Tag: EXTREMIST
Hindutva Rioters Attack Local Muslims in Leicester
On Saturday night Hindutva thugs marched through the streets of Leicester to violently provoke and taunt local Muslims.
What Have We Learnt From Malcolm X? (Rahimahullah)
In this Face to Face episode, Fahad Ansari discusses some pertinent lessons from the wisdom of Al-Hajj Malik el-Shabbaz, more popularly known as Malcolm X, rahimahullah.
Genocide of the Rohingya: Erdogan insists on a firmer strategy
In light of the recent news of the on-going persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged Muslim countries to help stop the cruelty against the Rohingya Muslims by using “every means available". During the opening session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Astana, President Erdoğan…
Is Radicalisation Real? – Big Discussion Panel – Coming Soon
- Click here to view this BIG Discussion - The Muslim community has been diagnosed with the problem of “radicalisation” by those outside of it, with David Cameron calling it “the greatest struggle of our generation.” But is it real? This panel will explore and critique the unstated presumptions of the…
Pro-Israel group ordered to pay Islam Channel CEO 140k for libel
High Court judge Sir David Eady has ordered the pro-Israel group Stand For Peace to pay £140,000 in damages after wrongfully labelling Islam Channel’s founder as a “convicted terrorist”. The landmark ruling went in favour of Mohamed Ali Harrath, founder and CEO of Islam Channel, against Stand for Peace and…
IERA vindicated after three-year long investigation by Charity Commission?
On Friday 4 November 2016 the Charity Commission published its concluding report into the statutory investigation into the Islamic Education & Research Academy (iERA). This investigation began in 2013 as a result of many malicious allegations against iERA from Islamophobic organisations, thinktanks and journalists, which appear now to have been…
PREVENT: Reform or Reject
PREVENT is dying. We have reached a stage where there is widespread agreement that there are systemic problems with PREVENT. Its decline is to the extent that beneficiaries and proponents of the strategy acknowledge the need to change it. It has taken us as a society almost ten years to…
The Politics of Demonising Dr Zakir Naik
Hindu scholar from India speaks out against the Islamophobic campaign against Dr Zakir Naik Ever since a Bangladeshi newspaper reported that Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik “inspired” Dhaka militants, a new frenzy of Islamophobic discourse has begun in India. The Modi Government was quick to grab this opportunity of Muslim-bashing. Home…
Parliamentary Report Criticises ‘Extremism’ Policies
Today the Joint Committee on Human Rights, made up of members of the House of Lords and House of Commons, released a report which has finally injected some much-needed logic and reason into the “counter-extremism” arena. Many from within and without the Muslim community have welcomed this critical assessment of…
Manufacturing the Muslim Enemy
Islamophobia - a thousand years of deadly lies What we are witnessing in today’s socio-political climate is not the first period of intense propagation of Islamophobia in the West. There have been a few other periods which stand out in history and each is intimately linked with empire. In the…