Today is the first day of Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM). IAM is more than highlighting levels of anti-Muslim hate crime (an important task in itself). It is also an opportunity to deconstruct and challenge stereotypes surrounding Islam and Muslims by highlighting the positive...
With various political parties facing accusations of racial and religious impropriety, and of being detached from the lived experiences of the UK’s minority communities, the importance of a diverse party membership cannot be stressed enough. It is important that the UK’s religious and...
The Government’s recent proposals to introduce ID requirements at polling stations, has led to fears that the scheme will lead to voter suppression and disproportionately disenfranchise already marginalised minority groups. Under the “electoral integrity” bill proposals, as stated in...
As the potential of a general election becomes exponentially more viable with every passing day, possible candidates are mobilising their teams, testing their PR strategies, and raising their public image an effort to seem ‘vote-able’. Inevitably, this occasionally includes unsavoury political...
As the UK prepares to leave the European Union (EU), a lot of attention has been directed towards the impact of Brexit on such issues as the Irish backstop, as but one example of the impossibly complicated obstacles that must be navigated in negotiations. However, despite perhaps not receiving a...
This year’s Black History Month theme is the invaluable contributions made by inspiring women of the Windrush generation. In light of the Government mistreatment that was exposed in the Windrush scandal, it is important to recognise the integral role of the Windrush generation and Black...
Over recent years, it would have been difficult for many readers to be unaware of several apparent “scandals” centring on British Muslim communities that have been seemingly exposed by the award-winning journalist, Mr Andrew Norfolk. Over a period of 15 months, Norfolk had published three...
Earlier this month witnessed a devastating far-right terror attack against a synagogue in Halle, Germany, in which at least two people were killed. This attack is eerily similar to the terrorist attack against mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019. Indeed, prosecutors have argued...
Amidst existing criticisms of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy as innately discriminatory and counterproductive, the latest revelation of a secret PREVENT database serves to compound such concerns. The counter-terror police have been compiling a database of thousands of PREVENT...
The Government appointed counter-extremism commissioner, Sara Khan, released her much anticipated report titled ‘Challenging Hateful Extremism‘ on Monday the 7th of October. The report, which called for an overhaul of the Government’s counter-extremism strategy primarily focused...
