Message from Islamophobia Defending the Chairman Awards Muslim Rights PAGE 5 PAGES 8-9 PAGE 12 VOLUME 15 - RAMADAN 1435 / JUNE 2014

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

THE AIMS OF THE ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION I To champion the rights and duties revealed for human beings. I To promote a new social and international order, based on truth, justice, righteousness and generosity,rather than self-interest. I To demand virtue and oppose wrongdoing in the exercise of power (from whatever base that power derives - e.g. political, judicial, media, economic, military,personal, etc.). UNITED I To gather information about, and to publicise, atrocities, oppression, discrimination, and WE STAND, other abuses of divinely-granted rights. I To campaign for redress, and to DIVIDED support the victims of such crimes. Protesters at the I To campaign to annual Al-Quds Day bring the WE FALL march and rally, 2013 perpetrators and their accomplices to justice. I To cooperate with “If you don’t stand for something, other groups and individuals where you will fall for anything.” - Malcolm X such cooperation is likely to further the alcom X’s command and obvious necessity, those who strive for justice. How session and all it entails, as achievement of these quote high- Muslims do not unite. The mani- is it that a community that claims insignificant in comparison to the aims. lights the festations of such are everywhere to struggle for justice cannot crimes of whatever tyrant is de problems of – the internecine fighting and develop the theoretical and prac- rigueur in western press and pol- The Islamic M c o n c e p t u a l bloodshed in Syria and Libya, the tical understanding necessary to icy circles. illiteracy. As continued disintegration of Iraq do so? Rather we extend the idea Our existence is split between Human Rights I m a m and Pakistan, the rise of sectarian – a truly Enlightenment, not our aspirations and a reality Commission is an Achmad Cassiem of South Africa hatred in Indonesia and enlightened one – that the ends which not only is far from our often states the mission of the Malaysia, the list goes on. It justifies the means, and that our aims but a reality that we obdu- NGO in Special Holy Prophet Muhammad appears that the need to under- own personal and sectarian rately worsen whilst claiming to Consultative Status (peace and blessings be upon stand – another clear Divine causes define what Truth and hold onto Islamic values. We are Him) was not to teach the Arabs command – is one that we have Justice are. Where not so long trapped by ideas of the nation with the Economic Arabic but to bring conceptual yet to internalise. ago there was some semblance of state, yet claim we are part of the and Social Council literacy. All these events and so many Unity – on Palestine for example Ummah. We accept the narra- of the United It has been another difficult more - the coup in Egypt is yet – we have been lured into the tives of Western governments year, and yet despite the impera- another – serve agendas external trap of demeaning the momen- Continued on page 2 Nations tive on Muslims by dint of Divine and inimical to Muslims and all tous cruelty of 66 years of dispos-

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Continued from page 1 sight of the bigger picture because However, this sort of rhetoric we are being attacked from all should be expected from the likes that our lives and the systems we sides on a daily basis. One day it is of Tony Blair. What is more dis- live in are much better than those the government implying that all turbing is the actions of Muslim of the countries so many of us may Muslims have a propensity for states such as Saudi Arabia and the have hailed from. We do not see extremist behaviour in the United Arab Emirates, who have Islamophobia and anti-Muslim Tackling Extremism in the UK put into practice Blair’s policy,and hatred as we should, as the by- report, and on another it is a fabri- funded the military coup of the Poets Ibrahim Sincere (l) and Sanáa Sultan regaled product of wars against Muslims cated story of children being only democratically elected gov- audiences with their work to celebrate Mohammad Hamza's elsewhere and the precursor to 'Blair’s support ernment in Egypt’s history. They exhibition ‘Intifada Street' such military interventions. have also identified the Muslim Without anti-Muslim racism for the Egyptian Brotherhood as a terrorist organi- becoming the norm, military inter- sation. This is the same Muslim ventions against Muslims else- military, as well Brotherhood they are supporting where would not be so readily against Bashar al-Assad in Syria. accepted or formulated. as for the Syrian Arab Spring When movements arise to Disillusionment change those situations ‘over opposition, there’ they are crushed or demonstrates this socialised to neo-liberal norms, or What is also shocking is our as in the case of Egypt, both. Yet conflation of inability to think outside arenas of we continue to play the same nationalism and sectarianism, and game, to blame and fight each Western and look at the bigger picture in order other while the world burns, in to realise that no Muslim, be they part at our own hands. Each party Zionist interests Egyptian or Syrian, Bahraini or in this intra-Muslim melee seeks Libyan, is better off than before the not reconciliation with the other in the region' ‘Arab Spring’. If anything, there but with the powers that be - par- Mark Gonzales shared his 'Secrets to Surviving the Idiots' has been more death, destruction ticularly the US and its satraps. during an evening of Spoken Word and displacement, and the only When David Cameron launched indoctrinated in a Birmingham smiles are on the faces of our ene- an enquiry into the Muslim school, or that the food we eat is mies. They are agent provocateurs Brotherhood in the UK with a view unethical, or that we are collec- who promote disunity on all sides to criminalising the organisation, tively responsible for the violent and create the ugliest of images the failure to understand the enor- actions of Boko Haram. The under the banner of Islam. Boko mity of enmity was staggering. attacks we are subjected to are end- Haram, the so-called mujahideen Instead of exposing the British less. who eat the hearts of fellow human government for its support of a One of our problems is that we beings with an audience shouting military coup at the behest of a are failing to understand the rheto- ‘Allahu Akbar’, and those sectar- ruthless dictatorship, activists lim- ric of prominent figures such as ian agents who in reality represent ited their criticism to the meek Tony Blair, who in his latest speech neither Shia nor Sunni , are all the request that a member of the on the Middle East, articulated that same. And they are all given plat- Brotherhood should be on the the world should be united in tack- forms in the west to promote their inquiry panel. ling the ‘problem’ of political poisonous messages and lies. Islam. China, Russia and the West Western Machinations At the height of the conflict in should put aside their difference Bosnia, when Muslims were sys- and unify against politically active tematically being slaughtered and Veterans for Peace activist Joe Glenton joined us to discuss his Muslims. Part of the strategy, he book Soldier Box raped, the consensus was that this The time to excuse such said, should include supporting could have been prevented if they manoeuvring as naïve is long the military junta in Egypt, which were united, and it was the West gone. As easily as Westernised has set up kangaroo courts and which was ‘stopping us from governments promoted a full scale sentenced over one thousand peo- being unified’. Mustafa Ceric, war in Syria, they now just as eas- ple to death for the alleged murder Mufti of Bosni Herzegovina ily demonise those young men and of one police officer. Conversely, asked: ‘then why do you let them?’ women, who emboldened by a not even one member of the police One of the most effective ways of political and media narrative, went has been held accountable for the identifying the enemies of Islam to fight. It is nothing new. When murders of thousands of civilians. and Muslims is on the basis of the USSR was defeated and Blair’s support for this atrocity, as those who work hard to finance expelled from Afghanistan, those well as for the Syrian opposition, disunity. Why are we not more hailed as brave mujahideen by the demonstrates this conflation of organised? Why do we not stand BBC no less, were then demonised both Western and Zionist interests up for our rights and the rights of as Islamic extremists. How did we in the region. Anyone who sup- others with the compassion of the make the same mistake again? ports this atrocity and the junta likes of the Prophet of Allah, sent Played time and again, Muslims while at the same time champi- as a mercy to all creation? must surely at some point learn oning the Syrian opposition can- Standing for justice for ourselves and seek guidance from the time of not claim to support justice, and all human beings is a com- our Prophet (peace and blessings democracy or the people of the mandment of Allah (the Glorified be upon Him) of when and how to region, but instead simply exposes and Exalted). We are all His Relive the Islamophobia Awards on the IHRC TV channel fight in the struggle to attain justice their vested interests in propping vicegerents and united we have in the service of the most Just. up the Western and Zionist the capacity to create a better and It is clear that we are losing agenda. just society for all mankind.

