
Islamophobia Conference 2019: Islamophobia and Shrinking Civil Society Spaces
The sixth annual IHRC Islamophobia Conference on Saturday, 14 December 2019.

The sixth annual IHRC Islamophobia Conference on Saturday, 14 December 2019.

Faisal Bodi sets HJS’ latest conspiracist claims in context. The inveterate Islamophobes in the Henry Jackson Society (HJS) are at it again. Having savaged almost the entire gamut of Muslim civil society organisations, the pseudo think-thank whose leaders have called Muslims in Europe a “demographic

The report’s publication was timely as just weeks earlier IHRC published a briefing analysing how the label “extremism” was being used to elbow Muslim organisations out of policymaking.

The British state displaces its pro-Israel commitments onto ‘the Jewish community’, constructed as Zionist and thus vulnerable to antisemitism. This provides a convenient shield for the state’s partnership with the Zionist colonisation project. This agenda aggravates societal divisions – frightening Jews and dividing them from each other, while also separating them from the Left and Muslims.

Muslim groupings are at the sharp end of a narrowing space for CSOs engendered by a growing environment of hate

PREVENT has become an aggressive social engineering and spying exercise
The government’s Prevent programme is a byword for institutional discrimination against Muslims and part of a cynical social engineering exercise, argues the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s Faisal Bodi

Narjis Khan reflect on the United Nations’ response to international ‘terrorism’ following 9/11. Download the PDF here

Maina Kiai criticised the ever-widening PREVENT strategy for its Orwellian impact on free speech and its effect on Britain’s Muslim minority

Maina Kiai criticised the ever-widening PREVENT strategy for its Orwellian impact on free speech and its effect on Britain’s Muslim minority




