Events in the United States and Canada concerning Hindutva and BJP activity, highlight that domestic counter-terrorism agencies need to be concerned about the risks of the spread of this ideology and its impact on community cohesion. This assessment from New Zealand shows that the authorities there are taking the potential threat seriously and monitoring it. The...
The last twelve months have highlighted to a global audience that the Palestinian people are engaged in a physical struggle for the liberation of their lands and lives from military occupation by the self-proclaimed Jewish State of Israel. They are facing an existential threat to their lives and loss of homeland. However, there is another area...
In 2022 disorder broke out between Hindu and Muslim youths in Leicester that disturbed the widely held perception of good community relations in the city. Four years later attempts at investigations by the Council and the Government to establish what happened have not yet been published. Pressure from Hindutva lobbies has hampered the investigations to...
Savitri Devi The European Nazi Mother of Hindu Nationalism. Jahangir Mohammed of the Ayaan Institute traces the links between European fascism and Hindutva nationalism and argues that those whose ideas are rooted in constructing a society based on racial hierarchy and racial supremacy will always feel threatened by Islam and Muslims whose beliefs and values...
Areeba Sherwani argues that the loss of Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh will be a major blow to India’s geo-strategic rivalry with China. The political landscape of Bangladesh has been dramatically reshaped by recent events, culminating in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the military takeover. Sheikh Hasina, daughter of Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh...
Areeba Sherwani a Research Associate at the Ayaan Institute highlights the everyday lived reality for Muslims in India; where lynchings to death, cow vigilantism, and bulldozing of homes are the norm. Fear and Faith: Cow Vigilantism and Muslim Lynchings in India On the eve of Eid-ul-Adha, the people of Aligarh woke up to see a...
Areeba Sherwani, a Research Associate at the Ayaan Institute argues that India’s election result is only a setback to the BJP project for India, not a defeat. After a decade of absolute domination, the authoritarian Modi government has fallen short of a majority in the Lok Sabha election. For the last 10 years a single...
Jahangir Mohammed offers reasons why Muslims and non-Muslims needed an independent and alternative party movement at this UK general election. General Elections: Independents And Alternative Party Movement – Is it Needed? The Ayaan Institute’s vision for Muslim minorities in the UK is that of an independently organised community, generating political power outside of mainstream political...
Jahangir Mohammed argues that Indian secularism and democracy have turned its Muslim minority into a persecuted underclass living in abject poverty. India’s 200 million Muslims are its Hidden Underclass. In 2023, India became the fifth leading economy in the world, overtaking Britain and France. It is a country with a huge population of 1.4 billion...
Jahangir Mohammed argues that India’s election results will mark the demise of its secular democracy and the Congress Party and a further move toward a Hindu Supremacist State. India’s Elections: The End of Secular Democracy and Rise of Hindu Supremacy. India is amid its most historic moment since independence from Britain. The largest democracy in...
