Volume 7 – Issue 1

Volume 7 – Issue 1

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