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Category Archives: Identity Politics
Our selective moral outrage is shameful
This is a guest-post by Ibn Khaldun
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Muslims living in Britain and around the world are often outraged when Muslims are killed or Muslim holy sites attacked. This is a normal and often admirable reaction. However, I am increasingly frustrated that this moral outrage is often highly selective and is only ignited when it is non-Muslims [...]
Also posted in Antisemitism, Human Rights, Moral relativism, Your View 4 Comments
What Muslim Women Want
This is a guest post by Lucy James, a research fellow at Quilliam
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South Asian Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged group in terms of religion, ethnicity and gender in the UK today. A recent poll of unemployed South Asian Muslim women showed that not only are they disadvantaged, but that they are misunderstood and [...]
What are you?
This is a guest post by Raziq
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“You are not British, Pakistani, Indian, Bengali, Arab or African. These are colonial identities, you are only a Muslim and that’s what god wants you to be” (Member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir)
After the Second World War issues of national identity began to change. The introduction of foreign cheap labour (from former [...]
The “Arab Street” is One-Way
Rafia Zakaria makes a profoundly necessary point about Obama’s “muslim speech” in Cairo. Not the content of it – that’s been done to death – but how muslim reactions to it throws particular Arab perceptions of Southasian issues into stark relief. In particular, this is a comment on how Arab muslims interpreted the parts of [...]
Posted in Identity Politics 12 Comments
Why not to use the “Muslim World” term
In the much-vaunted delivery to Muslim delegates in Cairo last week, President Obama’s speechwriters scored a small but significant point. They did this by making the conscious decision to have Obama avoid using the term “Muslim world”, wisely replaced instead by other terms like “Muslim majority countries” or “Muslim communities”.
To me this is just good [...]
Europe’s faith hinges on its secularism
The question: Is Europe’s future Christian?
[My piece was originally posted in Guardian's Comment is Free: Belief]
The influx of people from a variety of cultures to Europe has seen Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and others practicing their faith as they see fit. Coupled with these relatively new religious practices there is an increasing sense of a [...]
Also posted in Freedom of Expression, Secularism Tagged Christianity, Europe, Religion Leave a comment
Obama: A new beginning
Obama has completed the third and final leg of his "Islamic World" 'Odyssey'. In his speech from Turkey he stated that America was not at war with Islam.
Also posted in Democracy, Human Rights, International Affairs, Islamism, Politics Tagged International politics, Islam, Obama, US 1 Comment
The Hijab Debate