Faisal Bodi argues that minorities should not shy from using communal vernacular to express political dissent, despite the decision to prosecute Mareiha Hussain I have a very personal interest in the case against Mareiha Hussain. This week, the 37 year-old schoolteacher was charged with a
Faisal Bodi looks back at the case of Islmaophobic hate crime victim Mohammed Saleem, and asks why so little has changed since his murder.
Today’s announcement by Michael Gove that the government is widening the definition of extremism to catch mostly mainstream Muslim organisations is the latest in a series of Islamophobic measures seeking to exclude Muslims from public life. The blackballing of Muslim groups as a threat to
The government’s announcement of a £117m funding package for mosque security is a bribe which only serves to highlight the disdain with which Muslims are treated. Instead of genuinely consulting the Muslim community and engaging with it to plan and deliver its own security as
IHRC welcomes the statement of the United Nations calling on states to respect and enable the rights of everyone to freedom of peaceful assembly, association and expression. The statement is a direct response to the alarming level of repression by many state authorities of the
IHRC wrote to the Charity Commission on 19 January 2024 regarding fundraising for the Israeli Defense Forces being facilitated by a UK based charity, UK Toremet (charity registration number 1140972). The text of the letter is pasted below. We are compelled to write to you
The government decision to proscribe as “terrorist” the political group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is an authoritarian and flagrantly Islamophobic act that seeks to stifle opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. By banning an organisation that the government itself has acknowledged is non-violent, British authorities are
A new report by IHRC documents the alarming level of repression by authorities in the UK, France and Germany of the freedom of their inhabitants to support Palestinian rights. Since the Israeli genocide against Gaza began in October last year, the treatment of Palestine advocates
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