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,
Arzu Merali of IHRC reflects on the recent memorialisation of Srebrenica and the loss of its historical context. People born in the late ‘80s onwards, of course, do not remember. Who expects them to? Yet, it wouldn’t be unreasonable that the message of this disaster, rather catastrophe, of ginormous proportions, would be
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
Arzu was interviewed on Levant TV about the IHRC decision to cease participation in UK government consultations on anti-terror measures
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
Arzu discusses her research and book on Canadian experiences of Islamophobia with former UK MP Derek Conway. Salman Sayyid also contributes to the discussion. Buy the book Only Canadian: The Experience of Hate Moderated Differential Citizenship for Muslims here[external link]. Find our more here.
Arzu took part in this event inJune 2014, organised by the Malcolm X Movement (MXM) on opposing the continuing US and Western Empire(s). The text and video below is courtesy of the MXM YouTube Channel. In this clip Sukant Chandan (Malcolm X Movement), Arzu Merali (IHRC and MXM), Carlos Martinez (Invent
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
Only Canadian: The Experience of Hate Moderated Differential Citizenship for Muslims provides an assessment and analysis of the hatred and hostility towards Canadian Muslims. Publication Date: 5 June 2014 £10 or CA$17 (hard copy) £4 or CA$7 (download) / ISBN: 978-1-909853-00-3 (download) ISBN: 978-1-903718-99-5 (hard copy) / 233mm x 156mm / 216
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