Today marks the public launch of our new global think tank on Muslim affairs, with the express intention of trying to work towards creating a better Muslim world. A world that is free from conflict, division, hatred, and suffering. The Ayaan vision is to see a Muslim world that is united, independent, prosperous, and strong;...
Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad in a recent publication of some his personal reflections, challenges Muslim communities to reflect on the changed conditions in which they live in the UK; and find a way of adjusting or coming to terms with them. Much of his reflections appear to be personal opinions (some have argued stereotypes). Nevertheless,...
President Macron said that Islam was in crisis around the world and in need of liberation. Islam as a religion is not in need of liberation, but it is true that the politics of the Muslim world is in crisis and certainly needs liberating. But if only he, and European establishments, could remove the colonial...
Violence played a key role in the build-up to and aftermath of the French Revolution (May 1789). Those who supported the overthrow of the monarchy and its state resorted to “popular violence” to overthrow the existing system, and also to defend themselves from the ruling system’s oppressive response to demands for political change; as well...
There is no Muslim Brotherhood or Muslim plot to take over Europe or subvert its values. Like the Protocols, it is a conspiracy theory. Anti-Islamic and Muslim hate is deliberately generated political propaganda by states and groups to achieve political goals. It is the deliberate demonisation and dehumanisation of a people, just as it once...
In Europe and the U.S., the demonisation of the Muslim Brotherhood via “plots to take over the world” have already been normalised. Media articles, interviews, think tank publications, politicians, and even terrorism/extremism experts sing from the same hymn sheet. Syed Qutb has replaced Karl Marx as the ideologue behind the movement to take over the...
In 2011, mass movements of desperate ordinary people, trying to survive and calling for some basic needs and dignity, emerged in the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood, whilst not the instigators of the uprisings, benefited and emerged as the only group capable of organising an alternative to the status quo. The elders of the Brotherhood...
After 9/11, Western ideologues with the help of so-called experts and propagandists fine-tuned the global threat of Islam, using terms like “Islamist,” “terrorist,” and “extremist” which replaced “Islamic fundamentalism.” Legions of articles, books and media stories with “experts” propagated the threat of global terror and “Islamism.” Takeover terminology, highlighting the threat to European societies and...
After the collapse of Communism, a contemporary conspiracy theory began to take shape during the Reagan years in the U.S – the “Green Threat of Islam” (or Islamic fundamentalism) replaced the “Red Threat” of Communism. It helped that the U.S.’s favourite ruler in the Muslim world, the Shah of Iran, was toppled by religious Ayatollahs....
