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Feb 14

Muslims Against Antisemitism Acknowledges the Ongoing Risk from Islamist Antisemitism

PRESS RELEASE: MUSLIMS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM ACKNOWLEDGES & CONFIRMS THE ONGOING RISK OF ISLAMIST ANTISEMITISM TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND NATION “I was alarmed at the prevalence of extreme antisemitism in the Channel cases I observed”. “Such examples I saw in Channel include: individuals expressing the intent to kill, assault or harm Jewish people or a particular Jewish individual threats to burn, desecrate or blow up a Synagogue the conduct of hostile Read more

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Sheikh Asrar Rashid
Apr 08

Sheikh Asrar Rashid’s Politicised & Aggressive Narrative Is Abhorrent

Sheikh Asrar Rashid is active within British Muslim faith circles and has been a preacher for some years now. The sad fact is that Sheikh Asrar Rashid, incorporates a politicised and aggressive narrative within his religious edicts. Whilst religious leaders have sometimes historically strayed into political speech, we have to highlight the deeply corrosive speech that Asrar Rashid gave on the 13th of June 2021, at a lecture entitled ‘Al-Aqsa Read more

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Jul 19

Owaiz Aslam

Owaiz Aslam is an experienced  educator and scholar-practitioner who is passionate about supporting young peacebuilders by training them in interfaith & inter religious activities by increasing young people’s civic engagement and democratic participation. He has been proactively designing interfaith curricula for students at schools & colleges and carries out research in the field of peacebuilding. Aslam has invested several years founding the global partnership organisation, the Indian Pluralism Foundation, which Read more

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Jul 07

Noor Dahri

Noor Dahri is the Founder and Executive Director of Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism- ITCT, a UK based Counter Islamist Terrorism Think Tank. Noor is also a contributing writer at US Homeland Security Magazine. Noor has recently been appointed as a Counter Terrorism expert at the International Team for the Study of Security (ITSS). Dahri studied an MSc in Terrorism, Security and Policing from Leicester University. He has also advised Read more

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Jun 29

Dr Rakib Ehsan

Dr Rakib Ehsan is a British independent analyst and writer, specialising in matters of social cohesion, community relations, and public security. He was appointed as a patron to Muslims Against Antisemitism in June 2021. Dr Ehsan holds a BA in Politics & International Relations (First-Class Honours), MSc in Democracy, Politics and Governance (Pass with Distinction), and a PhD in Political Science, all obtained from Royal Holloway, University of London. His Read more

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Apr 06

Jews Don’t Count. But Why Should They? A Book Review

By Wasiq Wasiq Antisemitism came to the public consciousness no greater than when the Labour Party, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, failed the Jewish community. So spectacular was this failure, that it led the Party to be investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). To put this into context, the only other party to gain the EHRC’s attention and therefore be subjected to an investigation was the Read more

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Jan 11

The U.A.E. unites Yemeni Jewish Families Separated for Decades

The United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) has facilitated two families of Yemeni Jewish heritage in their re-unification in the country. The U.A.E. helped in bringing together two Jewish Yemeni families and their relatives who had not seen each other for decades, this coming after the country facilitated the re-unification of another family of Jewish heritage a few months ago. These re-unification drives have been part of a warming of relations between Read more

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Jan 15

Anti-Semitism: The Trap Muslims Fall Into When Discussing Israel And Palestine

Background I was asked to write a piece on the sensitive topic of Israel and Palestine and how some Muslims seem to find themselves reciting anti-semitic tropes when discussing the issue. At first, I was reluctant to agree to it, given that such a sensitive topic would be received both positively and negatively from most people on either side of the divide. However, I felt that if this issue wasn’t Read more

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Sep 23

Standing up to Antisemitism: It’s not always easy, but always necessary

Please listen to Elizabeth Arif-Fear’s personal story that will provide you with an insight into the horrors of antisemitism. It’s an emotional, raw account, which as fellow human beings we should all be able to relate to in the spirit of humanity. We have also included the antisemitic abuse Elizabeth received on Twitter and how people seeing this spoke out in support of her. Here you see the picture Liz Read more

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Apr 25

We will not succumb to Hate

We will not succumb to hate In the last 8 months the world has seen a wave of violent attacks on faiths. They have been attacks at the heart of our communities intending to divide us, inspire more hate and more attacks of the same. In October of last year eleven people were killed in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States.[1] The terrorist opened fire Read more

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