Anti-Asian vs anti-Muslim hatred: The Rafiq case

I’d like to point out that this article desperately simplifies a multifaceted issue with…


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Islamophobia and a working definition: A faith-based perspective

I commend the well-intentioned support of the APPG, and the Muslims who have sincerely wanted to…


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Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim racism and Muslimness

There is a fundamental question to begin with: what and who does a definition that centres around…


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The problem with the term Islamophobia

In this post I begin with the term ‘Islamophobia’ which poses significant problems, both political…


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Building back up

For decades (if not a couple of centuries) many Muslim writers, scholars and thinkers have sought…


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The Taliban and this time around

Given that I advocate a) that believers ought to concentrate on rectifying their own regional…


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Muslims and racist portrayals

(In comment to: 'Deporting ‘foreign criminals’ in the middle of the night doesn’t make us safer')……


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#MuslimFails

In thinking about #MuslimFails, something I find to be super consistent on a communal level – of…


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“Go back to Pakistan” and the MCB’s response

Very recently, Conservative activist Theodora Dickinson tweeted that if Labour shadow minister…


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Race, Ethnicity and Community: Where do we go?

It’s simplistic to argue that religious spaces need to be inclusive when we factor in that these…


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Racialisation, Muslim spaces, and ethnocultural communities

In order to meaningfully discuss the ‘black experience’ in British Muslim spaces, there are a few…


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CVD19 and the future

There are some important things for us to consider: 1. Coronavirus is here and we have to face…


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