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Everlasting Love? Muslims and Citizenship in the UK and the Decline of Minority Rights
With a general election looming in the UK, Arzu Merali overviews the findings of the IHRC research project British Muslims’ Expectations of the Government (BMEG), and asks where the ideal of effective citizenship has gone?
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Gaza – One Year On
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Brixton, Berkeley and Other Roads to Radicalisation
From Cultures of Resistance, Volume 1, Issue 1
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Nightmares – How Gaza offends us all
Jennifer Loewenstein brilliantly illustrates the horrors of living under fire and portrays the Palestinians of Gaza as a people abandoned by the world to the murderous Israeli occupation, but whose will to resist strengthens with each atrocity committed against them.
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Aliens in Their Own Country
Polarisation in social opinions about Muslims are driving isolation, argues IHRC’s Massoud Shadjareh.
Citizen Ali
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Arzu Merali looks at the doublespeak relating to Muslims and citizensip in the UK.
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Muslims in 21st Century Britain: Assimilation or Extermination?
Basic Islamic principles and values of both a personal and political nature are being demonised and stigmatised to such an extent that the very definition of the word ‘Islam’ is at stake. Such an ostensible loathing for ‘the Other’ must not be seen as assimilation but extermination in the same way it was seen in Nazi Europe, Rwanda and the Balkans, argues Fahad Ansari.
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