Watch Sadek Hamid and Tahir Abbas talk about their book Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context with Ahmed Uddin, on Thursday 25 April. The discussion began around the relationship with Britain and its former colonies throughout the Muslim world and the history
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.
In our desire to appease and please, we also erase our own selves, our histories, our stories, scrapping between us instead for recognition from those who will never give it, and who do not deserve our legitimisation.
The British state displaces its pro-Israel commitments onto ‘the Jewish community’, constructed as Zionist and thus vulnerable to antisemitism. This provides a convenient shield for the state’s partnership with the Zionist colonisation project. This agenda aggravates societal divisions – frightening Jews and dividing them from each other, while also separating them from the Left and Muslims.
Islamic Human Rights Commission 21 January 2019 PRESS RELEASE – UK: New report intensifies squeeze on Muslim CSO space Beleaguered Muslim organisations, already squeezed by a shrinking civil society space, are the target of a new report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Islamic Human Rights Commission 10 January 2019 PRESS RELEASE – UK: Opposition urged to address exclusion of Muslims from policy-making IHRC has written to the political opposition urging it to urgently confront the shrinking political space available for civil society organisations in the country. Prompted
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
Press TV’s Robert Carter discusses the latest briefing from IHRC on the restrictions being placed on, and marginalisation of civil society organisations in the UK. Read IHRC’s briefing here, and watch the 3 minute report below.
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