Ethnic Minorities in the UK have all gone through some ordeal of discrimination and re-development of their identities. A couple of decades ago it was the Irish, before that the Arabs, more recently the Afro-Carribeans and currently the Muslims. It would be ridiculous to claim that the experiences of each of the communities are [...]
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Designing Islam
Posted in sociology on August 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Colonizing Islam: the Black-White Divide
Posted in sociology on March 4, 2007 | 12 Comments »
It was one thing watching part of the Muslim community being slaughtered, the Qur’an being misquoted, and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (ص) demonised on the Dispatches program that came on over a month ago; but it was painful when I saw Muslims on T.V., that is, educated Muslims, taking opportunity to blame the [...]