Tag: MINORITY
Representation matters! (Except when it doesn’t)
If one is required to leave so much of their self at the door before stepping in to ‘represent’ their community, how impactful and authentic can such representation actually be?
Yasir Qadhi & Tariq Ramadan – Is France in crisis? | Unscripted #65
Prof Tariq Ramadan & Sh Yasir Qadhi join each other publicly for the first time...
China’s Concentration Camps: What Can We Do?
“We are witness to the ‘largest industrial scale persecution of a religious minority since the Holocaust’ and we find Muslim leaders, at best, staying silent, and at worst, speaking in support of such persecution!”
Why the Muslim World is Silent Over China’s Repression of Uyghurs
The silence of Muslim-majority states over China's repression of Uyghurs is not due to ignorance, writes Lukman Harees, but a calculated political and economic decision.
Sri Lanka’s 1000-year-old Muslim community is the latest target of Buddhist nationalism
Imported and manufactured Islamophobia is making one of Sri Lanka's oldest communities feel besieged in their own home...
Statement from Muslim Doctors Association on Dr Bawa-Garba Case
Did institutional racism have a part to play in the scapegoating of Black Muslim Doctor Hadiza Bawa-Garba?
Rotherham Grooming: Inconvenient Facts EXPOSED
Rotherham grooming. We really should have read the Jay Report. This week three brothers were given a 19 to 35 year imprisonment sentence for their abhorrent abuse of vulnerable young girls in Rotherham. A sensitive topic, and one that in no way detracts from the stories of the victims, is…
An Eloquent Rhyme for a Troubling Time
Allow me to share a melody, a symphony of smoke screens and tyranny, Marginalising a people till they are left with no humanity, subject to abuse...devoid of sanity. A phobia widespread, filled with anarchy; poisonous rhetoric and barbarity, Cleverly disguised as a means to force agendas and the accumulation of…
Do Muslims belong in the West?
All Praise belongs to Allāh, Lord of the worlds. May His peace and blessings be upon His final messenger, Muhammad (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam). Do Muslims belong in the West? That the sahāba were the best of mankind after the prophets and messengers is widely known. Not only is their…
How China Banned Ramadan
How China Banned Ramadan - Beijing’s PREVENT Strategy Today, there can be little doubt that Islam and its symbols are under attack all over the world. Islam and Muslims are being demonised, their persecution legalised, the spilling of their blood is justified, and in some parts of the world, the very worship…