Tag: NEOCON

War on Terror 2.0 to be “Global War on Islam”

Quratulayn Haamidah 17 Min Read

Reality shows are supposed to convey a sense of reality using “real-life” people. The “reality” is, however, that the shows are as real as the statements coming forth from the mouths of politicians. This is the case in a post-modern age when

IERA vindicated after three-year long investigation by Charity Commission?

Nabeel Akhtar 8 Min Read

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

PREVENT: Reform or Reject

Alim Hasan Islam 8 Min Read

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

Why I am against grammar schools

Reem Ahmed 17 Min Read

Meritocratic Society or Politics in Play? On the 12th of September 2016, PM Theresa May unveiled plans to lift the near 20-year ban introduced by Labour in 1998 against opening new grammar

“Burkini” – A Look at Modernity’s Domination and Control

ʿAbd Allāh Nūr al-Dīn 25 Min Read

I have been avoiding the “burkini” debacle for a while as I have posted on the topic of veiling and the French colonialist fetish for denuding women before. But as France continues

The Bloody Legacy of Western Imperialism in Iraq

Dr. Izzadeen Chowdhury 17 Min Read

The story of the Iraq War did not start in 2003. Indeed, it started many years before with the sanctions placed upon Iraq during the 1st Gulf War.

Manufacturing the Muslim Enemy

Muhammad Thomson 20 Min Read

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

I’m a non-binary Briton. And proud.

Muhammad Thomson 11 Min Read

All this hype about Muslims not being British enough reminds me of Barack Obama’s 50% white heritage and the question that no one asks: Just how white do you have to be

Podcast – Was the government caught deceiving Muslims?

Dr. Salman Butt 1 Min Read

https://soundcloud.com/islam21c/podcast-was-the-government-caught-deceiving-muslims Why did the government go to such great lengths to cover up its covert funding of some "independent Muslim organisations"? Click above to listen to the latest podcast with your host

Is David Cameron OK with “an” Islamic State then?

Dilly Hussain 6 Min Read

On Wednesday 20 April 2016, David Cameron defamed Imām Sulaiman Ghani from Tooting at Prime Minister's Questions as an "IS supporter" - a popular acronym for ISIS. Downing Street's Press Office later clarified