Khadija Khan, Author at Areo

Outlawing Islamophobia: A Terrible Idea

In July 2023, two senior Labour councillors in Walsall were reported to police, accused of hate crimes against Ahmadiyya Muslims—a minority group within the religion. Local party leader Aftab Nawaz and…

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Hindu-Muslim Tensions in the UK

The violence that unfolded in Leicester in the late summer of 2022 was undoubtedly tragic, especially for the local South Asian communities who have shared the city for decades.

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Romanticising Shamima Begum

We Brits have entered the New Year faced by a barrage of unsolved problems from the past. Among them is the case of ISIS bride Shamima Begum, who left Britain…

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Rainbows and Hypocrisies: LGBT Activism in Football

In recent years, international sport has become immensely commercialized and professionalized. But these trends have undergone rapid change with the intervention of woke activism. People from all walks of life…

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The Courageous Women of Iran

Twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini was recently allegedly dragged through the streets and thrown into a police van by Iran’s Guardian Patrols, often known as the morality police, on the…

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The Continuing Plight of Women under the Taliban

A decree to ban women from employment, bar them from entering educational institutions, incarcerate them in their homes—and impose the burqa on those who venture beyond their walls: this horrifying,…

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World Hijab Day: Nothing to Celebrate

Here’s an irony: World Hijab Day—an initiative begun in the US in 2013 to promote cross-cultural solidarity by encouraging woman of all backgrounds to wear a hijab for a day—is…

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Double Standards for Nadia Murad and Shamima Begum

Nadia Murad, who won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, was only 19 in 2014, when Islamic State (ISIS) militants invaded her Yazidi village, Kocho, in northern Iraq. They killed all the…

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Hijab is Not a Symbol of Freedom

The Council of Europe’s Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination Division recently tweeted out posters containing images of women whose faces were partially veiled by a hijab. The tweets were presumably meant to…

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Why Islamophobia Is a Weasel Word

The term Islamophobia was coined to describe anti-Muslim bigotry in the 1997 Runnymede report. The objective of introducing such a term might seem obvious enough. Nonetheless, its ambiguity has made…

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Double Standards in Our Attitudes to Violence Against Women

Gender-based violence against women is a social menace that threatens all women in the UK, regardless of their backgrounds.

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The Women of Afghanistan

The fall of Kabul into the hands of Islamist insurgents will be long remembered as a horrifying tragedy for Afghan women. Perhaps even more terrifying is the way in which…

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Muslims Against Gay Rights: The Battle for Batley and Spen

From the overt intimidation of schoolteachers to the heckling and egg-pelting of politicians, the recent chaotic by-election campaign in the UK parliamentary constituency of Batley and Spen has laid bare…

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Child Marriage in the UK

Former Home Secretary Sajid Javid has recently introduced a private member’s bill that would raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales, with no exceptions. The…

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Multiculturalism Cannot Include Respect for Homophobia

Multiculturalism has been described as a melting pot and as the best alternative to assimilationist policies, which have been perceived as fraught, due to the fear that people from cultural…

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Rahaf Mohammad and the Need for Universal Human Rights

Rahaf Mohammed’s epic escape and rescue have once again demonstrated the pressing need for humanity to join together to protect human rights irrespective of caste, color or creed. The incident…

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Islamic Feminism is a Myth

The ousting of Moroccan scholar Asma Lamrabet lays bare the falsity of claims by mostly Western conservative Muslims that Islam is the most feminist religion once again.

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Khadija Khan

Outlawing Islamophobia: A Terrible Idea

Hindu-Muslim Tensions in the UK

Romanticising Shamima Begum

Rainbows and Hypocrisies: LGBT Activism in Football

The Courageous Women of Iran

The Continuing Plight of Women under the Taliban

World Hijab Day: Nothing to Celebrate

Double Standards for Nadia Murad and Shamima Begum

Hijab is Not a Symbol of Freedom

Why Islamophobia Is a Weasel Word

Double Standards in Our Attitudes to Violence Against Women

The Women of Afghanistan

Muslims Against Gay Rights: The Battle for Batley and Spen

Child Marriage in the UK

Multiculturalism Cannot Include Respect for Homophobia

Rahaf Mohammad and the Need for Universal Human Rights

Islamic Feminism is a Myth

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