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  "en": "The Muslim News (2018): Home Secretary Javid hits back at those questioning his faith"
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  "ar": "تقرير «مسلم نيوز» عن كلمة ساجد جاويد في حفل الإفطار الكبير بمجلس العموم في 5 حزيران 2018، حيث أصرّ على أنه «أول وزير داخلية مسلم يُدعى» إلى الإفطار وقال «علاقتي بالله شأني الخاص»، وينقل قوله في لقاء انتخابي سنة 2010: «تراث عائلتي مسلم... لكني لا أمارس أي دين».",
  "en": "The Muslim News report of Sajid Javid's speech at the Big Iftar in the House of Commons on 5 June 2018, where he insisted he was the first Muslim Home Secretary to be invited and said his relationship with God was his own business, and of his 2010 hustings statement that his family's heritage is Muslim but he does not practise any religion."
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  "title": "Home Secretary Javid hits back at those questioning his faith",
  "author": [
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    "family": "Versi",
    "given": "Ahmed J"
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  "publisher": "The Muslim News",
  "URL": "https://muslimnews.co.uk/newspaper/home-news/home-secretary-javid-hits-back-questioning-faith/",
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  "reliability_note": "Report by Ahmed J Versi in The Muslim News, the British Muslim newspaper, read in full on 1 November 2026; the page as retrieved carries no visible date, so issued is omitted (merged precedent for undated web pages) - it reports the Big Iftar of 5 June 2018 and quotes a hustings of 22 April 2010. It quotes Javid in his own words on both sides of his position: at the iftar he claimed to be 'the first Muslim Home Secretary to be invited', spoke of 'being a Muslim in Great Britain' and said 'My relationship with God is my business as is yours'; in 2010 he said 'My own family's heritage is Muslim. Myself and my four brothers were brought up to believe in God, but I do not practise any religion.' No unbelief is professed in either statement, so the Akhundov bar for atheist-or-sceptic is not met; both statements are preserved in full in the person record.",
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 "updated": "2026-11-01",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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