IHRC concerned about knee jerk reactions. IHRC is concerned by some of the knee-jerk and tendentious reactions arising from the convictions of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich last May by people claiming to be “soldiers of Allah”. Politicians, pundits, the media and the anti-terrorism industry appear to be exploiting the public revulsion generated by the case to press for another government crackdown on the Muslim community. 

Malaysian ruling party wants to amend constitution inserting the term Sunni after the word Islam as official religion. 

We regret the suggestion by the Deputy President of UMNO Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to amend the Federal Constitution to guarantee that the teaching of Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah is the faith of Muslims in Malaysia and we appeal to him to reconsider it because it has serious implications on Muslim unity and Malaysia’s international commitments.

FCO failure to support Abbas Khan not unusual. IHRC finds entirely plausible the criticism being made of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that it failed to do enough to support and secure the release of British doctor Abbas Khan who died this week in Syrian custody.

Press Release: UK – New anti-extremism measures persecute Muslims

20% off, so hurry while stocks last. IHRC is happy to inform you that the Decolonising Education pack is now back in stock. The pack is being sold at a 20% discount than if the items were bought individually. We will ship worldwide, and you can pay by credit or debit card or PAYPAL.

The Decolonising Education pack contains seven Citizens International Pamphlets and two books: Pedagogy of Indignation and Decolonising the University. It is a must buy for students, parents and teachers interested in deconstructing modern schooling and educational institutions and reconstructing ways of learning and education that are dedicated to liberation both socially and politically.

Alert: Myanmar / UN – Appeal against choice of Myanmar leader Suu Kyi to head anti-discrimination campaign

Join us in the hall or on-line for GMD. 

Date: Sunday 19th January 2014
Time: 14:30pm – 19:30
Venue: University College London, Cruciform Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Streamed live on www.ihrc.tv  This year, simultaneous events will be taking place in Paris and Amsterdam.

8 January 2014 @ IHRC, 202 Preston Road, Wembley, HA9 8PA, UK. A film written and directed by Turab Shah and produced by Islamic Human Rights Commission. IHRC will be holding an exclusive screening at the IHRC Bookshop and Gallery of a director’s cut of this important new documentary produced by IHRC, followed by a Q & A session with the producers, activists and authors working on issues related to the content of the film.

Join us for the one off event starting at 6.45pm, or watch the Q&A session live from 8pm GMT on Wednesday 8 January on www.ihrc.tv.  If you want to attend the screening, please emailevents@ihrc.org to confirm your place.

NB: This is not our event, we are promoting it. Organised by Dialogo Global

Faculty includes Tariq Ramadan, Ramon Grosfoguel-Salman Sayyid, Houria Bouteldja and IHRC’s Arzu Merali.

The Center for the Study of Intercultural Dialogues (Granada, Spain) http://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada is now accepting applications for the 2014 two-week summer institute, Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival. Moreover, as a strong commitment to a vision of Critical Muslim Studies there are two symposiums organized inside the summer school every year: one on Islamic Feminism led by Asma Lamrabet (Directrice du Centre des Etudes Féminines en Islam au sein de la Rabita Mohammadia des ulémas du Maroc:http://www.annisae.ma/ ) and the other on Radical Muslim Reform led by Tariq Ramadan (Director of The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) in Qatar: http://cilecenter.org/ ). 

Coming to IHRC in 2014. Artist Mohammad Hamza joins us at the IHRC Gallery in Wembley, North West London in March 2014 to showcase his revolutionary arts. Watch this space for more information in the coming weeks.

As well as; Genocide Memorial Day, Sunday 19 January in London and other European cities and Islamophobia Awards, 14 February 2014

Now accepting applications! 

NB: This is not our event, we are promoting it.

June 23 – July 4, 2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Now in its 7th year, the overall goal of this intensive two week course is to examine the contemporary circumstances of the African Diaspora in Europe. We will focus on the historical and colonial legacies of European countries to discuss the origins of Black Europe and investigate the impact of these legacies on policies and legislation today. 

20% off, so hurry while stocks last. IHRC is happy to inform you that the Decolonising Education pack is now back in stock. The pack is being sold at a 20% discount than if the items were bought individually. We will ship worldwide, and you can pay by credit or debit card or PAYPAL.

The Decolonising Education pack contains seven Citizens International Pamphlets and two books: Pedagogy of Indignation and Decolonising the University. It is a must buy for students, parents and teachers interested in deconstructing modern schooling and educational institutions and reconstructing ways of learning and education that are dedicated to liberation both socially and politically.

Titles included in the pack:

•  White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of Higher Education by Ward Churchill
• Redefining Education: Why we must disestablish school by Ivan Illich
• Digital Diploma Mills by David F. Noble
• Exorcising Anthropology’s Demons by Frederique Apfell-Marglin& Margaret Bruchac
• The De-Westernization of Knowledge by Naquib al-Attas
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Ending Academic Imperialism…a beginning by C K Raju
• Decolonising the University: The Emerging Quest for Non-Eurocentric Paradigm edited by Claude Alvares & Shad Saleem Faruqi
• Pedagogy of Indignation by Paulo Freire 

To buy the pack online follow this link http://shop.ihrc.org/decolonising-education-pack