15 April 2019 PRESS RELEASE IHRC has written to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid asking why he has failed to respond adequately to a letter asking why his office has allocated tens of millions of pounds to ensure the security of Britain’s Jewish communities
Comments made in the wake of the New Zealand terrorist attack by Britain’s counter-terrorism chief, Neil Basu, that the mainstream media is responsible for radicalising far right extremists are too little too late. Basu criticised outlets such as Mail Online which uploaded the ‘manifesto’ of
Islamic Human Rights Commission 7 March 2019 IHRC has written to the Charity Commission accusing it of Islamophobia and double standards in its dealings with the organisation’s charitable arm. The letter follows communication between the Commission and the Daily Telegraph last week, on the basis
Asim Qureshi joined IHRC to discuss his book ‘A Virtue of Disobedience’ on 8 October 2018. Quresihi joined us to discuss his latest book reflecting on injustice in the world he sees around him. He spoke with Muneeza Rizvi and answered questions from the room
Arzu Merali argues that the UK’s ban on Hizbullah is the result in part of a capitulation to right wing thuggery and minority Zionist voices. In 2006, there was a war – another onslaught by the invincible Israeli war machine. Despite a media bias so palpable that even the BBC found itself guilty in a review of its coverage of Israel-Palestine affairs, people did not care for the aggressors.
The report’s publication was timely as just weeks earlier IHRC published a briefing analysing how the label “extremism” was being used to elbow Muslim organisations out of policymaking.
Institutionalised Islamophobia has contributed to hate crimes, discrimination and the exclusion of Muslims from political spaces, argues Arzu Merali Where to start or finish a year’s overview of Islamophobia in the UK? We can focus on the comments of various public figures, not least
Muslim groupings are at the sharp end of a narrowing space for CSOs engendered by a growing environment of hate
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