State Racism

What caused the race riots in the UK?

Arzu appeared on TRT’s Roundtable to discuss the causes of the race riots in the UK in the past few weeks. Riots by far-right groups in the UK have left many Muslims feeling scared and isolated in the country they call home. What do these actions say about the state of race

Read More »

On Michael Gove

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

Read More »

VIDEO: Challenging the Police State

The panel on tackling the police state from the 2018 Bandung of the North conference with Fred Hampton Jr., Arzu Merali, Amal Bentousi, Safa Chebbi, Andre-Yanne Parent, Nordine Saidi, Ibrahim Bechrouri, Redouane Ikil and Said Bouamama.   This panel (mainly in French) includes a presentation from IHRC’s Arzu Merali (in English).  

Read More »

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

Read More »

VIDEO: Launch of British Muslim Expectations of the Government

Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the British Muslims’ Expectations of the Government (BMEG) project saw IHRC deliver sophisticated research based on quantitative and qualitative research on the expectations that Muslims in the UK had of the government. The six reports published looked at: citizenship, discrimination, education and schools, hijab, law

Read More »