Several Australian Muslim groups have slammed Prime Minister Scott Morrison over his speech on the knife attack that took place on 9 November on Bourke Street in...
Read More »Muslims Like Us or Muslims Not Like Us?
If you’re anything like me you might have switched off the telly after watching the BBC’s latest Islamophilic-offering ‘Muslims Like Us’, in the midst of some serious epistemological doubts. Don’t panic you’re not a...
Read More »Panel Event: Islamophobia: Challenges and Opportunities
Innovate Walsall, cordially invites Scholars and Students to a panel event entitled "Islamophobia: Challenges & Opportunities" with keynote speaker, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, alongside Professor Francis Davis and...
Read More »British Teachers at Union Conference Support Palestine and Oppose Islamophobia
Anti-racism was a big theme of NUT teachers’ union conference this week. It took place as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is under intense attack from right wingers over antisemitism...
Read More »UN: Rohingya Muslims Have Been Killed, Tortured, Raped, Burned Alive
The UN Secretary General's Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide says international crimes were committed in Myanmar...Rohingya Muslims have been killed, tortured, raped, burned alive and humiliated solely because of who they are...
Read More »Muslim Council of Britain to Start New Counter-Terror Initiative
Britain’s Muslims will start a new counter-terrorism initiative under the country’s biggest Muslim umbrella organization, according to a conference in North London on...
Read More »Christian Librarian Dons Hijab to Support Muslims
Nancy Allen, a librarian, published author, and a member of a church choir from Conway, US state of Arkansas, has been wearing hijab for almost two years to support Muslim women and counter hateful rhetoric targeting the religious...
Read More »Law and British Muslims: Domination of the Majority or Process of Balance?
This volume broaches the subject of neutrality and the law with the specific experience and expectations of Muslims in the UK. Having discussed the various theoretical critiques of law as objective and universal, it proceeds to draw on Muslim voices from across the UK in order to propose the grounds …
Read More »Book: American Exceptionalism, Eurocentrism and Otherisation of Muslim
Professor Saied Reza Ameli’s scholarly book on “American Exceptionalism, Eurocentrism and Otherisation of Muslim” is an important examination of contemporary debates related to questions of Western oppression and liberation movements...
Read More »A Muslim & a Christian Take a Muslim Roadshow to Fight Islamophobia
They’re not the sort of couple one is likely to encounter in many parts of the country: a hijab-wearing Muslim woman with a Harvard law degree and a white Lutheran pastor...
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