A report by Brown University analysing the human costs of war (September 2020), claims some 37 million people have become refugees since the start of the “war on Terror”. The displaced people includes 5.3 million Afghans, 9.2 million Iraqis, 3.7 million Pakistanis, 1.7 million Filipinos, 4.2 million Somalis, 4.4 million Yemenis, 1.2 million Libyans, and 7.1...
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,...
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were a notorious antisemitic forgery used by antisemites as propaganda for anti-Jewish genocide. But Jahangir Mohammed, the director of the Ayaan Institute, argues similar conspiratorial theories about the Muslim Brotherhood could lead to an anti-Muslim genocide. History often repeats itself. So too does racism, bigotry, and hatred. At the...
Historians will look back to the 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections as pivotal moments in American history. If World War l is viewed as the moment that the US became a world superpower (circa 1916), then 2020 may define the beginning of the end of the American Empire and its ‘White supremacist’ power structure....
Jahangir Mohammed, Director of the Ayaan Institute, says France should know all about terrorism because they practically invented it. I enjoy reading French political history and there is a great deal to learn from it. Recently, French President Emmanuel Macron declared that “Islam is in crisis” because of increasing political violence taking place in the...
As Pakistan turns 73, Jahangir Mohammed, Director of the Ayaan Institute, looks back at the country’s history of survival against the odds, war and nuclear power status. He argues that the road to the glorious Islamic homeland of its founding fathers will be a long and arduous one, but it is still possible. On August...
Jahangir Mohammed, Director of the Ayaan Institute says in the first year of his administration Imran Khan has yet to show any major signs of progress, but that may be because of huge opposition forces and vested interests opposed to any change. A year ago Pakistan elected a new Prime Minister, Imran Khan, after prolonged...
The Hindutva “reconquest” of Jammu and Kashmir has begun, and the subcontinent’s Muslims now face a powerful and fascist India, writes Jahangir Mohammed, Director of the Ayaan Institute. On the 5th of August, the Indian Parliament repealed Article’s 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution, which granted Jammu and Kashmir (JK) a special status. These...
