Islamophobia Conference 2019: Islamophobia and Shrinking Civil Society Spaces
December 9, 2019
The sixth annual IHRC Islamophobia Conference on Saturday, 14 December 2019.
Shrinking Spaces
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
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