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he Universal Justice actually coming from the grass- Network (UJN) was set roots and did not appear to be up in 2008 to deal with institutionalised. Local scholars T international issues in are banning Islamic books and cooperation with civil gatherings, whilst all the time society organisations. It has two Christian missionary work is gain- secretariats, one in London, UK ing ground (thousands have con- headed by IHRC and the second verted to Christianity and one in Penang, Malaysia headed churches are springing up every- by Citizens International (CI). where). Both the Indonesians and Currently UJN has a network of 50 Malaysians have also requested different organisations in more UJN to assist with conflict resolu- than 20 countries. A key focus of tion and we are currently in the UJN’s work has been the issue of planning stages of setting up a sectarianism. meeting with some key players in UJN has identified Malaysia, a similar way to what we did with Indonesia and Pakistan as key the Pakistanis. areas where sectarian strife has Extremists or takfiris thrive on been rising. Last year we success- portraying a world that is black fully managed to bring together and white. They justify their various high profile religious and actions through innovations and political leaders from Pakistan, selective readings of traditional associated with groups and ten- texts. All of this has been dencies at loggerheads with one addressed in the Amman Message another, to engage in conflict reso- (www.ammanmessage.com) by lution. Over a period of a week in leading scholars who agreed on Bodrum, Turkey, UJN facilitated three fundamental points: workshops, training and a safe Participants at the Muslim World Priority space in which to have frank dis- Meeting on Pakistan held in Bodrum, Turkey 1. They specifically recognised cussions about their differences. join hands to read Dua Wahdat the validity of all 8 Madhahib Despite heated disagreements, by (legal schools) of Sunni, Shi'a the end of the week, the various and Ibadi Islam; of traditional leaders agreed an eleven-point the verse 103, sura 3 of the Holy in Sampang whole communities sure. Many people are losing their Islamic Theology (Ash'arism); of unity declaration that they all Qur’an calling for unity. The vari- were uprooted and one person jobs due to their religious convic- Islamic Mysticism (Sufism), and signed on behalf of their organisa- ous leaders have committed to even killed due to their beliefs. tions, books are being banned and of true Salafi thought, and came tions and sects. uphold these values, to be our ears There was hardly any governmen- religious gatherings are being to a precise definition of who is a The declaration denounced on the ground and to report back tal intervention and the violence raided by the police resulting in Muslim. the killing of fellow human beings on any issues. Our second meet- was allowed to take place. UJN imprisonment without trial. UJN on the basis of colour, creed, eth- ing will be held with the same facilitated humanitarian aid to met various Amman Message sig- 2. Based upon this definition nicity or religion as haram. The group and the participants have those affected, after they were natories who agreed this was get- they forbade takfir (declarations statements also declared excom- also invited UJN to go to Pakistan forced to live in a shelter with no ting out of hand and would be of apostasy) between Muslims. munication or takfir against fel- to step up the work of conflict res- access to food, water, basic neces- willing to speak out as a group to low Muslims and abusing the olution. sities and schooling. challenge this current trend. But 3. Based upon the Madhahib they Prophet Muhammad’s family and In May 2014 UJN made field In Malaysia UJN observed that many were hesitant to do so indi- set forth the subjective and companions to be against the trips to Malaysia and Indonesia to sectarianism was actually institu- vidually believing that to do so objective preconditions for the Shariah. The declaration is based meet senior religious and political tionalised; the orders came from would adversely affect their posi- issuing of fatwas, thereby expos- on Charter 3:103, an IHRC project leaders. In Malaysia sectarianism very high up, influenced by exter- tions and livelihoods. ing ignorant and illegitimate initiated in 1997 that is based on has reached such ugly depths that nal financial and political pres- In Indonesia sectarianism was edicts. Bringing Injustice to Light: IHRC ATTHE UNITED NATIONS he Islamic Human Rights Council (ECOSOC). The main UN agency in the Commission (IHRC) is Consultative status gives area of human rights is the Office T among the many social IHRC a unique opportunity of the High Commissioner for and economic Non- within the UN system to do advo- Human Rights (OHCHR). Governmental Organisations cacy and lobbying work and pres- IHRC has submitted state- Arzu Merali, barrister Mohammed Moola and barrister (NGOs) representing civil socie- ent its concerns and issues in the ments on countries where there Toby Cadman discuss the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh. ty to be given the privilege of area of human rights to the key are gross human rights violations consultative status at the United decision makers inside the UN, its such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nations Economic and Social member states and to other NGOs. Bahrain and Israel. IHRC has also submitted statements on countries and delegates to highlight issues which are considerable stable which are not widely covered by democracies, some of them part of the mainstream media or other the European Union. NGOs. The OHCHR holds Universal During the 25th Session of the Periodic Reviews (UPR) of human Human Rights Council in March rights over the course of the year. 2014, IHRC held three side panel The most recent UPR statement to events on Bangladesh, Malaysia be submitted by IHRC’s research and Pakistan. team concerned Egypt. It high- The side panel on Bangladesh lighted IHRC concerns over the consisted of legal experts includ- coup d’etat in Egypt of 3 July 2013, ing an international crimes the overthrow of President Morsi lawyer raising their concerns and the Muslim Brotherhood-led about the irregularities in the government, and the subsequent judicial process during the recent massacre of political demonstra- ICT war crimes trials and the sys- tors at two protest sites at al- tematic victimisation of the politi- Nahda Square and Rabaa al- cal opposition by the ruling party. Adawiya Mosque in Cairo on 14 In the side panel meeting on August 2013. IHRC recom- Malaysia, concerns were raised mended that there should be an by the panellists on the country’s international inquiry into the mas- anti-terrorism laws and rising You can help by donating... sacres and the military led govern- sectarianism. ment and that the international The third side panel that BANK: Lloyds TSB Bank community should refuse to IHRC organised at the 25th ACCOUNT NAME: Justice For Aa a Coalition recognise the constitution intro- Session of the Human Rights ACCOUNT NUMBER: 41160960 duced by the military regime. Council was on targeted killings SORT CODE: 30 94 42 During the Human Rights against Barelvi Muslims, Shia For further information: Council, IHRC also hosts side Muslims, Christians and other IBAN: GB37LOYD30944241160960 www.justiceforaa a.org panel meetings to highlight minorities by Takfiri groups in SWIFT: LOYDGB21112 e | info@justiceforaa a.org human rights situations in partic- Pakistan. ular countries. This is an opportu- Jawad Hussain nity to interact with other NGOs IHRC 5 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Dear Supporters, death penalty made without repeal Schedule 7 of the stateless. Nonetheless, IHRC subjected to anti-Muslim acts of due process. IHRC has been Terrorism Act 2000, which gives will continue to challenge the terror than those who fell vic- working with Bahrain-based security officials the power to government and policymakers tim to crimes committed in the his past year has been human rights groups to analyse stop, question and detain indi- on such issues, as we did with name of their religion. These especially tumultuous the situation on the ground, viduals at ports around the the successful campaign to acts included those carried out in terms of the chal- which includes the induction of country. IHRC has lobbied have body scanners removed against fourteen mosques lenges faced by Pakistani nationals into the intensively against this law, from airports that were truly across the country. These statis- T Muslims across the police force. We are working to particularly as it is used in a tar- invasive in their capturing of tics need to be utilised to stress world. We are experiencing highlight these issues with the geted way towards Muslims, nude images of travellers, again to the government the poison- increasing levels of violence, in and is also used as a means of under the pretext of national ous nature of its rhetoric and physical form and in rhetoric, recruiting informants, a clear security. policies, and that they are detri- both harmful in their own breach of protocol. However, In order to better under- mental to the Muslim popula- ways. We are also seeing sectar- Following the changes have been made to the stand the detrimental impact tion of Britain. Additionally, ian divisions, fuelled by the legislation which provides for a these attacks are having on our figures from 2009 demon- same individuals and entities summer of less invasive experience when Muslims in the UK IHRC strate that 13.9 percent of sur- who inflict violence upon us, stopped under the power. This recently conducted a survey of vey respondents had been vic- and who are aided and abetted 2013 there were includes the requirement to experiences of hate crimes tims of violent physical assault. by those within our own com- have a solicitor present if you within our communities. This With the aftermath of munities who seek financial more Muslims are detained under Schedule 7. followed the pilot hate crime Woolwich this number will gain from a divided ummah. IHRC has recently launched a project in 2009. The latter will have no doubt increased, high- Now more than ever the subjected to Know Your Rights app on be compared to the former in lighting the inadequacies of Islamic Human Rights Schedule 7 for Android and order to give our supporters as government-sponsored organi- Commission’s commitment to a anti-Muslim Apple phones and tablets to well as those in power a more sations which dangerously pan-Islamic identity seems allow for easy and immediate accurate picture of the situation downplay the actual suffering essential. We are committed to acts of terror access to this information. It as it stands. This is particularly Muslim communities experi- working towards a united glob- helps identify what to do if you important as the policy follow- ence at the hands of al community that strives than those get stopped under this law, ing Woolwich was to leave Islamophobes. towards the example set by the what your rights are, and who Muslim communities to fend As part of this project we Prophet Muhammad (peace who fell victim to contact for help. for themselves against have just launched our most and blessings be upon him). Additionally, we are offering Islamophobic attacks, whilst recent report on hate crimes in This is essential when Muslims to crimes workshops to train groups and extra security was provided for Canada. It is part of a series that are experiencing a culture of individuals on how to exercise military bases. Following the includes a focus on the USA, hate and facing increasingly committed their rights in such a situation. summer of 2013 there were France and Germany, as well as serious violence in Egypt, Fighting more Muslims the UK, in order to build up a Bahrain, the Central African in the name clearer picture of anti- Republic, Indonesia, Iraq, discrimination Muslim crimes in the Kashmir, Malaysia, Myanmar, of their West, something that Pakistan, Palestine, and Syria, is not taken seriously as well as countries in the West religion IHRC has also actively lob- by these governments. such as the UK, France and the These projects rep- USA, to name just a few. bied against the proposed pow- ers for the Home Secretary to resent just a small part This year IHRC has worked of the work that IHRC on numerous issues around the remove British citizenship from naturalised individuals. conducts every day, a world, but one of the key areas United Nations Human Rights clear indicator of the has been that of the sectarian- Under the guise of national Council, while at the same time security, this places an inordi- fact that the experi- ism that appears to be flourish- calling out the hypocrisy of the ence of Muslims ing in Malaysia and Indonesia. nate amount of power in the British government on this hands of one individual, and around the world is Following a recent fact-finding issue. The UK has provided still worsening. That is mission to these countries, it indirectly discriminates arms in the way of trade agree- against non-white citizens. The why we rely on the has become clear that Saudi ments to the ruling family support of our commu- Arabia is spending vast sums of government has made minor which have been used against concessions, agreeing that an nity and people like money across the region in the Bahraini people. you. We ask that you order to spread disunity and Independent Reviewer will Additionally, Bahrain is home oversee the procedure. increase your support to sectarian strife. There is no to the UK’s largest naval base in tackle the increasing basis for trying to redefine what However, we should still be the Middle East, making it all deeply concerned about a clear problems we face by giv- constitutes a Muslim following the more reluctant to criticise ing generously and keep- the signing of the Amman trend within government to the Bahraini regime. ignore concerns that policies ing us in your Declaration by ulema around This hypocrisy is echoed in prayers. the world, accepted by govern- could result in serious human Britain’s stance on Egypt, rights abuses, which ments and registered with the where despite the overthrow of United Nations. In collabora- in this case, the country’s first democratical- w o u l d tion with the Universal Justice ly elected President, our gov- Network, IHRC will be produc- render ernment has expressed support i n d i - ing a report with the intention for a new military regime of working with Malaysian and v i d - which has sentenced hundreds uals Indonesian politicians and of it own citizens to death. activists, as well as the United Within Britain we are also Nations, to encourage a more seeing difficulties for Muslim just and open society for their communities. While attacks fol- citizens. lowing the Woolwich murder of Conflict resolution Drummer Lee Rigby continue, they are further fuelled by an irresponsible government and a hostile media. In recent weeks IHRC’s ground-breaking we have seen a recurrence of conflict resolution programme ‘halal hysteria’ and the falsi- culminated in the Bodrum fied ‘Trojan Horse’ story. On Declaration signed last year, top of that we have the gov- uniting the ulema in Pakistan in ernment declaring that it is their commitment to overcom- for the ‘public good’ to ing the rising levels of sectari- monitor the actions of anism within the country and Muslims in general, the subsequent violence that even to the point ensues from such rhetoric. where it is encourag- IHRC has always and continues ing teachers to spy to address the needs and aspi- on students and rations of the community and mothers to spy on support all according to their their children in need rather than nationality, order to identify creed, or indeed even religion. traits of extremism, Bahrain is also experiencing as though it is an major internal struggles, with inherent feature of protests violently quelled by the Muslim character. Massoud Shadjareh security forces, arrests, impris- In addition the gov- Chair, Islamic Human onment and impositions of the ernment has failed to Rights Commission 6 IHRC Research: Professor facts and figures in serious and informative research, Tariq ensuring that we, the public, are kept accurately Ramadan: informed in a consistent and academic way. I am Research very supportive of their work and their truly “Operating to the highest valuable contribution.” standards over the years, The Islamic Human Rights TARIQ RAMADAN, for Rights Commission continues to Professor of Contemporary remain active and serious Islamic Studies, University in its work. Through its of Oxford; Executive he IHRC Research tion. The briefing highlighted how activities, the IHRC has Director, research Center department has been media organisations can use and evolved to become an for Islamic Studies and busy this year, providing abuse the idea of free speech and important voice which Ethics (CILE). T back-up to the campaign investigative journalism and the brings to our attention key and advocacy departments and limited effectiveness of existing presenting work to the United complaint mechanisms. Nations and other fora. ‘Is Islamophobia a Form of term prisoners like Abdul-Jalil context to events in the UK was Pakistan looking at strategies for A number of our briefings have Racism?’ and ‘Decolonising Alsingace and Hassan Mushaima, also set up and is regularly updat- social reconciliation and creating a been translated into various lan- France’, in both English and Italian, a briefing on the use of foreign mer- ed. The comment and blogs section safer and cohesive society. The guages, including Spanish, French, presented the views of Ramon cenaries in the country has been of the website has seen a prolifera- report presented their views on Italian and Farsi. Grosfoguel and Houria Bouteldja published and will be turned into a tion of articles on current affairs how difference can be managed to In addition to supporting work respectively in the field of decolo- documentary. relating to human rights abuses avoid conflict and escalation into to the DHMIR project on hate nial studies, looking at the contin- A more detailed theoretical dis- and also human rights theories. violence. crimes like the briefing ‘Assessing ued impact of colonial systems on cussion on constitutional change in Subjects covered include the mili- Whether offering contributions Hate Crimes and Backlash for the world today. Bahrain called Shuracracy has set tary coup in Egypt, Remembrance to academic debates or providing Policy Change’, IHRC has put The department also provided the research agenda for the coming Day, Structural Racism, the Mark easily accessible information to together briefings on increasing support to the Campaigns and UN year as we aim to look at how rep- Duggan inquest finding, Muslim campaigners, policymakers and securitisation, and the continued sections of IHRC putting together resentative government and schooling in the UK and the unrav- journalists, IHRC research fills a framing of Muslims as a terrorism briefings on Mumia Abu Jamal and Islamic discourses converge in elling of the Arab Spring. much needed gap in a world full of threat. ‘British Muslims: The Lynne Stewart, as well as highlight- meaningful ways and need room Two reports were written in dubious information and claims. Suspect Community?’ and the ing their cases and those of Aafia for expression. support of the Muslim World Your support helps us increase the IHRC Response to Tackling Siddiqui, Imam Jamil and the Holy An eyewitness account and Priority Project run by Universal amount of reports and briefings we Extremism in the UK, a govern- Land Five. Alhamdulillah the analysis of recent events in Central Justice Network. Investigating can commission. Please consider ment report, responded to new pro- release of Lynne Stewart at the end African Republic provided much Claims of Sectarianism (Indonesia) supporting us with a small dona- posals and measures that target of 2013 was a blessing that boosted needed context to the crisis unfold- overviewed the findings on the tion that will enable us to provide Muslims in the UK. morale amongst campaigners. ing there. delegation to Indonesia in 2013. this much needed service to mar- IHRC also put together a brief- Bahrain has been the focus of A resource page on the ‘Attitudes toward Conflicts and ginalised communities. ing based on its own experiences of much research this year. Aside Operation Trojan Horse crisis pro- Resolutions’ surveyed participants Amirah Ali complaining about misrepresenta- from highlighting the cases of long- viding links and commentary and in a closed door session on

