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A Summary of Several Unsurprising Reports on Islamophobia in the UK and US


Posted by sarabi on 20 Sep 2017 / 0 Comments
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Recently, The Independent reported on a study finding that discrimination in the job market adversely affects employment prospects for young Muslims. The Independent reports on the study as if the information is new, but three years ago Roger Dobson wrote an article on a study with similar findings for the same periodical. The gist of […]

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Books/Magazines

Diversity & Books: Reading, Publishing, and Telling More Stories


Posted by Shereen Malherbe on 08 Mar 2016 / 5 Comments
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At the start of 2016, The Guardian reported a ‘survey of workforce at 34 book publishers and eight review journals in [the] US reveals 79% of staff are white’. It isn’t a surprise that bookstores around the UK tend to reflect this lack of diversity, with few non-dominant narratives or books by people of colour, […]

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Britain and the Veil: From Jack Straw to Jeremy Browne


Posted by tasnim on 28 Jan 2014 / 2 Comments
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The debate about whether or not “we” should have a debate about banning “veils” has returned – or maybe it would be more accurate to say that the volume has been raised, since this is a debate that seems to have been running in the background for most of the last decade. The amount of […]

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Culture/Society

The H Word: A Piece of Cloth Loaded with More Than It Can Bear?


Posted by yasmeen on 12 Sep 2013 / 2 Comments
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I have to admit that hijab narratives in media turn me off. Whether because it is exhaustively discussed or because most of these narratives rely heavily on clichés and fallacies, hijab is a subject that seems to me overloaded with notions that are not related in any way to what I see as the core […]

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Muslim Women, Not-So-Muslim Men: Interfaith Marriage in the UK


Posted by sana on 14 Jan 2013 / 13 Comments
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Since apparently all of us over the ripe age of 20 walk around with visible and obnoxiously loud ticking analog biological clocks, it’s no surprise that the issue of marriage is constantly smacked into our faces as though it is the sole defining moment and relationship of our lives. Marriage for Muslim women, whatever shade […]

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Reading Between the Lines: Two Takes on British Women’s Unemployment


Posted by azra on 02 Jan 2013 / 0 Comments
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Earlier in December, the Guardian reported on a recent UK-based report—the “All Party Parliamentary Group on Race and Community Ethnic Minority Female Unemployment: Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi Heritage Women”—that found “minority ethnic women are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as their white counterparts, with some removing their hijabs or making their names […]

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“Lost” Girls Are Not Sex Objects – Whatever Their Race: Part II


Posted by merium on 12 Jun 2012 / 0 Comments
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In light of several interesting comments to my previous post on the Rochdale “grooming” case, I decided a follow-up piece was in order. Much of the furore surrounding the case has been with respect to race and its alleged role in the attack, specifically: does the “Asian” (Pakistani and thereby Muslim) origin of the attackers […]

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“Lost” Girls Are Not Sex Objects – Whatever Their Race


Posted by merium on 30 May 2012 / 0 Comments
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A group of nine men of Pakistani and Afghan origin were sentenced to jail recently for using alcohol and drugs to “groom” white British girls for sex.  The abuse took place in the town of Rochdale, near Manchester in northwest England.  The men, aged 24 to 38, were employed as taxi drivers, and included a […]

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Don’t Ask Why: the BNP on Question Time


Posted by ayaan on 29 Oct 2009 / 0 Comments
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Following the election of two British National Party (BNP) MEPs in the 2009 European elections this summer, a representative of the BNP was invited onto one of the BBC’s flagship political debate television programmes on this Thursday (22nd October).

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Life Lost: the Tragic Case of Sahar Daftary


Posted by sobia on 30 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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On December 20th, 23-year-old model Sahar Daftary died as a result of a fall from the 12th story of an apartment building in Greater Manchester (inna lillahi wa inna illaihi raji’un). May Allah have mercy on her soul. The death of this former Face of Asia has spurred many speculations in British media as to […]

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