muslims across Britain to a point that they no longer trust the British law enforcement, says prominent Labour lawmaker Andy Burnham. Speaking at a conference organized by a non-profit called Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), Burnham called for a \u201croot and branch review\u201d of the government\u2019s constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}