California, Berkeley. Following different countries left him disil- by which the decolonisation of IHRC Bookshop on from last year's event 'Is lusioned and he returned suffer- the Muslim world continues to be Islamophobia a form of ing from symptoms of post-trau- deflected and deferred. Racism?', Ramon elaborated on matic stress disorder. This year we also screened his thesis that race was the In March 2014 we welcomed various documentaries. In & Gallery report organising principle through back Arun Kundani who talked January 2014 we screened Turab which hierarchies operated to about his new book ‘’The Shah’s film, Zone Of The Non- colonise and continue to control Muslims Are Coming’’ that deals Being: Guantanamo, made for peoples around the world. with the so-called domestic war IHRC about Guantanamo Bay t’s been another eventful year and the Assat-Tupac Liberation In February 2014 Pat on terror in various countries. and how it represented a physical I at the IHRC Bookshop & School, we started a year long Winslow and Mark Marqusee to Our most recent author manifestation of Fanon’s Zone of Gallery. In September 2013, course conducted by Dr Syed talk about a new poem by Talha evening in June 2014 was with Non-Being. T he film was based October 2013 and May 2014 we Mustafa Ali, a lecturer in the Ahsan, the Asperger’s sufferer Dan Glazebook (June 2014) in on the thesis that the war on terror were delighted to hold more Computing Department of The who was deported from the UK which he talked about his new is a continuation of colonial policy Decolonising the Mind courses Open University (UK) whose to the US in 2012 to be tried book ‘Divide and Ruin’ dealing that Fanon so comprehensively led by Sandew Hira from the academic research focuses on under so-called terrorism with the development and refine- exposed. International Institute for investigating issues at the inter- charges. ment of 'western' strategy in rela- In March 2014 Sheena and Scientific Research in Holland. section of critical race theory/ Our regular author evenings tion to the Global South. Sonum Sumaria’s film “Even the Hira is a leading critic of the new decolonial studies and comput- included Soldier Box, held in Our upcoming author evening Crows: A Divided Gujarat” traced colonial discourse and legacy of ing/ ICT. August 2013, by ex-soldier Joe J. will be our second one with their journey from London to the colonialism. In December 2013, we were Glenton. Glenton reveals why he Salman Sayyid who will discuss USA and Gujarat in North-West In October 2013, in conjunc- delighted to welcome back left the army, and the personal his new book “Recalling the India, as they uncovered the gris- tion with SOAS-2 (the School of Professor Ramón Grosfoguel war he faced fighting for his con- Caliphate” in which he analyses ly and depressing backdrop and occidental and Aryan Studies) from the University of victions. What he saw overseas in the displacements and invasions aftermath of the anti-Muslim riots in 2002. This year the gallery also screened documentary-maker Roshan Salih’s film “Travelling by Muslim”, which looked at the workings of the notorious British anti-terrorism measure, Schedule 7. We also had more storytelling sessions with Zainab Zahra, including a reading of Ilyas & the Duck and other stories, and her own work, The Kind Traveller about the travels of the young Che Guevara. The IHRC Gallery hosted a diverse array of art exhibitions including ‘Visionary Awakening’ by Nasreen Sheikh Jamal Al-Layl (September 2013 to early March), a mixed media installation that reflected the artist’s experiences as a product of Saudi and British cul- ture. Our current exhibition is Another Day by Sara Russell which will conclude in September 2014. The photo exhibition is based on the young photograph- er’s visit to Palestine. For more information about Sara’s exhibi- tion visit http://ihrc.org.uk/ events/11006-sara-russell-anoth- er-day-exhibition We are looking forward to hosting many more events in the coming year. If you are an author or artist or filmmaker and would like to organise an event at the shop, please contact us [email protected] or call 020 8904 4222. Ali Akbar IHRC 7 How Can We Learn and Documenting the Teach a Better World? effects and causes of Decolonising anti-Muslim hatred: Education Focus on Canada and the UK

