Islamophobia Conference 2019: Islamophobia and Shrinking Civil Society Spaces

December 9, 2019

The sixth annual IHRC Islamophobia Conference on Saturday, 14 December 2019.

Corbyn and Anti-Semitism – Prof Gus John answers Archbishop Welby

November 29, 2019

Esteemed academic Professor Gus John resigned last week from a Church of England advisory body in response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvi’s intervention in The Times calling on Jews not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.

On Islamophobia, Britishness and the shrinking political space

October 17, 2019

Islamophobia has always needed to be understood as part of the deeper crisis of the political and social culture we live in, argues Arzu Merali. I have been swotting up on Jerusalem for my youngest’s A-Levels this month. I would rather abstractly debate whether the

The Times and the targeting of dissenting Muslim voices

October 16, 2019

Faisal Bodi, from the Islamic Human Rights Commission, says a recent attack on his organisation by The Times newspaper is symptomatic of an Establishment that seeks to drive dissenting Muslim voices out of the public space. It’s somewhat perverse that The Times should draw on George

On The Times, Andrew Norfolk and the Paucity of Power

October 10, 2019

In reference to The Times reporting and leading comment regarding IHRC on 10 October 2019, IHRC stated: It matters little that e.g. the charity that gives its money to IHRC is in fact the charitable arm of IHRC registered under the direction and full supervision

Seen but not heard: The Commission for Countering Extremism or the Mission to Close Political Space

October 7, 2019

The second tranche of reports from CCE landed this morning. Like its previous set of documents these articles show only that the CCE’s mission to delegitimise political debate that opposes the incumbent government’s domestic and foreign policies. Aside from attacks on Muslim civil society (almost

A Fly Girl’s Guide to University

August 1, 2019

The blog is back, and what a way to start. Dear Friends, Peace! Just a quick reminder about tonight’s event at the IHRC Bookshop and Gallery. We are delighted to have Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Waithera Sebatindira and Lola Olufemi, to discuss their book A FLY Girl’s Guide

IHRC in Henry Jackson Society’s sights – again

June 3, 2019

Faisal Bodi sets HJS’ latest conspiracist claims in context. The inveterate Islamophobes in the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) are at it again. Having savaged almost the entire gamut of Muslim civil society organisations, the pseudo think-thank whose leaders have called Muslims in Europe a “demographic