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
IHRC is urging the Conservative government not to go ahead with reported plans to proscribe the political wing of the Lebanese party Hizbullah
The series represents how it just gets harder by the minute to be a Muslim represented or included in the national conversation
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