This edition follows the recent events of racist mobilisations against Muslims, migrants and asylum seekers in the U.K. and the role of global Islamophobic networks in the attacks and rising violence.
Whose Home and Whose Right?
The Battle for the Politics of the Future.
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Faisal Bodi dissects the events with a long background into how we have ended up in the current situation. Drawing on battles between antiracists and both the state and street level thuggery over the decades, Bodi outlines the developing environment of hate that has led to the recent riots.
Sukant Chandan, in our second essay, argues that this incident has not been recognised by other marginalised groups and the wider white working-class as it should have been: a case which requires support and solidarity from other oppressed groups.
The erasure of Muslims from civil society and political spaces in the theme of this year’s IHRC and SACC Islamophobia conference. Saeed A. Khan’s essay covers the talking points for the event. With every passing year, and in acceleration since October 2023, Westernised spaces but also countries such as India have introduced laws and policies that shrink political spaces and target Muslims.
Our last essay is based on one of Imam Muhammad Al-Asi’s presentation at the Decolonial Summer School, held in Granada in June 2024. In it, he propounds the idea that from a Qur’anic perspective Makkah has been decreed a home for the homeless.
