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PODCAST: Santiago Slabodsky – Are Muslims the new Jews?

[June 2019] Professor Santiago Slabodsky joins Arzu Merali to discuss this phrase often used in activism. Slabodsky argues that shared histories of co-racialisation mean that the ways of seeing both Muslims and Jews in the modern Western psyche should worry us all. Keywords: Muslims, Jews,

The Times and the targeting of dissenting Muslim voices

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

Demand for an apology and clarification from The Times

IHRC has had sight of an email from the Islamic Human Rights Commission Trust chair to The Times dated today 10 October 2019.  The email demands the issuing of an apology regarding the misleading story about IHRCT that claims it is “taxpayer funded”.  Inter alia

On The Times, Andrew Norfolk and the Paucity of Power

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

China: Demand OIC and African Union take action for the Uighurs

China: Demand OIC, NAM and African Union take action for the Uighurs Summary Background Action Summary IHRC is calling on campaigners to demand key Muslim countries, non-aligned countries (NAM), the OIC and relevant international organisations demand China ends its persecution of the Uighurs.  Many Muslim