HRC’s groundbreaking IHRC IHRC is the only organisation work into Islamophobia to have carried out academically I continued this year. Saied is the only rigorous studies on this subject in R. Ameli and Arzu order to be able to present reliable Merali’s book ‘Only Canadian: organisation statistics about the levels of anti- The Experience of Hate to have Muslim hated experienced by Moderated Differential communities. IHRC is hoping to Citizenship for Muslims’ provid- carried out extend this project to Australia ed a stark overview of the situa- next year, and re-run it in France tion in Canada, based on field- academically in 2015. work including two surveys rigorous studies Additional work on France undertaken in 2012. Published in based on the findings of IHRC’s May 2014, the book has received on this subject pilot project there in 2009 – 2010 Ramon Grosfoguel (centre) explaining some great reviews. Among its was presented to the First Annual European hegemony of knowledge findings was that only Paris' Islamophobia 2% of Muslims sur- Conference in December veyed said they had 2013. An outline of why n March 2014, IHRC in Raza Kazim. never had a hate experi- DHMIR methodology is I association with the ALICE The participants decoded ence. Overall, some such an important con- Project at the University of how colonial narratives domi- 10% said they had expe- cept was published in Coimbra held a panel event nate what is understood to be rienced a physical Ceasefire magazine and entitled Decolonising knowledge today and set out attack, but other types can be found here: Education: How Can We Learn the need for a pluriversal proj- of experiences included http://ceasefire maga- and Teach a Better World? ect of knowledge production. verbal abuse, seeing zine.co.uk /race-organis- Broadcast world-wide via Dr. Nasir in particular high- negative stereotypes ing-principle-functional- IHRC.tv and soon to be lighted the lacuna that exists about Muslims on TV, ity-islamophobia-today/ uploaded to our Video chan- between a decolonial narra- and being denied servic- As with so many of nel, this event brought together tive and the existing concepts es. our projects, this one was leading decolonial thinkers of knowledge outside a The ubiquity of developed on a small and activists and Islamic schol- Western hegemonic frame- hatred across Muslim budget. Part of the aim ars to address this critical ques- work, alluding to writers and communities in Canada was to be able to provide tion. philosophers like Naquib al- was alarming given the grassroots community The panel consisted of Attas. Professor Grosfoguel perception of Canada as groups (whether docu- Ramon Grosfoguel, University spoke of the hegemonic con- a tolerant, multicultural menting hatred against of California – Berkeley, Julia trol of terms like religion country. A review of Muslims or other out- Suárez-Krabbe, Roskilde which inadequately describe existing literature groups) with a method- University, Houria Bouteldja, a all belief systems, yet really showed that discrimina- ology for collecting data. founder of the Party of the only describe a post- tion against Muslims in The reviews of the Indigenous of the Republic, Enlightenment narrative the field of employment DHMIR publications Sandew Hira, Director of about Christianity in a had been well docu- have indicated that the International Institute for European(ised) state. mented from the 1980s project fills a void left by Scientific Research (IISR), Dr. The full event can be until the present day, governmental failures to Mohamad Nasir, Malaysian viewed on-line. Visit the with Muslims likely to record anti-Muslim academic and writer and VIDEO section on our website earn up to one third less hatred. Mohideen Abdelkader of for further details. than their counterparts Amirah Ali Citizens International. The Amirah Ali in the majority commu- event was chaired by IHRC’s nity in the same job / with the same qualifica- tions. The authors of the book argued that Muslims were suffering from ingrained prejudices that are foundational to the idea of Canada, and which can be seen to affect many other communities in Canada, not least the First Nations. The underlying theory of the project developed by Ameli – the Domination Hate Model of Intercultural Relations – argues that hate attacks, crimes and acts of discrimination are not random acts of deranged individuals. 'FFEJOH Rather, it maintains that those people who commit such acts are provoked to do so by an environ- ment of hatred caused by policy, media and law that targets a 'VUVSFT hated society. In the studies undertaken by IHRC so far in the UK, France, the USA and Canada, 4JYUZ
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The Islamophobia Awards returned in 2014 after a ISLAMOPHOBIA well-earned break. Sadly the reasons for its existence haven’t diminished Original art by Siddiqa Juma being auctioned during its absence. Nasheed artist AWARDS 2014 Khaleel Muhammad

