{"id":371863,"date":"2018-08-02T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-robinsons-release-legitimizes-islamophobia\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T20:09:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T19:09:01","slug":"presstv-robinsons-release-legitimizes-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-robinsons-release-legitimizes-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Robinson\u2019s release legitimizes Islamophobia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An expert tells Press TV that the release from jail of a top racist and Islamophobic figure in Britain is a ploy to legitimize the Islamophobia campaign in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Catherine Shakdom, who serves as director of Shafaqna Institute for Mideast Studies in London, said Thursday that a court\u2019s decision to release Tommy Robinson on bail a day earlier was in line with the general political agenda in Britain and other Western countries to stigmatize the Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow else would you want to understand his release other than somehow legitimization of Islomophobia,\u201d said Shakdom, calling Robinson a fascist who constantly spreads hate against Muslims and other minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Shakdom elaborated on the fact that there was a huge public and political pressure, especially from the alt-right camp in the United States, to have Robinson released, claiming that the court and the British judicial authorities had been influenced by the pro-Robinson&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/02\/570022\/Robinson-release-UK-jail-Islamophobia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert tells Press TV that the release from jail of a top racist and Islamophobic figure in Britain is a ploy to legitimize the Islamophobia campaign in the country. Catherine Shakdom, who serves as director of Shafaqna Institute for Mideast Studies in London, said Thursday that a court\u2019s decision to release Tommy Robinson on [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371863","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=371863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}