The Long View

The Long View

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

How do we De-Zionise British schools?

As per other post-genocide projects to address the embedded ideologies that dehumanise and legitimise mass murder and wide spread atrocities, societies must in the current moment look to the de-Zionisation of their institutions.  David Miller discussed why this is needed and how it might look

The Media’s Manufacturing of Consent for Genocide in Lebanon

In this study of the colonial contexts of US-backed Israeli atrocities in West Asia, Denijal Jegić analyses the victim-blaming narratives employed by media actors to justify the extension of genocide into Lebanon.    While the Israeli regime continues to commit unspeakable crimes in its genocide