HRC’s social highlight Islamophobia as “stereotypes, of the year, the bias or acts of hostility towards Islamophobia Awards, individual Muslims or followers returned in 2014 with its of Islam in general. In addition to I usual fare of fine food, individual acts of intolerance and exciting entertainment racial profiling, Islamophobia and ironic recognition of the leads to viewing Muslims as a rogues who have done most to greater security threat on an insti- hurt Muslims and their faith tutional, systemic and societal over the preceding 12 months. level and perceiving their views The Awards were inaugurated to be intrinsically problematic, in 2003 as a light-hearted swipe at violent or unethical.” public figures whose actions have Islamophobia remains a seri- generated or perpetuated hatred ous problem around the world and/or violence against Muslims and has been massively exacer- or their religion. Although they bated in recent years by the main- may give the impression of trivi- ly western protagonists of the so- alising Islamophobia they are a called War on Terror who have Aki Nawaz fantastic way of drawing atten- torn up the rule book on human presented an tion to its worst manifestations. rights, not to counter terrorism as award that Throughout the year the IHRC is claimed, but to neutralise evening is tirelessly engaged in the serious threats to their interests around Some of the IHRC team that brought you the business of tackling the globe. Islamophobia Awards together on the night Islamophobes and helping their Testing year victims, so it is a refreshing change to be able to recognise this work by poking fun at the perpe- America's first president of colour self the darling of the British right In addition to the spoof Hatem-Bazian its research agenda trators. The Awards also give our 2013 proved a particularly and "great black hope" had been by attacking Muslim organisa- awards, the event also recognised is centred on Muslims in the supporters the opportunity to testing time for many Muslim nominated for "just about every- tions and figures as extremists for and sent a message of support Diaspora and the intersection meet us in an informal social set- communities. At home public and thing" - a charge that covers his defending Muslims' rights. and encouragement to those who between race, ethnicity, gender, ting and get a more personal media discourse reached new policy of drone strikes in the First prize in the Europe and have worked to combat nationality, and religion on one insight into our staff and our heights of xenophobia with Muslim world as well as his con- Central Asia category went to the Islamophobia. IHRC presented side and the global "war on ter- work. attacks on Islamic education, tinuing failure to close the notori- Dutch far-right politician Geert five awards to individuals and ror" on the other, its impact on This year’s event took place hijab and niqab, and segregation ous Guantanamo Bay detention Wilders. Wilders is the leader of groups who have toiled to undo Muslim communities and on February 8 at the Holiday Inn of the sexes. The British govern- centre. the injustices and expose the poi- American culture, and the use of Hotel in Wembley, London and ment published yet another series Obama came in well ahead of "I love the tone of this sonous propaganda of the the war to reintroduce long dis- featured a host of well-known of “deradicalisation” proposals in a gallery of fellow rogues which event as it takes an Islamophobes. credited Eurocentric paradigms. performers including nasheed its continuing programme of included other prominent politi- Deserving winners IRDP hosts an annual internation- artist Khaleel Muhammad who engineering a more compliant cians including French President issue that has at its al Islamophobia conference and performed a characteristically Muslim community, while on the Francois Hollande - cited for his heart darkness and has been routinely targeted by soulful performance, and the poet streets Muslims and mosques country's invasion Zionists and Islamophobes. They included Veterans for Melissa Melodee who gave a continued to be attacked by indi- of Mali - and the seeks to make it A genuine award also went to Peace UK, a group of ex-Army Hassen moving rendition of her “Israeli viduals incited to violence by the British Home the veteran US lawyer and lighter on our veterans of the western invasions Rasool was Commemoration” about Zionist incessant drip feed of S e c r e t a r y human rights campaigner Lynne of Iraq and Afghanistan, who one of the dehumanisation of the occupied Islamophobia from the mass Theresa May community.After all Stewart. In 2005 Stewart was spu- oppose the military campaigns Qaris on the Palestinians. media. for a host of riously convicted of passing mes- so much of the there. The organisation seeks to night The IHRC Abroad, in Muslim countries sins includ- sages to the followers of her most increase public awareness of the defines the counter revolutions against ing extra- nonsense written prominent client, Sheikh Omar the Arab Spring spawned a new d i t i n g about Islam and costs of the war and in doing so Abdel Rahman, and sentenced to wave of terror against Islamist restrain the government from prison where she spent eight groups, particularly in Egypt. In Muslims goes interfering in the internal affairs years before being released in Bahrain the crackdown on reform Asperger's beyond sad and into of foreign nations. Amongst the December 2013 on compassionate protestors continued despite s u f f e r e r activities it has instituted is Fast grounds following a diagnosis of pledges by the ruling monarchy Talha Ahsan to parody.Well done on Fridays, where members fast terminal breast cancer. to institute human rights and the United IHRC for sterling in solidarity with the remaining Umar political reforms, and the States, stripping inmates at Guantanamo Bay and Yaseen authorities there were Muslims of their work. My vote goes engage with the general public nominated for allow- citizenship, and most about western military interven- recently thinking to Bibi Netanyahu for tions in majority Muslim coun- about applying “anti- his Outstanding tries. terror” ASBO-style pun- The Islamophobia Research ishments for British Effort to demonise and Documentation Project Muslims who are merely Islam." (IRDP) at the University "suspected" of so-called terror- of California, ist activities. Berkeley, also won As well as a chief Lauren an award. IRDP Islamophobe award, an award Booth focuses on a sys- i n g was given to the worst tematic and securi- Islamophobe in each of five geo- e m p i r i c a l ty forces graphical areas in line with the approach to the to bulldoze votes received from the partici- the Netherlands' Freedom Party study of mosques and pating public. which continued to campaign on Islamophobia and desecrate copies The regional winners included its virulently anti-Muslim plat- its impact on the of the Holy Quran. Burmese freedom and democracy form and propagate fears of an American Muslim The world’s icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The 1991 impending Muslim takeover of c o m m u n i t y . IHRC wishes to thank this year's sponsors for the Islamophobia w o r s t Nobel Peace Prize winner was Europe. Headed by Prof Awards - may Allah swt bless their good work. Ameen. Islamophobe this nominated in the Asia and The clear winner in The year - nominees Australasia category for her con- Middle East and Africa was and winners are tinuing refusal to back citizenship Egypt's General Abdel Fattah el- decided by the calls by the country's oppressed Sisi, the army general who over- general pub- Rohingya Muslim minority. saw a bloody coup to remove and lic – was US The clear winner in the UK then ban Egypt’s first democrati- p re s i d e n t was a relative newcomer to the cally elected civilian government B a r a c k Islamophobia industry, Raheem and drag the Arab world's most Actor and Director Dr. Salman Sayyid Kassam. Kassam is a Zionist neo- populous nation back to military speaking on Melissa Melodee performing her poetry O b a m a . Danny John-Jules con who has quickly made him- rule. joined us on the night Islamophobia 10 IHRC IHRC partnership delivers Liberation School

Sukant Chandan (l) chaired the launch of Intifada Street by Muhammed Hamza (centre). Ibrahim Sincere (r) joined them.

ntifada Street is a political art project launched INTIFADA I a few years ago by Bradford-based political artist Mohammad Hamza. he Assata-Tupac up a space in which the par- Intifada Street is some of Liberation School ticipants, who are over- the most striking and (an initiative of the whelmingly from African STREETS inspiring agitational T budding Malcolm and Asian backgrounds, can political art that draws X Movement which learn about and discuss these upon themes and is launching in the summer issues, as there are few places struggles of Palestine, of 2015) approached IHRC to where this can be done and Black Liberation suggest that they and Soas2 no free spaces where this COMES Struggle, Che Guevara, partner up to deliver the only issue is addressed methodi- Kashmir and many free liberation school in the cally by a dedicated course. issues. So it was a real country. The organisations While attendance fluctu- honour for IHRC to host agreed and have ates, with the project’s first been in deliver- some stu- TO IHRC exhibition. ing a six-month dents leav- The exhibition was course that start- ing and ed in October newer stu- 2013. The course dents enter- is delivered by ing the Soas2's Dr course, the Mustafa Ali who initiative in Al-Quds Day 2013 is using Dr Neely general has Fuller's seminal been a suc- work on white cess and supremacy to teach students has allowed participants to about the manifestations of build a working and learning Standing up white supremacy and the relationship with other allies other areas in which this in our common struggle. oppression manifests in areas Next year’s course will be of activity including econom- starting in early October 2014 ics, education, entertainment, and might be held in a more against oppression labour, law, politics, religion, central London location so as sex, and war. to enable greater participa- The course takes place tion. Those interested in the every fortnight on Tuesday Liberation School should “The Quds Day is a universal evenings and is hosted at the contact Sukant Chandan on day. It is not an exclusive day for IHRC’s offices. It has opened [email protected] Quds itself. It is a day for the oppressed to rise and stand up against the arrogant.” - Imam Khomeini Thousands of people once again attended the annual Al- Have you been verbally abused, Quds Day march on 2 August harassed, discriminated against which ended with a rally outside the U.S Embassy, where or even violently attacked prominent speakers and because you are a Muslim? personalities condemned U.S- led support for the Zionist regime which has enabled Israel to commit numerous acts of Have you been mistreated by the terror in violation of The rabbis of Neturei Karta joined the demonstrators police or security services or are international law. Speakers included Sheikh you a victim of anti-terror laws? Bahmanpour from the Islamic at the hands of the Israeli Quds Day 2012) were played on Centre of England, Rabbi Weiss authorities. a big screen outside the U.S representing Neturei Karta, Les Khader Adnan, a member of Embassy. Please contact us Levidow representing Jews for the Palestinian Reconciliation Al Quds Day 2013 in London Boycotting Israeli Goods, John Committee, sent a video approached the issue of standing by emailing Rees representing Stop the War message in support of Al-Quds for the oppressed through the Coalition, and the spoken word Day explaining how he was prism of the Palestinian struggle [email protected] artist and poet Ibrahim Sincere. arrested by Israeli authorities and successfully united all Palestinian national football without charge, only being demonstrators around the issue or telephone 020 8904 4222 team player and hunger striker, released after a hunger strike of Palestine. The principles of Mahmoud Sarsak, who was lasting 66 days. Al-Quds Day remain as relevant imprisoned in Israel without Video messages from over 40 as ever and Al-Quds Day 2014 is All information given by you will be held trial or charge, joined the Palestinian detainees on hunger shaping up to be just as high in the strictest confidence and in demonstration and later spoke at strike that have been the focus of impact as previous years. accordance with data protection laws. the rally, giving a first-hand IHRC’s Palestinian Prisoners Sukant Chandan account of the torture he suffered Campaign (launched on Al- IHRC 11 Decoloniality Europe – Two years of launched on Saturday 15 Black Arts Movement and his now well-known March with the artist former Black Panther spoken word piece: by any moving forward Brother Hamza presenting leader Emory Douglas, means necessary; white his work with IHRC staff whose artwork especially supremacy. he Decoloniality member Sukant Chandan for the Black Panther The launch was a real Europe Network chairing. The conversation newspaper in the late celebration of struggles T developed further between the two ranged 1960s and 1970s helped to represented through the this year with the from Hamza's political educate a whole new artwork of Intifada Street, introduction at its 3rd and art inspiration, with generation of and the artwork on annual meeting of a model some of the style and revolutionary minded display as well as the on working practice. The approach being inspired young people. people at the launch and Network brings together by Brazilian-based artist The event saw spoken the discussions that took organisations from across Carlos Latuff, whose work word artist sister Sanaa place served as an the continent that work starting from the early Sultan reciting some of example of unity between within a similar framework Arzu Merali, Houria Bouteldja and 2000s will be familiar to Hamza's poetry as well as different trends, streams of tackling the legacy of Ramon Grosfoguel (pictured) opened the event with Sandew Hira. many if not most. her own. And the event of the Global and colonialism in various Also cited as an climaxed with brother ideological struggle forms. Organisations inspiration by Hamza was Ibrahim Sincere reciting against oppressors. involved range from grassroots local advocacy coming year, including on December 2013, there will be initiatives, to academic collaborating in campaigns similar events across Europe organsiations. in Portugal and the in 2015 too. Meeting for the first time Netherlands. The Decolonising the outside of Spain, this year in Examples of existing Mind workshops by Amsterdam through the collaboration include the Sandew Hira of IISR have facilitation of the rolling out of Genocide been increasingly popular International Institute of Memorial Day events in over the year, particularly in Scientific Research, the key Europe. Started in London London. Members of organisations of the network by IHRC in 2010, it is held on organisations within the including the organisers of the third Sunday of every network speak and teach at the meeting, Parti des January. In 2014, there were various events across the Indigenes de la Republique sister events held by network with a view to and Dialogo Global, organisations in the network sharing but also producing outlined some modalities of in Paris (PIR), Lisbon knowledge. Decoloniality working and future projects. (Plataforma Gueta) and Europe has continued its Existing and new Amsterdam (IISR). Using collaboration with the organisations within the this model, based on the ALICE project at the network also put forward PIR’s highly successful University of Coimbra. ideas for co-operation based community conference Irma Khan on existing work across the against Islamophobia in

