Holocaust Memorial Day – Revisiting the Missing Pages, By Remona Aly “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another,” so said Jonathan Swift, the Anglo-Irish satirist. And he was on point. Amid global and local tensions that threaten to drive us apart, I’m wary of the disillusionment – and confusion – surrounding religion and politics. Geopolitics has cast a grim
One anonymous British school teacher provides some insight on the responses among his student to proposed changes to Exams timetabled to accommodate Ramadan, in order to assist fasting pupils Testing Times: Fear and Fasting in Secondary Schools. by Sami Piperdi (pseudonym) As a Secondary school teacher who works in an establishment with approximately 50% Muslim students, I was particularly interested in the news story that appeared on the BBC website
Rafik Ayaz writes for Media Diversified – full time Dysxlexic and part time Muslim commentator and founder of #VeggieMuslimForum He tweets @1Rafz Who remembers when Dr Ben Carson was the kinder face of Islamophobia in the Republican race for 2016? Good times. Instead like an annoying spray tan mark on your pristine white towel or the accumulation of hair in your plug-hole; Donald Trump is not going away and is on
Preventing “PREVENT”, why the NUS opposes the government’s counter-terrorism strategy in education Malia Bouattia, NUS UK Black Students’ Officer The National Union of Students (NUS) has come under fire as of late for opposing the government’s PREVENT counter-terror extremism strategy – the main criticism for this stance coming from, unsurprisingly, the government themselves who have called on the NUS to drop this opposition. Firstly and above all, this position has come about
Nohoudh scholar Fatima Begum Rajina responds to Trevor Phillips (OBE)’s opening statement at the SOAS-Nohoudh Muslim Integration Conference- engaging with the discourse 2015. Trevor Phillips was the keynote speaker for the SOAS-Nohoudh Muslim Integration conference on the first day – the full speech can be found here. Interestingly, within the first paragraph of Trevor Phillips’ speech he shares the following: ‘I don’t do this sort of thing very much these
Maria W. Norris is a PhD candidate and a teacher at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her PhD is on the UK counter-terrorism strategy since 9/11 and its relationship with identity. She tweets as @MariaWNorris. Mostaque’s post highlighting the importance of Isil’s ideology is timely and important. As a nihilistic death cult intent on taking the Middle East back to an Islamic ‘year zero’, there is no
Above: Dr Khadijah Elshayyal Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Muslims in Britain) The Alwaleed Centre University of Edinburgh Exclusive: shock poll – ‘1 in 5 Brit Muslims’ sympathy for jihadis’ – screamed the recent front page of The Sun newspaper. It seemed that the tabloid notorious for giving us inflammatory ‘Muslim stories’ in the past[1] had hit a new low. Over the past week, criticism for the headline, the poll, and indeed
Nohoudh Muslim Integration Conference 2015: Engaging with the Discourse Note: below is a summary of proceedings from the 2 day conference on Nov 5-6th 2015 The hashtag for the event was #SOASMIC You can also watch a snippet of proceedings on this video Thursday 5th of November Welcome address and Introduction:Muhammad Abdel Haleem (MAH) (Director, Centre of Islamic, SOAS) and Fahd al-Zumaei (FZ) (Nohoudh Endowment for Development Studies) Myriam Francois welcomes
Emad Mostaque is the CEO of Ananas, an organisation working on using technology to eliminate extremism and build stronger communities. He is also an investment strategist focusing on geopolitics at Ecstrat. He tweets @EMostaque After the spate of recent terror attacks by Daesh, the Arabic acronym for the so-called “Islamic State”, the question of why they carry out these heinous acts and how we can stop them has resurfaced. While there are
Islamic Marriage and Divorce in the British Context: Do Shari`a Councils Reinforce Unacceptable Patriarchy in the Muslim Communities, Or Are They In Fact An Essential Tool In The Liberation of Muslim Women? Amra Bone This paper is based upon presentation given at the 2-day conference; Nohoudh Muslim Integration: Engaging with the Discourse, held at SOAS on the 5th & 6th November 2015 at the University of London. The perspective from
