This short piece is based on a thread on X posted on 11 Jul7 2024 on Srebrenica and the genocide in Bosnia. Today marks the 29th anniversary of the genocide in #Srebrenica. Islamic Human Rights Commission has released a recording by Nargess Moballeghi of her essay for #TheLongView ‘Bosnia: the forgotten
What, if anything, can be a revolutionary politics for minoritised people, especially Muslims in the UK? What can we actually do to fight for the end of the genocide? – asks Arzu Merali. Read the article below the audio. Listen to the audio on this page or on Youtube. Part III:
There is no point trying to do politics and work in the political system, even if it is to try and stop genocide, if we do not understand how it operates, argues Arzu Merali Listen to the audio or read the article below. II: Understanding the System The first part of this
It is time to stop blindly replicating previously failed attempts to leverage the Muslim vote in the UK, argues Arzu Merali. Listen to the audio or read the article below. I: Learning from the Past “…nations have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, only permanent interests.”
Reports that the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer intends to appoint Baroness Louise Casey as a minister if he is elected, show his intentions to govern without difference in style or substance. Apparently Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is considering appointing the cross bench peer Dame Louise Casey of Blackstock as a
The leading liberal author Naomi Klein has publicly called for an exodus of Jews from Zionism. This is momentous, particularly to those who remember her pro-Zionist interventions of yesteryear. Arzu discusses why, notwithstanding this welcome news, the movement for a better world needs to still hold those who upheld the old world
In this second piece about the Michaela School judgment in the UK in April, Arzu looks at the context it was made in. She looks at how Islamophobic narratives employed by the UK government and parts of the media have also undermined the wider education sector affecting the majority of school children,
This is the first of two pieces by Arzu, on the Michaela School judgment and its context. Almost two weeks ago a pupil lost her high court case in the UK, against the school banning her and other students from praying on site (she and others had been praying in the playground
The Times has reported a dossier of comments on social media and in lectures by Sheikh Jaffer Ladak, the resident alim at Baab ul-Ilm Centre in Leeds has been passed to West Yorkshire Police. Ladak’s comments cited by The Times, are not unusual or in the current moment even controversial. This piece