Islamophobia

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

Road to Ramadan

There are a number announcements that we would like to share with you. Author Evening with Shahd Alshammari – Head Above Water Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society’s stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to

Combat Attack On Muslim Children’s Education in Sweden

Background The current Right-Wing coalition ruling Sweden, elected in 2018, has now closed 17 out of the 19 Islamic schools in the country. This vicious attack on Islam is part of a growing trend of Anti-Muslim hate across the continent and around the World. Among

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

How the Govt Tried To Silence Activism in 2022

This year we have talked about many different issues. In the UK we have seen genuine Muslim organisations targeted, pro-Palestinian Jews be smeared as anti-Semitic and the right to protest and strike being targeted by new legislation. The government is trying to suffocate activism in