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Islamic State

Question for Home Office

UIN HL5406, tabled on 9 February 2017

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 24 January (HL Deb, col 53), and to her Written Answer on 3 February (HL5216), what assessment they have made of the comments made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his lecture at the Catholic Institute of Paris on 17 November 2016, that religious people should move away from the argument that ISIS is nothing to do with Islam.

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23 February 2017

The Archbishop of Canterbury rightly pointed out during his lecture at the Catholic Institute of Paris on 17 November 2016 that we cannot ignore the fact that Daesh claim their actions in the name of Islam.

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