Imams, with the city council and police, have signed a joint statement urging members of the community not to join the extremist Muslim group. “We are united in our condemnation of hatred, violence and racism. We are united in our condemnation of the group known as the Islamic State,” the statement read. The comments come with the news that a fourth man from Portsmouth has been killed in the Syrian conflict. A photograph of the body of Mehdi Hassan, 19, was published on Twitter on October 17. “Support for the group which calls itself Islamic State or Caliphate is...
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