AL QUDS DAY ANNUAL DEMONSTRATION & RALLY IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE

Friday 25th July 2014 "Our freedom is incomplete without Assemble at Duchess Street W1 the freedom of the at 3pm, Marching to the USA Palestinians" Embassy Grosvenor NELSON Square MANDELA

United for Palestine

Nearest tube stations: Regent’s Park (Bakerloo Line), Great Portland Street (Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan lines). Thousands flocked to London For more information please contact once more to protest for Palestine [email protected] or 020 8904 4222 12 IHRC Advocacy and legal: Genocide Memorial Day Another busy 2014 expands to new European year defending cities Muslim rights HRC Advocacy has had an Muslim community. ask for legal advice and support. exciting and busy year. We Our ‘Know Your Rights’ proj- Due to the availability of legal I have expanded the range of ect now includes workshops cov- aid we have always directed services we offer and we ering Stop and Search, Schedule them to appropriate law firms. are looking to expand further in 7 stops at airports, your rights at However with cuts in legal aid the coming years. demonstrations and immigra- there is less and less affordable We continue to provide sup- tion stops. We are working on quality legal advice available. port to individuals who have new workshops covering other IHRC Legal will provide high faced discrimination and hate important topics. The workshops quality legal advice in immigra- crime. Our work is vital in help- are a fun, interactive way of tion and employment matters. ing Muslims challenge learning about your rights and Our employment team will spe- Islamophobia and anti-Muslim how to protect them. The IHRC cialise in cases of racial and reli- hate crime. Our advocacy team team presents them to commu- gious discrimination. The service has also been busy writing brief- nity groups across the UK. Look will aim to support and ings and contacting MPs seeking out for a workshop near you, or empower people and will give to influence legislation. alternatively contact us to priority to securing peoples’ Our briefings on the arrange an event in your area. rights. Immigration Bill 2013-14 as well We are also producing a num- We have high hopes of as the amendments to Schedule 7 ber of new Know Your Rights expanding this project in the of the Terrorism Act 2000 were leaflets, which will all be avail- near future. This time next year I sent to MPs and Lords. We had a able as mobile phone apps. hope to be writing about expand- very positive response and we Our biggest project this year ing our legal work to include hope to continue seeking to has been setting up IHRC Legal. other areas of law, all with a view influence change on policies that For many years now we have to supporting Muslims get Nazim Ali, Massoud Shadjareh and have a negative impact on the had people approaching us to greater access to the legal system. Professor Ramon Grosfoguel

