Who am I? Mona Al Ghussein August 2019 Who am I? I am a Palestinian Muslim born in Kuwait, raised in France and England and consider Britain my home. There is some irony in that of course as it was the British in the infamous Balfour declaration that voided half of my ancestral home in…
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Younger Syrians see themselves more as ‘survivors’ rather than ‘victims’ Mustapha Karkouti, my close friend, was a Syrian-born British journalist, who died of a heart attack last July. We would often have coffee and talk politics. Today, we would have ruminated about the Syrian spring which led to an unending, grave winter. Ten years ago,…
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‘My husband would gaslight me every day,’ 48-year-old Fatima tells Metro.co.uk. ‘He denied that I had put sugar in his tea – he would do it each time I made it. ‘He taunted that I was losing my memory as I was getting old. ‘He also hid my keys. I would look for them and…
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For the author Tawseef Khan and our own writer Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, challenging Islamophobia is sadly a fact of life – but it’s vital that problems aren’t ignored within their religion You are a 14-year-old Muslim boy from Manchester, hormonal, straining at the leash, on the cusp of young adulthood. In your home, you – being…
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Albert Persaud’s article on “Why we need the Office for Minority Health?” In Albert’s words the report is coherent on the evidence and actions needed at all levels and that they see the Office for Minority Health as a strategic vehicle – legislative, policy, Govt accountability, to deliver the better mental health outcomes. The paper…
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A lifetime spent fighting discrimination makes you resilient, determined and smart Spineless, splenetic, spiteful, racist scoundrels have been at it again. Well, they never seem to stop recently. Last weekend on social media, some of them assailed and seriously threatened star footballers: Marcus Rashford, Reece James, Romaine Sawyers, Axel Tuanzebe and Anthony Martial. The perpetrators are…
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Most of the reluctant are not brash anti-vaxxers, but are hesitant because they feel unsafe and mistrustful This much we know: people of black and South Asian ethnic background have a greater risk of death from Covid-19 than white people. According to Ben Humberstone, the deputy director of the health and life events division at the…
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Saeida Rouass’s paper on the intersection of misogyny and violent extremism (specifically in relation to white supremacy) was published by Hidayah. It is based on interviews with women who were once members of white supremacy groups in the USA and then left. The paper can be found here.
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Britain’s young Muslims feel stereotyped by society and controlled by their communities — this can’t go on For the past eighteen months, I have been speaking to young British Muslims about their deepest fears and secrets Two separate, new surveys make grim reading for British Muslims. The Labour Muslim Network (LMN), has discovered that a third of…
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We Muslims in the West must stand with Emmanuel Macron — Islam and secularism aren’t mutually exclusive I am both a Muslim and a secularist. Does that sound implausible? It really isn’t First they beheaded a teacher, a decent man who cared for his multiracial pupils. Then they slaughtered a church warden and worshippers in the Notre-Dame…
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