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:Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]]. | :Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the [[Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia]]. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the [[Stephen Lawrence Inquiry]], and chair of both the [[Uniting Britain Trust]], and the [[Jewish Council for Racial Equality]]. | ||
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Revision as of 16:16, 18 March 2024
- Stone was born in London. His father, Joseph Stone, one of the first doctors to enter Belsen after its liberation in 1945, became Harold Wilson’s personal physician and was made a life peer in 1976. His mother, Beryl, was the sister of Sidney Bernstein, the founder of Granada Television.[1]
- Stone was a member and later chair of the Runnymede Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Its 1997 report was credited with introducing the term “Islamophobia” into discussion of the issue and promoting understanding of Muslims in the UK. He had the role with the Board of Deputies of British Jews of establishing relationships with other faiths and was the president of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality. Using those links, in 2003 he founded Alif-Aleph – the first letters of the alphabet in Hebrew and Arabic – the manifesto of which proclaimed that “we have a common experience of having to address hostilities that derive from mistaken stereotypes of our religions and our cultures”.
- Its key document, A Mapping Report of Positive Contacts between British Muslims and British Jews, became a template in 2007 for a similar project in the European Union.
- He became an honorary fellow of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, which was set up in 2007 as a partner to the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations.[1]
- Islamophobia: issues, challenges and action. A Report by the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia ROBIN RICHARDSON (Ed.), with HUGH MUIR & LAURA SMITH, 2004 Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham/London: Uniting Britain Trust 92 pp., ISBN 1 85856 317 8 (pb), £12.99 This is the report of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia. Dr Richard Stone chaired the commission (an adviser to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, and chair of both the Uniting Britain Trust, and the Jewish Council for Racial Equality.
