Islam
Tehran is repeating the Shah's mistakes
The Iranian province of Khuzestan is oil-rich but water-poor. At the best of times, the southwestern region is a problem…
Leave, convert or perish: The fate of Afghanistan's minorities
President Biden’s decision to ‘end the war in Afghanistan’ means the complete withdrawal of 3,500 US troops by the 20th…
Is anywhere in the world still safe for China’s Uighurs?
Is anywhere safe for the Uighurs?
Labour's worrying descent into communalism
Labour’s candidate in Batley and Spen, Kim Leadbeater, reportedly pulled out of a hustings featuring George Galloway over the weekend.…
Austria's 'Islam map' is dangerous
Austria’s government has unveiled a map detailing the locations of mosques and other Muslim associations all over the country. The…
The empire that sprang from nowhere under the banner of Islam
When the British formed the basis of their empire in the 1600s by acquiring territories in India and North America,…
The Tories, Islam, and the importance of pluralism
The Conservatives will be relieved that an independent investigation has not found the party to be institutionally racist, though relief…
What the demise of Quilliam teaches us about Britain and Islam
There was much rejoicing among Britain’s Islamists last week when the thinktank and campaigning organisation Quilliam announced that it was…
Why will nobody publish my religious cartoons?
I am having very little success in getting my collection of cartoons of great religious founders published. Perhaps it is…
Why Muslims like me are worried about the Batley protests
To some, the persecution of a schoolteacher who showed his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed may seem like…
Bangladesh could pay for failing to crack down on its Islamist threat
Bangladesh turned 50 last week and the country has much to celebrate. Having inherited a dismal GDP growth rate of…
The Batley Grammar school row is the perfect jihadist recruitment tool
As controversy continues to rage after pupils were shown an image of the prophet Muhammad by a teacher at Batley Grammar School,…
Are Switzerland and France really ‘Islamophobic’?
Is Switzerland ‘Islamophobic’? Critics of the country’s decision to outlaw face coverings think so. The ‘Burqa ban’, which passed into law this week…
Macron is using Islam to outmanoeuvre Le Pen
There was a rally in Paris on Sunday at which a couple of hundred protestors vented their anger at the…
When will Pakistan take a stand against terror?
Last week, Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of UK born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh who was accused of kidnapping…
What the West can do about China’s Uyghur labour camps
Who profits from Uyghur labour camps?
It’s been a tough year for socialites
New York Here we go again, the annual holiest of holies is upon us, although to this oldie last Christmas…
Britain is still failing to confront Islamism
How time flies. In March 2014, quite out of the blue, I was commissioned by then prime minister David Cameron…
A third of Muslim voters backed Trump. Why?
Donald Trump’s defeat in the election was widely predicted. What was less anticipated was the level of support Trump received…
Pilgrimage in the age of pandemic
Pilgrimage in the age of pandemic
There is no justification for turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque
It’s a mistake to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
Netflix’s Caliphate is all too frighteningly plausible
Sweden is now properly celebrated as the Land that Called Coronavirus Correctly. But in the distant past, those with long…
Islam, reform and the battle of narratives
Is a wind of change blowing in the Arab world and bringing Muslims and Jews closer together? Ed Husain made…
Islam’s reformation: an Arab-Israeli alliance is taking shape in the Middle East
When Benjamin Netanyahu visited Oman in 2018 in a gesture of goodwill to Israel’s neighbours, the welcome was not universal.…
The chilling stories from inside China’s Muslim internment camps
Vegetable-seller Kairat Samarkhan didn’t know why he had been summoned to the police station. ‘I had to empty my pockets…
