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Debate on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party pulls in British Muslims
The debate around anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is continuing unabated, with many of the nine MPs who have recently left the Labour party to form the Independent Party stating that how anti-Semitism is being dealt with by the leadership has contributed to their decision to leave. A large part of the criticism surrounds Labour…
Muslim figures within Conservative Party are fighting Islamophobia within with little support
Fourteen members of the Conservative Party have been suspended after making comments on a Facebook group that included “turf all Muslims out of public office”, “send [Muslims] home” and that Muslims are “here to destroy us”. Another controversy related to Islamophobia came up this week when Peter Lamb, a Conservative candidate who was due to…
The refusal to allow return of Islamic State runaways Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana enters into contrasting legal debates in the U.S. and the UK.
Comparisons are inevitably being made between Shamima Begum, the British 19 year old who fled Britain when she was 15 to join the Islamic State (IS), and Hoda Muthana, a 24-year-old who travelled to IS three months before Begum, from her home in Alabama, United States. Like Begum, Muthana is also requesting to return to…
ISIS runaway Shamima Begum’s request to return to the UK provokes national uproar
Fierce national debate has erupted this past week in the United Kingdom on the case of Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old woman who ran away from her home in East London in February 2015 to join the Islamic State, and is now requesting to return to the UK. The controversy reached new heights this Tuesday,…
Center for Global Policy report suggests integration experience of European Muslims provides lessons for American Muslims
A new ‘special report’ by the Center for Global Policy [CGP] has been released, titled ‘Muslims in Western Europe and the United States’. CGP describes itself as the “first independent, non-partisan American think tank working exclusively on issues at the intersection of U.S. foreign policy and the geopolitics of Muslim-majority countries”. The report examines issues…