HRC's annual Genocide spoke on the relative sophistica- Empowering the community: Memorial Day saw a few tion of genocides in our times I exciting developments compared to the more brutal this year, especially as it and direct ones of the colonial was held in four cities: London, era. Amsterdam, Lisbon and Paris, Dr Sibtain Panjwani spoke reflecting the development of of the fact that genocides don’t this important event interna- develop overnight, they have KnowYour Rights tionally and how it has cap- innocuous beginnings. Tyrants ast summer I went for a they may be sexually harassed for a number of groups from a tured the imagination of wider do not hide their steps towards job interview at IHRC for walking home late at night. For broad cross section of society, both sections of people. genocide; however a more L the position of example they carry rape alarms Muslim and non-Muslim, includ- As IHRC’s Raza Kazim stat- sophisticated despot is aware Caseworker and PA to the and take precautions like walking ing attendants at the Decolonising ed during the introduction of that steps towards genocide Chair. in groups with friends and cross- the Mind workshops at IHRC, the GMD, the event is about oppos- cannot take place with the sup- During the interview I was ing the road when they see men. International Community Project ing and looking into ‘man’s port of many people hence they asked why I wanted to work at Similarly most non-white men in at the University of Westminster inhumanity to man’ irrespec- IHRC? I responded by expressing London know that there is a very Students’ Union, Refugee Youth, tive of who is the perpetrator of my long-standing admiration of real possibility that they may be the London Campaign against "IHRC rejects the work IHRC had done against targeted for harassment by a Police and State Violence the genocide or genocidal act(s) the implementation of the police force previously called (LCAPSV), Birmingham Ethnic and irrespective of the victim. the notion that Terrorism Act 2000 that served to institutionally racist. Yet – apart Minority Association (BEMA), IHRC rejects the notion that criminalise the Muslim commu- from knowledge of one’s rights – Shipman Youth Centre, the there is a hierarchy of victim- there is a nity and by extension wider soci- there is a lack of advice about prac- National Union of Students (NUS) hood depending on people’s hierarchy ety, as well as other so-called tical precautions that can be taken Black Students Campaign (BSC) background. counter-terrorism law/policy. amongst others. GMD is commemorated on of genocides In particular I talked about the 'If you At the same time we have the third Sunday of every pioneering work IHRC had done launched a smartphone app January to coincide with and therefore in producing leaflets detailing detailing our rights when stopped Israel’s genocidal act of people’s rights if stopped at challenge under Schedule 7 which is avail- ‘Operation Cast Lead’ during a hierarchy ports/borders under Schedule 7 able for both android and i-phone Dec/Jan 2008/2009 against the of the Act. police abuse devices. This makes accessing our Palestinian people of Gaza. of victims" Since non-white Muslims first rights both easier and more acces- It was wonderful to be able arrived in Britain they have been the reality is sible. to have speakers from across criminalised and subjected to tar- We have also been able to use the world including Tjanara create a mindset that facilitates geted questioning – including our training on demonstrations to Goreng Goreng who participat- people to conduct atrocities about their immigration status - as they may successfully train a set of volun- ed via internet from Australia. without feeling pain or empa- well as stop and search. Despite teers to steward the annual United Goreng is a leading rights thy. this fact most people do not know abuse you Friends and Families Campaign advocate for the indigenous A now frequent visiting what the law permits officers to do March to End Deaths in Custody. and what they are permitted to do Our role prevented any amplifica- people of Australia. Mrs friend of IHRC, Professor in response. For example thou- further' tion of the pain of families/friends Ramon Grofoguel, quoted from Goreng’s contribution focused sands of young Muslim men were that have lost loved ones at the on “how our struggle will over- Aime Cesaire’s work ‘Discourse racially profiled and selected for hands of the police. come apartheid and forced on Colonialism’ written in 1950: stop and search under Section 44 to reduce the likelihood of pro- Recently, due to the popularity assimilation since 1788 until “A civilisation that proves inca- of the Terrorism Act 2000. The longed harassment. If you chal- of our workshops we were asked now”. pable of solving the problems it police used it as an opportunity to lenge police abuse the reality is to collaborate with other groups in Political activist and rapper creates is a decadent civilisa- harass Muslim communities as they may abuse you further. This developing workshops and other Marcel Cartier recited one of his tion. A civilisation that chooses well as gather intelligence. One of is one of the many issues that I am training materials. We are pleased pieces written at the time of to close its eyes to its most cru- the key ways this was done was by passionate about resolving. to announce that we are working Operation Cast Lead, which cial problems is a stricken civil- gathering people’s names, Following the interview, it was with Stopwatch and other groups included the lyrics: “Is it a horri- isation. A civilisation that uses addresses and other personal a great honour to be invited to as part of a project entitled ble end, or an end to the horror? its principles for trickery and information. become a Know Your Rights ‘YSTOP’ aimed at getting young All out war, or a stop to the deceit is a dying civilisation.” Many of you reading this will Advocate – to develop a set of people to know their rights if slaughter? People in Palestine To highlight the profound have experienced stop and search workshops ensuring people are stopped and searched.. being oppressed, little kids being hypocrisy of the ‘colonial under the power. Yet few will prepared for the following: In the future, we are expand- bombed and maimed to death. matrix of power’ Prof know that although police are ing the range of Know Your Rights Yet they bulldoze houses with Grosfoguel explained that those entitled to ask for someone’s name 1. Stop and search and other pow- leaflets we offer and the content of families in them, that’s straight who seemed to celebrate the life and address, there is no require- ers commonly used by police our app. In addition with legal aid state sanctioned terrorism. and struggles of Nelson ment upon anyone who is 2. Schedule 7 Terrorism Act 2000: cuts starting to bite there is a need Where your land’s been stolen Mandela are the same people stopped and searched to provide stops at airports, seaports and bor- for more voluntary organisations their details under the power!And ders and identity crushed.” who have gone on to salute the to do the work that lawyers previ- even they are aware of their rights 3. Immigration checks and raids: ously did.As a result we are devel- Michel Warschawaski of The Zionist war criminal, Ariel many don’t know how they can be demands for immigration status oping training workshops on how Alternative Information Centre, Sharon. effectively invoked without 4. Demonstrations to make complaints to police and an anti-Zionist organisation in Sukant Chandan aggravating the situation. other statutory bodies. Jerusalem, Warschawaski Consider this. Most women Since starting my post last Taher Gulamhussein prepare for the possibility that Autumn we have run workshops IHRC 13 Cases we took on FREE ADVICE ver the last few months airport focussed exclusively on the country since Lee Rigby’s the Advocacy team has his south Asian ethnic origin. It murder in Woolwich has been SURGERIES O dealt with a variety of is clear from this incident that dealt with inexpertly and inef- cases ranging from his British passport was incon- ficiently by police forces, housing problems, benefits com- sequential if the traveller hap- which has led to the victims What issues will plaints and family disputes, to pened to be visibly Muslim. It is feeling helpless. IHRC hopes Islamic Human Closest tube station is experiences of Islamophobia in of concern to IHRC that there to continue to put pressure on Rights the surgeries Preston Road station schools, prisons, and local appears to be an inequality in these agencies to implement Commission cover? on the Metropolitan authorities, as well as serious the way in which British citi- strategies that deter potential offers free weekly line. hate crime incidents. zens are treated abroad, and that assailants, and can also ensure Information and Discrimination in those who are not white may when incidents occur that they How much will Advice surgeries The advice surgeries experience challenges to free are dealt with swiftly and in every it cost? schools movement. the best interests of the victims will provide advice Wednesdays. on: and society at large. Our professional The Advocacy department 'It is clear from Discrimination in caseworkers can All advice given at recently helped a family success- • Employment the number provide people the advice surgery is fully challenge a Manchester pri- social services • Benefits with information • Discrimination free of charge. mary school’s decision not to of calls the and advice on a permit their children to pray. • Complaints against department whole range of the Police If you are interested Over the summer holidays the In recent months the Advocacy issues. and would like to parents had actively encouraged receives that department has noted with If our caseworkers book an their two primary-aged children concern the number of cases Our service is appointment, then to maintain their daily prayers, the need for where Muslim parents have are unable to provide confidential, advice on any issue please call Islamic so much so that they expressed advocacy for had their children taken away independent and Human Rights the wish to continue to pray from them by social services. you will be Muslims’rights free. signposted as Commission on 0208 once the new term had started. Whilst we note local authori- 904 4222. Their respective form tutors in the UK is in ties’ duty to ensure the safety When are the appropriate. made unofficial arrangements to of children, it is disturbing to surgeries? Where are the Please note, as there accommodate this need. huge demand' hear some of the racist com- surgeries? are limited sessions However, once the headteacher ments made by social workers on offer, they will be caught wind of the situation she to these families, and the sub- available on a first put a stop to it, claiming that Muslim passengers have sequent insensitivity towards Every Wednesdays also experienced difficulties in 5pm-7pm come, first served staff were not available to super- parents who have requested The surgeries will be basis but we will try vise. She compromised by British airports, with Schedule that their children are placed held at Islamic 7 stops still prevalent. IHRC Appointments can be and offer you the allowing the children to be with family members, or at the Human Rights next available date if removed from school premises has campaigned extensively very least, a Muslim family. made and will be Commissions office against this piece of legisla- available in 20 minute they are fully during their lunch break. This One case involves the in Wembley: 202 booked. meant the parents had to collect tion, and has lobbied removal of a three-month old sessions. Preston Road, their children and drop them Parliament to restrict the pow- baby from her distraught par- Wembley HA9 8PA. back within 45 minutes. ers if not overturn them ents, and when they requested Pointing out these difficulties to entirely. One case suggests a she was placed with a Muslim the school, as well as the dis- systematic targeting of an indi- family they were accused of criminatory aspect of this provi- vidual, who has been stopped discriminating against ‘white sion was key.It was clear that the seven times over a period of British’ foster parents. It is policy of allowing the children six years. He has been sub- unfortunate that agencies to pray at home put Muslims at a jected to humiliating stops and which exist to serve the needs disadvantage. That prayers are invasive questioning relating of the family, cannot appreci- obligatory meant that the chil- to his religious practices. ate the desire of Muslim fami- dren had no choice but to leave Both cases are currently lies to ensure their children are the school, missing out on their under review by the relevant always placed in an environ- playtime with their classmates, a agencies. ment where their faith is prac- key part of their education and Hate crimes tised, and instead equate such development. We successfully a desire with racial prejudice. argued, on the parents’ behalf, This case is currently being that this amounted to religious contested and a complaint has discrimination. Following this, We have received several cases been lodged against the the school conceded and has of reported Islamophobic offending local authority. since made provisions to enable physical attacks. One such It is clear from the number the children to pray in an allo- incident was targeted at a of calls the department cated room while being super- Muslim woman in receives every day that the vised by teachers. Birmingham in a shopping need for advocacy for centre frequented by many Difficulties while Muslims’ rights in the UK is in ImprisonedImprisonned who visibly appeared to be huge demand. The diversity of fforor 11 11 years years travelling Muslims. She was punched in cases that come our way, and IfIf he he were were withoutwithout cchargeharge the head from behind by the multitude of ways in oorr trial trial another woman who shouted which Muslims experience We have dealt with several racist abuse at her before pro- discrimination is something cases where British Muslims ceeding to walk out of the we see increasing dramatically. youryour bbrotherrother shop. 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Bangladesh United Kingdom Campaigns: to neutralise Bangladesh’s opposi- tion has provoked massive political The past year saw civic values in disquiet and social unrest in the Bangladesh being assaulted under country. 5th May 2013 will go IHRC campaigned against the British Campaigns the authoritarian rule of the down in Bangladeshi history as one PM David Cameron's decision to order Awami League. Under the of the country’s bloodiest days as an investigation into the Muslim International Crimes Tribunal scores of protesters supporting the Brotherhood with the intention of dis- (ICT), set up in 2010, the ruling Jamaat were killed by police forces. covering the group’s alleged links to ter- Awami League convicted many IHRC wrote several alerts rorism. Following violent incidents in report Jamaat-e-Islaami leaders charged protesting against the blatantly Egypt, on 1 April 2014, the British PM with war crimes committed during unjust ICT and unfair detention of ordered an investigation into the Muslim the 1971 war. apparently innocent civilians. Brotherhood to determine whether or The ICT has been condemned IHRC will keep a close eye on the not the group was responsible for terror- by human rights organisations and political situation in Bangladesh ist activities and whether it is using opposition groups for failing to and report to campaigners in the Britain as a base from which to plan meet international standards of jus- future. them. Many of the group's leaders fled to tice and for allegedly being used as Britain after a brutal crackdown was a tool to weaken political rivals. Bulgaria launched against them by Egyptian Many top leaders of the Jamaat, authorities in the summer of 2013. IHRC including Ghulam Azam, Maulana believes that the PM's decision repre- Motiur Rahman Nizami and IHRC pressurised the Bulgarian sents direct support for the military Delwaar Hussein Sayadee have government to take action against coup. Hence we urged campaigners to been sentenced to death or prison. the Islamophobic attack on the his- write letters to the PM asking him to can- One former leader, Abdul Kader toric mosque of Plovdiv by around cel the review and instead take diplo- Mullah, was hanged in December 3000 protesters on 14th of February matic action against the current rulers for 2013. Their only ‘crime’ was their 2014. IHRC urged campaigners to their part in overthrowing a democrati- open opposition of the separation write letters to the Bulgarian gov- cally elected government and bringing of East and West Pakistan into ernment requesting that it protects back military rule. independent states. the rights of Bulgarian Muslims Faiza Haq Motiur Nizami after sentencing in Bangladesh Not surprisingly the campaign and their religious symbols.

