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Islamophobia

Polarisation, repression and resistance in Modi’s India

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

The World Trade Organisation has stated that the Covid-19 pandemic could provoke the deepest economic downturn of our lifetime.1 As with any deep crisis, the effects will weigh heaviest on the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly in the Global South.… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, India, Islamophobia, populism, the far right

How not to resist racism: a lesson from France

Posted on 18th October 2018 by Camilla

A review of Jim Wolfreys, Republic of Islamophobia: The Rise of Respectable Racism in France (Hurst, 2018), £14.99 This April, French president Emmanuel Macron urged Catholic bishops to “engage once again” with the “political scene” and “repair” the relationship between… Continue Reading →

Book reviews France, Islamophobia, Racism

Antisemitism and the far-right today

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

Within weeks of Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, news and media channels were dominated by charges of antisemitism levelled against his supporters, the National Union of Students and others for their opposition to the State of Israel. The furore… Continue Reading →

Article antisemitism, Fascism, Islamophobia, Racism, the far right

What are we to do with Islam? The case of Turkey

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

The question of the relationship between socialists on the one hand and Muslims and Islamic organisations on the other is of burning relevance both in the West and, even more so, in the countries of the Middle East. In Western… Continue Reading →

Article Islamism, Islamophobia, Turkey

Atheism, secularism and religious freedom: Debates within the German left

Posted on 4th April 2016 by Camilla

Debates in Germany in recent years around the wearing of the hijab, Islamic religious instruction in schools, circumcision and claims of a “Salafist” threat continue to demonstrate the importance for Marxists to be clear on the question of religious freedom.1… Continue Reading →

Article Islamophobia, Religion

Understanding Islamophobia

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

Arun Kundnani, The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror (Verso, 2015), £9.99 Arun Kundnani’s book about Islamophobia deliberately references the 1966 Hollywood movie, The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! With its repetitive title… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Islamophobia

Islamophobia: the othering of Europe’s Muslims

Posted on 11th April 2015 by ISJ

Islamophobia has become the predominant form of racism in Europe today. It is proving to be potent and multifaceted, manifesting itself at state, popular and party political level. It represents a profoundly divisive force, not least because the “Muslim question”… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Islamophobia

After the Paris attacks: An Islamophobic spiral

Posted on 11th April 2015 by ISJ

“There will be a before and an after,” French prime minister Manuel Valls declared in the wake of the appalling murders that took place in Paris in early 2015, the slaughter of a dozen people at the Charlie Hebdo offices… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised France, Islamophobia

More than the mosque

Posted on 30th June 2005 by ISJ

A review of Humayun Ansari, The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800 (Hurst & Company, 2004), £16.50 Can history teach us anything about a political approach to Britain’s Muslims, and how we should regard them in terms of race… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Islamophobia
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