Tag Archives: RACISM

UPDATE: The police chief is reported to have avoided the event after pressure – read more The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), the country’s leading Muslim representative body, has criticised a top Metropolitan police chief for his decision to speak ...

In 2003, a motion to twin Preston with the city of Nablus was tabled and debated by Preston City Council.  It was a motion which was proposed by a good friend of mine, Councillor Michael Lavalette.  It was one of ...

New antisemitism definition has been used as a reason to prohibit a Palestinian rights talk at a UK university Vocal support for Palestine. Opposition to Israeli settlements in Gaza. Criticisms of wars in the Middle East. These are just some ...

If Hitler were alive today he would be delighted to see how fast and far Europe is progressing down his preferred path. I suspect he would have particularly liked the phrase “multiculturalism has failed”. It might remind him of the time ...

We are a popular bunch, aren’t we?  Every so often a “documentary”, poll, media debate or op-ed crops up which thrusts some 5% of Britain’s population back in the scrutinising docks where everything, from our revelatory texts and views, to ...

Islamophobia Awareness Month #IAM2016 Islamophobia has been described as “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” Really? Women are having their hijabs pulled off as they go about their everyday business. Muslims are targeted with ...

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.[1] It ...

Click above to watch the video or below to download the podcast Ammar Waraich from the Malik El-Shabbazz Initiative (MESI) interviews Islam21c’s Chief Editor, Dr Salman Butt, on so-called ‘radicalisation’, universities and the Prevent Strategy.  MESI is a new project, ...

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 to embarrass itself by bullying women into stripping ...

Following the panic that ensued when the Brexit vote results were announced, the tide has calmed and reflective analyses are slowly being formed. One question circulating the forums is what the likely impact of the vote to leave the European ...