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Sometimes their pack- P r i s o n e r s London Victoria. It is here • Over 50% of the worlds Medjoul aging states "Grown by Palestinian T Campaign was that we have been gather- dates are produced in Israel. The Israelis prefer to employ chil- Farmers" - this refers to Palestinian launched on Al ing for the past two years • 60% of Israeli dates are grown on dren – even issuing them official 'slave' labourers found on Israeli Quds-Day 2012 by IHRC to protest the company’s illegal settlement plantations in the work permits, as they can climb trees plantations. and Innovative Minds. role in the torture and Jordan Valley. faster, work for less and it’s easier to Since then we have held imprisonment of inno- • Israeli profits from dates in cheat and humiliate them. Out of Boycott, Divest, Sanctions fortnightly vigils for cent civilians, and by 2011=$265 million and exports were desperate poverty Palestinian fami- Call Palestinians imprisoned extension its complicity up by 20% in 2012. lies are forced to take their children by the state of Israel. in propping up an illegit- • If you buy a Medjoul date, there’s a out of school and hand them over to More often than not these imate regime. G4S is con- strong possibility that it is from an ille- the settlers to work for a pittance. prisoners are detained on tracted to run the jails by gal settlement - grown on stolen land. In 2005 Palestinian civil society Guilty Companies organisations initiated a call for peo- spurious charges and the Israeli state. Settlements without trial. However, the company ple of conscience around the world Inmates are held in also receives an income to Boycott, Divest and Sanction infamous prisons such as generated by forcing Hadiklaim, the Israeli Date Israel until it complies with interna- the children’s unit at Al- inmates to pay for their Israeli settlements built on stolen Growers Cooperative, which tional law and Palestinian rights. The Jalame, where solitary own imprisonment. Palestinian land have been ruled illegal includes illegal settler plantations call was endorsed by over 170 confinement is the norm, Food, clothing and by the International Court of Justice. in the Jordan Valley, sells 70% of all Palestinian organisations represent- and the children are held hygiene products must Nearly half of the settlements in the Israeli dates. Its brand names ing all aspects of society including in tiny windowless cells all be purchased from the Jordan Valley grow dates, its their most include Jordan River, King farmers. without mattresses to prison’s shop, which, at profitable crop, and contributes signifi- Solomon, Tamara Barhi Dates, Plea From Palestine sleep on. Many prisoners Al Jalame, costs 125 cantly to their economic viability.If you Desert Diamond, Rapunzel, are also subjected to tor- Euros per month. oppose the settlements target their Bomaja, Shams and Delilah. They ture and their families IHRC and Innovative dates. also supply Israeli dates to super- Activists visiting the Palestinian harassed and intimidat- Minds continue to Exploitation markets who market them under ed. demand the immediate their own brand. These include village of Fasayl in the Jordan Valley HaSharon prison is release of all Palestinian Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, discovered that villagers are slowly another notorious centre political prisoners and Tesco, Asda and Waitrose. being forced off their land by the where female prisoners that G4S end all contracts Picking of the dates is hard work, Sometimes they are labelled “pro- Israeli army for settlement expan- face beatings, verbal with Israel as a matter of Israeli settlers bring in low payed duced in the West Bank”, remem- sion. The only work left open to abuse, sexual harass- urgency. The fortnightly Palestinian labourers to do this back ber these are not Palestinian dates. them is to on Israeli settlements. The ment, and sexual violence vigils demonstrate to G4S breaking work. During the pruning Hadiklaim have also sold South Palestinians whose land had been at the hands of the Israeli and Israel that their season, workers are dropped on the African dates with profits going to stolen and were forced to work for guards. The cells are actions will not be over- date palm trees by a hoisting crane at Israel, but due to the boycott their Agrexco (including two children overcrowded and infest- looked. At the same time 5am, left perched on palms that soar South African partner Karsten under the age of 12), in order to feed ed with rodents and cock- they help to build net- to heights of 12 metres – equivalent Farms have now cut ties and their families had a message for the roaches. Basic hygiene is works of solidarity with to a four storey building, left there vowed never to partner with any activists, a plea for anyone who non-existent in the facili- the prisoners and the swaying in the wind for up to 8 hours Israeli entity complicit in the occu- would listen: take action against the ty, with the women Palestinian people. Please without even a toilet break. With no pation. companies that support Israeli denied access to toilet visit www.inminds.co.uk means to come down until the crane Mehadrin, Israel's largest fresh apartheid. What excuse is left for us facilities and sanitary /caged for more informa- returns at the end of the day, the produce exporter, last year boasted not to boycott Israel? pads when menstruating. tion on how to get workers cling to the tree with one of doubling its Medjoul date sales These prisons are just involved. arm and work with the other to meet citing strong demand in Ramadan! • Further Information: www.inminds.com/boycott-israeli- two of many run by G4S, Lena Mohamed their quota. If they fall behind they Their dates have the brand names the private security firm will lose their jobs. Premium Medjoul, Fancy Medjoul, dates.php %2<&277,65$(/,'$7(6 :::,10,1'6&20%2<&277,65$(/,'$7(63+3

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We have a wide range of There is something for everyone, from books on gifts including artwork – Islam, human rights and justice, books for children from prints, limited edition and teenagers, to handicrafts and artwork. canvases to original artwork by up and coming artists and photographers, Best of all, all profits from the as well as a variety of objet sales go to IHRCT and help d’art from around the world. These pieces range in price fund the work that we do. from the extremely reasonable like our block If you live in or near London, UK you can always pop in printed prayer mats, or to our store. Swedish wood with mother We are open from 9am – 5 pm of pearl decorative plates Monday to Friday and 10am – 6 pm on Saturdays. and boxes to our original design, hand painted Our address is 202 Preston Road, Wembley, HA9 8PA (nearest tube Preston Road, Metropolitan Line). Telephone 020 8799 4455 enamel on copper plates and original paintings. See you soon in-store or on-line, insha Allah. www.mdukmedia.com [email protected] Our clients include: Victoria House, BBC, Bestway, British Heart Foundation, DTI, Harrods, Islamic Bank of Britain, Islamic Relief, Jones Lang LaSalle, MCB, NHS, Quit To donate to text IHRC11 with either IHRCT £1, £5, £10, £20 to 70070 Support Justice, Help IHRC IHRC has grown and your financial If you wish to donate There are many developed through the assistance. solely to IHRC’s worthy causes, and we May Allah s.w.t. reward generous donations of Please help us in charitable work, request that you all your efforts in this its supporters without whatever way you can please complete the remember IHRC’s whom, we could not – a small monthly IHRC Trust form work when donating, world and the next. have survived. Please contribution is as (green form). in the best way that Ameen. remember us this year valuable as a generous Otherwise please fill you can. with your du’a and one-off donation. in this form (red form). Supporters of IHRC get free copies Account number: Signature(s): of IHRC reports (those paying ______concessionary rates get a selection) ______and reduced rates on other items. Address: ______Concessionary supporters are ______Date: ______encouraged to donate £5 a month. ______Without this type of regular support – Please return this form to us at: however small, IHRC would not be To: The Manager able to operate. Islamic Human Rights Commission (name and address of your bank) PO Box 598, Wembley, HA9 7XH, ______Title: ______United Kingdom. ______First Name: ______Islamic Human Rights Commission Sort Code: ______is a not for profit company. IHRC is a ______company limited by guarantee. ______Company No: 04716690 Please pay (tick choice): Address: J £8 / month (students/ unwaged) ______J £15 / month ______J £25 / month ______J £40 / month ONE OFF DONATION FORM ______J £60 / month Please find enclosed a donation of J Other (please specify) £ £______Post Code: ______Telephone: ______J Zakat J Sadaqah Fax: ______Please state amount in words J I would like a receipt E-mail: ______¢ ______Name: ______Contacting you by e-mail or fax may save IHRC money. If you would prefer To the credit of Address: ______not to be contacted this way please tick Islamic Human Rights Commission ______here J Ltd. a/c no: 06759807, Sort Code ______[12-24-81] at: Bank of Scotland, 600 • E [email protected] STANDING ORDER BANKERS FORM Gorgie Road, Edinburgh, EH11 3XP, ______Name(s) of the account holder(s) Telephone: ______• W www.ihrc.org Upon receipt of this order and E-mail: ______subsequently the same amount on • Twitter @ihrc ______this first day of each month until further ______Please make all cheques payable to notice, debit my / our account. Islamic Human Rights Commission • IHRC.TV