Arzu Merali was on of the signatories of this statement highlighting concerns and dangers regarding the statutory implementation of the Prevent strategy. The original can be read here. We, the undersigned, take issue with the government’s PREVENT strategy and its statutory implementation through the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 for the following reasons: 1.
Arzu Merali argues Muslims in the UK need a wake-up call and recognise the messages of hate surrounding them. I was totally depressed by David Cameron’s speech on Monday, and so turned to some light entertainment to cheer me up. It is then that I realised, whilst wallowing in my cultural certitudes,
I spoke on this panel convened in the immediate aftermath of the attacks in Paris in January 2015. Full details (and the full playlist of this panel) follow under the video of my talk. From the IHRC Website The Islamic Human Rights Commission held a last minute public meeting, ‘What
This video is from the December 2014 Institutional Islamophobia Conference, the first of IHRC’s annual Islamophobia conferences. Arzu Merali spoke of IHRC’s 17-year-long project of documenting anti-Muslim experiences and hate crime. IHRC has never thought that victims should have to prove their oppressive experiences but IHRC has to advocate and prove to
This panel on Islamophobia was organised by IHRC at the United Nations Human Rights Council session in September 2014 in Geneva As anti-Muslim hatred rises in Europe and North America as well as other satellite states, this panel presents compelling theoretical and empirical work on the phenomenon. The crisis unfolding as a
The event took a critical view of the humanitarian rhetoric around the intervention in Libya. Dr. Kamila Otman and Roshan Mohammed Salih overviewed the outcome of the NATO intervention in Libya in 2011 that brought down Muammar Ghadaffi. This is uncomfortable viewing at times as it provides a strong critique of humanitarian
Central to this discussion was the presentation of the idea of the Cartographies of Power, 15 hierarchies of which Professor Grosfoguel articulated to those in attendance and those watching on-line. He argued that race was the organising principle through which these hierarchies operated to colonise and continue to control peoples around the
Presented at the CES ALICE Colloqium Panel 1:4 in Coimbra in 2014. She discusses what it means to human, who controls the meaning, and how using different traditions – specifically the Islamic tradition – can show us how to move beyond the polarisation Westernised societies are facing today. From CES: Arzu
Letters to the editor, from Sir Tim Brighouse et al. about the Trojan Horse/ hoax affair. Arzu Merali was one of the signatories. Read the letter here on The Guardian pages, or below. Several major Ofsted reports are due to be published about the so-called “Trojan Horse” schools in Birmingham which
As the political narrative in the UK drives home further the idea of Muslim deviance, the speaker will try to address Muslim internalisation of racism and Islamophobia. She asks, “What lessons can we derive from Karbala about our lives in the UK today?” Watch Full Video below Related: Read Ashura and