The Long View

The Long View

The Dajjal Will Need Artificial Intelligence

Looking at end of times narrations in Islam, João Silva Jordão argues that the Dajjal will need Artificial Intelligence to perform his false miracles.  Rather than looking at a scenario where AI goes rogue, perhaps we should be looking at how AI could assist a

Decolonizing The Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Decolonial scholar and theorist Sandew Hira argues all is possible and the future bright in his look at the challenges and opportunities AI offers activists and movements involved in liberation struggles. Introduction AI is taking over the world with breathtaking speed. It is led by

Framing Muslim Converts: Culturally Divergent, Convergent, Or Exceptional?

Based on her PhD study of Finnish converts to Islam, Linda Hyökki argues that understanding the experiences of anti-Muslim racism of those converted from the majority community and those from minoritized Muslim communities, have both overlap and key differences that need to be recognised. Finland’s

The Race Against Racism

The late Imam Achmad Cassiem, leader of the anti-apartheid resistance group Qibla in South Africa, prepared this paper for Islamic Human Rights Commission to present at the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.  Almost 25 years later his analysis of social breakdown based on

Trump, Machiavelli and irrationality in politics

Through belligerent rhetoric, imperial manoeuvres, and a policy of strategic chaos, Sahib Mustaqim Bleher contends that Trump’s America is less an aberration than the clearest expression yet of Machiavellian rule by a wealthy elite. But Trump’s chaotic politics represent not just the ruthless logic of