The government offering over £24 million to defend mosques from hate crime is not a long-term solution to the oppression faced by UK Muslims given it refuses to address its own role in fuelling and emboldening Islamophobia, writes Afroze Zaidi.
Ramadan is not always the joyous period sold to us, many around the world struggle during these weeks. Afroze Fatima Zaidi reflects on her experiences of the holy month, which changed drastically when she was diagnosed with a chronic illness.
The pandemic left many Muslim men longing for their communal spaces of worship, but for Muslim women, this isolation is nothing new. Mosques must wake up and meet the diverse needs of women across the Ummah, writes Afroze Fatima Zaidi.
Eight years on from the ‘Trojan Hoax’ that put Birmingham on the map for extremist plots in schools, Muslims are still grappling with the idea that Islamophobia is not predicated on them being bad citizens after all, writes Afroze Fatima Zaidi.
