Media watchdog accuses The Times of ‘scapegoating’ Muslims
RUPERT MURDOCH’S media empire has been accused of stirring up hatred after The Times claimed a leading Islamic bank was financing extremist groups.
The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) warned that the Times’s chief investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk was “scapegoating” Muslims.
In his latest story he claims that Britain’s oldest Islamic bank, Al Rayan, provides accounts to extremist Muslim groups.
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