The Long View

On the pitfalls of culturalized religion

The twin processes of inter-cultural communication and the demand for minority rights are problematised by Linda Hyökki using the case study of Finland.  Are Muslims losing the religious meaning to their public performance of faith? As we are approach the Holy Month of Ramadan in

Muslims, Roe and Wade: Time to Rediscover Ways of Thinking Islam

The furore created by the reversing of Roe v. Wade was a US specific debate.  Takings sides, as many Muslims did, has resulted in an obscuring of Islam and the loss of the chance to set an Islamic agenda argues Nargess Moballeghi. Overview The divisive

Muslim Skeptics in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

Omar Hijazi argues that the often sectarianized lens of the Muslim blogosphere is finding its authors and activists in strange harmony with the discourse of the Islamophobic West. In September 2022, popular Muslim website called the Muslim Skeptic published a long rant camouflaged as analysis

Escaping False Paradigms: Ways to Reimagine an Islamic World

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher argues that the utopia of an Islamic future requires conceptualising Islamic solutions to the political, military and economic woes the world faces. Most textbooks on Islam tell us that Islam is a way of life. The briefest of reality checks will tell

My Journey from Marxism to Decolonial Theory

Sandew Hira’s profound recounting of his political and spiritual journey from Marxist to Decolonial thinker and activist, across several decades, challenges those in the current time, who claim that the only challenge to capitalism comes from the left. Introduction On January 15th, 2023 I will

The Shrinking Space for Dissent in Neoliberal Britain

The process of depoliticising Muslims has now been rolled out to the wider UK population, argues Afroze F. Zaidi. Whilst different sections of wider society are pitted against each other by government narratives that stigmatise, divide and rule, Zaidi argues that enough space still exists