{"id":30644,"date":"2026-05-24T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=30644"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:09:22","slug":"faith-leaders-criticise-tommy-robinson-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=30644","title":{"rendered":"Faith\u00a0leaders criticise Tommy Robinson invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Steven and Imam Monawar Hussain have issued a statement criticising the decision of the Oxford Union to invite Tommy Robinson to speak at the University of Oxford debating society on 28 May.<\/p>\n<p>The co-chairs of the Oxfordshire Faith and Civic Leaders Forum and the Thames Valley Faith and Civic Leaders Forum said in their statement: &#8220;As faith and civic leaders across Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley we stand together against hatred, racism and those who would divide our communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They described the invitation as &#8220;untimely and divisive&#8221; and called for it to be withdrawn &#8220;for the sake of this city and its peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anglican.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=14501d5eebc3e98fa3015a290&amp;id=9c49afdca9&amp;e=2732fe43d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Read the full statement.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Steven and Imam Monawar Hussain have issued a statement criticising the decision of the Oxford Union to invite Tommy Robinson to speak at the University of Oxford debating society on 28 May. The co-chairs of the Oxfordshire Faith and Civic Leaders Forum and the Thames Valley Faith and Civic Leaders Forum said in their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":30645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,372,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-diocesan-news","category-news","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30646,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions\/30646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}