The Long View

Finding Happiness: New Ways to Break the Muslim Housing Crisis

The UK housing crisis has detrimentally impacted racialised minorities more than most. For Muslims, the private sector has struggled to offer genuine solutions to the problems presented by an interest-based economy while structural racism continues to block access to the public sector. Faisal Bodi surveys

A Basic Part of Faith: The Foundation Of Islamic Unity

In this extract from ‘A Quest for Unity’ Imam Achmad Cassiem discusses the basis of unity from Islamic sources.  As Hajj approaches, his words give pause for reflection for the ummah.   The foundation of Islamic unity is Islam itself. We needn’t look for any

On the pitfalls of culturalized religion

The twin processes of inter-cultural communication and the demand for minority rights are problematised by Linda Hyökki using the case study of Finland.  Are Muslims losing the religious meaning to their public performance of faith? As we are approach the Holy Month of Ramadan in

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