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The Left’s Silence on Islamic Homophobia

In Muslim communities, homosexuality is intrinsically linked to anxiety, intimidation, violence and, in some cases, death. For many, it involves living a closeted existence for fear of being ostracised or…

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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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4 min

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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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6 min

Iran’s Feminist Revolution

The current uprising in Iran is a revolution led by women. It centres on the enforcement of hijab, but the protests are about much more than the wearing of a…

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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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5 min

Politics

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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5 min

Politics

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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4 min

Politics

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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4 min

Politics

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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14 min

On Islamic Fascism: Reflections on 9/11 Twenty Years On

Where were you on 9/11? Few events are accorded such status in public memory: there is an expectation that, if you are old enough, you will remember to the second…

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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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4 min

Politics

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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7 min

Politics

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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14 min

Crescent Capitalism: Islam and the Birth of the Free Market

Islamists, leftists and conservatives have long debated whether Islam is compatible with western liberal capitalism. Many have framed the history of capitalism as beginning in medieval Genoa and Venice, and…

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Naming the Unnameable: Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and the Defence of Free Speech

We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books;…

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5 min

Politics

Free Speech in France and the Prophet Muhammad

On 16 October 2020, in France, schoolteacher Samuel Paty was murdered for showing his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The vast majority of French political leaders immediately declared their…

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10 min

A Feminist Hero: “Prey” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali probably has the strongest current claim to the title of most unfairly maligned person. Ever since she started speaking out against the dangers posed by Islamism and…

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5 min

The Islamic Community Does Not and Cannot Exist

There are many popular debates on the nature of Islam. Some commentators would try to persuade you—perhaps by reference to one verse or another—that the real Islam is peaceful and…

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Islam

The Left’s Silence on Islamic Homophobia

Outlawing Islamophobia: A Terrible Idea

Romanticising Shamima Begum

Iran’s Feminist Revolution

Rainbows and Hypocrisies: LGBT Activism in Football

The Courageous Women of Iran

World Hijab Day: Nothing to Celebrate

Hijab is Not a Symbol of Freedom

Double Standards in Our Attitudes to Violence Against Women

On Islamic Fascism: Reflections on 9/11 Twenty Years On

The Women of Afghanistan

Muslims Against Gay Rights: The Battle for Batley and Spen

Child Marriage in the UK

Crescent Capitalism: Islam and the Birth of the Free Market

Naming the Unnameable: Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and the Defence of Free Speech

Free Speech in France and the Prophet Muhammad

A Feminist Hero: “Prey” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Islamic Community Does Not and Cannot Exist

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