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In the first part of this essay I claimed that discourses shape the scope of our vision as well as…

It was, as historians will undoubtedly claim, a historic event, a time when democracy prevailed and the demarcation of race…

These are the democracies that gave us Guantanamo bay, Abu Ghuraib, Camp Breadbasket and internment without trial. Even if Muslims do want to make a democratic choice, and get the rare chance to exercise it, their choice never seems to be quite good enough…

…the discourse is not shaped by everyone equally, and thus the very discourse that seeks to explain and discuss the topic of integration, ends up establishing a differential of power…

Last week, Dr Farhan Nizami was quoted by the Telegraph1 as saying that Muslim parents are to blame for leaving…

Abdullah Quilliam titled ‘Shaykh-ul-Islam of the British Isles’ by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, was a 19th century convert…

Introduction Allah the Most High stated in surah An-Najm: And he does not speak of his own desire. It is…

 “We were a people of Jahiliyyah, worshipping idols, eating the flesh of dead animals, committing abominations, neglecting our relatives, doing…

Muslims in the UK have been extremely assertive over the past two decades in dismissing media representations and stereotypes which…

History teaches many things. Prominently, we might say that it teaches us that nations rise and fall. When nations fall,…