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
Some thoughts from Twitter posted on 2nd March 2024 regarding an opinion piece in The Guardian on Michael Gove. This article argued that despite appearance of courteousness and clam, Michael Gove was in fact someone who had ‘toxified’ the political culture of the Tories. The tweet threat is unrolled below, but as
From the landmark employment tribunal victory of Professor David Miller to the Safety of Rwanda Bill, recent events in the realm of UK law are revealing the political and legal discourses of unaccountable power and control. It’s been happening a while, but the transformation of the image of Kenneth (now Lord) Clarke,
As German far-right politicians attend a meeting at the British House of Parliament today, Arzu reflects on the crises of racism gripping Germany Today former Tory now independent MP, Andrew Bridgen hosts members of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party from Germany at the Houses of Parliament. If the appellation ‘far-right’
Arzu looks at The Sunday Times’ TV critic Camilla Long’s most recent attack on hijab, praying at school and the rights of Muslim children in her column Given its proclivity for Brexit (and thus one assumes the proclivity of its readers similarly) it is odd to find appreciative readers of Camilla Long’s
Arzu argues that the normalisation of the TalkTV journalist’s behaviour in a recent interview should be too much even for institutionally racist media companies to stomach. The video of Julia Hartley-Brewer ‘interviewing’ Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghouti last week is doing the rounds. Rightly so. It is a shocking piece of invective,
Notes from 2023: I had the great privilege of interviewing Houria Bouteldja once more, this time abut her book, Whites, Jews and Us: Towards a Politics of Revolutionary Love in March 2018. The interview took place for IHRC, who stock the title in their fundraising bookshop here. I really, really love this
Arzu Merali outlines the urgent need for the Palestine solidarity movement to learn lessons from its fractured past It has been a traumatic and for some surprising week. The UK Home Secretary has labelled the peaceful and almost wholly – thus far – arrest free pro-Palestinian marches in (particularly, but not
Professor Olsi Yazeji, Professor Saeed A. Khan and Massoud Shadjareh join Arzu Merali to discuss the rise south and in particular China, the decline of the west. What are the possibilities and problems Muslim engagement with China, as nations, as disaporas, as minoritised people within its borders and as part of global(ised)
A new volume in the DHMIR series looking at the increasingly narrower conception of citizenship when it comes to Muslims, in Germany.
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