Last month a Syrian refugee boy was attacked in his school playground and his sister as well. The two incidents were filmed and spread across social media, showing the bully threatening to drown his victim. Now, a month on, the mainstream media are reporting the incident and police are only now reportedly charging the 16-year-old instigator.

Your article, ‘Extremists Hizb ut-Tahrir targeting inner-city youth in Birmingham,’ in The Times on 22 September 2018 reads like a masterclass in misleading propaganda, which would appear to be one in a series of recent pieces of a similar nature.

I am writing to you to complain about the article on your website entitled “Manchester mosque sermon 'called for armed jihad', say scholars.” It appears to be a feeble attempt to prevent real discussion about the colonial role of Western governments in the oppression overseas, and to distort the Islamic concepts regarding the role of Muslims in addressing such oppression.

We received an email from a Daily Mail journalist asking us to respond to a number of allegations before he publishes an article at the weekend. Here is our response.