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VIDEO: Islamophobia Conference 2016 – Scotland

I spoke at the SACC and IHRC conference in Edinburgh in 2016 about how education, the legal system and the Prevent / Counter-terrorism regime coalesce to create an environment of hate that facilitates the operation of a de facto Police State. In this state citizens are either living in fear and self-censorship,

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VIDEO: Q&A with Sukant Chandan – Insight to Riot

Director Sukant Chandan joined IHRC on the 25th August 2016 to discuss his newest documentary ‘Insight to riot’. Insight to Riot is a documentary film that captures the inspiring but also at times very sad and traumatic stories of Black and poor people reacting and responding and navigating a growing racist, oppressive

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VIDEO: Prevent as the Socialisation of Hate

Presented by Arzu Merali at the final plenary of the Prevent, Islamophobia and Civil Liberties national conference in June 2016.  In it Arzu looks at how the narratives that fuel Islamophobic street level violence and establishment attacks on Muslims are concretised by the narratives of Prevent.  She argues that the capture of

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VIDEO: Islamophobia – The Changing Face of Racism

This was presented at the second institutional Islamophobia conference held in London and Edinburgh by IHRC and SACC in December 2015. The 2015 London Islamophobia Conference was entitled Islamophobia: The Changing Face of Racism. IHRC and Scotland against Criminalising Communities (SACC) co-organised a London and an Edinburgh event this year. This year the

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Joint statement on the government’s implementation of PREVENT

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.

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VIDEO: Institutional Islamophobia Conference 2014

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

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