ISIS BRIDE SHAMIMA BEGUM IS BRITISH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Bangladesh, Boris Johnson, brainwashing, Brexit, british media, citizenship, counterterrorism, daesh, eurocentric, Eurocentrism, featured, grooming, institutional racism, iraq, Iraq War, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, prevent, radicalization, sajid david, Saudi Arabia, scaremongering, Shamima Begum, Syria, tabloid, terrorism, theresa may, xenophobia, Yemen.

By Jonathan Lee

Another day, another outrage. This time it’s about one-time ‘ISIS bride’ Shamima Begum, a 20-year-old girl from Bethnal Green who has finally had her right to return home recognised, after leaving the UK in 2014 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.

Begum had her citizenship stripped from her in February 2019 by the Home Office. This was declared legal on account of her being a Bangladeshi dual national, meaning she would not be made stateless. However, when she was asked by the BBC, she said she did not have a Bangladeshi passport and had never been to the country. Regardless of the decision against her, her son was a British citizen and should have been allowed to return. Perhaps if he had been allowed to he might have survived. As it was he died of pneumonia in a refugee camp in Northern Syria, a month after his mother had her citizenship revoked. You have to wonder if this all would have happened had she been white?Continue Reading

SHAMIMA BEGUM IS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETAL FAILURE: WE MUST BRING HER HOME AND LEARN

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged brainwashing, british media, citizenship, counterterrorism, daesh, eurocentric, Eurocentrism, featured, grooming, institutional racism, iraq, Iraq War, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, prevent, radicalization, sajid david, Saudi Arabia, scaremongering, Shamima Begum, Syria, terrorism, xenophobia, Yemen.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

The British press has been in a frenzy recently over nineteen-year-old Shamima Begum and her desire to return to the UK from the refugee camp in Syria where she currently resides. There are probably very few people in the UK who are unaware that Shamima travelled from the UK to ISIS territory in Syria at the age of fifteen, where she married an ISIS militant, conceived and lost two children before giving birth to a third (who also passed away) in the refugee camp in Syria she currently calls home.Continue Reading

ISLAM: THE NEW VIETNAM WAR SYNDROME

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #ParisAttacks, 9/11, Afghanistan, Charles Kurzman, David Schanzer, defence, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Investigatory Powers Bill, iraq, Islam, Islamaphobia, jihad, media, media representation, military, paris, Patriot Act, terror, terrorism, terrorist, US, Vietnam, war.

by Gunnar Eigener

“Since the news, little kids haven’t played outside, as if their moms are afraid someone might snatch them out of their yards and send them off to war.”
Kimberly Willis Holt, ‘When Zachary Beaver Came To Town’

In the early hours of 26^th July, Satoshi Uematsu drove to a home for the disabled where he had previously worked and stabbed 19 residents to death and injured 26. Shortly before handing himself in, he tweeted “May there be peace in the world…Beautiful Japan!!!!” Once in custody, he said that ‘it is better that disabled people disappear’. Barely a week later and at a rally Donald Trump claimed to have seen video footage of $400 million being transferred to Iran by the US government as well as recounting the time he saw Muslims celebrating the devastation of 9/11. One of these stories received little attention while the other gathered headlines.

INTERPRETATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISLAM

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Africa, apostasy, asia, civil liberties, female genital mutilation, homophobia, homosexuality, human rights, Iran, Islam, Islamaphobia, malaysia, middle east, Najib Razak, National Security Act, Pakistan, politics, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an, Raif Badawi, Recep Erdogan, religion, Reza Aslan, Saudi Arabia, sexism, terrorism, Tunisia, turkey, women.

by Faizal Nor Izham

Trigger warnings: Female Genital Mutilation, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Torture

How does Islam actually fare in terms of human rights, and is it really any different from any other religion? The “religion of peace” has been getting a poor reputation in Western media over the issue for decades, with human rights abuses in Muslim countries often stretching from the major to the mundane.

Female genital mutilation, the stoning of homosexuals to death, the subjugation of women – the list goes on and on. Apostasy is frequently met with the death sentence in conservative states such as Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, individual liberties in these countries, such as speaking up against the state, are frequently curtailed on the pretext of actually insulting the religion itself. Just ask Raif Badawi, the Saudi activist and blogger who dared to criticize the Saudi regime and was sentenced up to 1,000 lashes from the theocratic state for his troubles.

LICENCE TO HATE: POST-BREXIT BRITAIN

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, conservative party, EU, EU referendum, Europe, European Championship, european union, Islam, Islamaphobia, jeremy corbyn, labour party, Michael Gove, multiculturalism, Muslims, neoliberalism, Poland, racism, referendum, Sima Kotecha, uk politics, xenophobia.

by Faizal Nor Izham

Content warnings: xenophobia, racism, racial slurs

You’d think that after more than three decades of multiculturalism in the UK, racism should have, more or less, become a thing of the past. Yet bigotry has decided to rear its ugly head once more after the recent EU referendum, with many of those who voted for Brexit, in particular those from a working class background, feeling the result has given them the right, and indeed social acceptance, to begin verbally chasing out migrants, in some kind of vague collective bid to “get [their] country back”.

MAYOR SADIQ KHAN: LONDON’S MUSLIM FACE OF TOLERANCE

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Edward Said, elections, Islam, Islamaphobia, london, london mayor, mayor, media, media representation, Muslim, muslim politicians, racism, sadiq khan, uk, uk politics, Western media, Zac Goldsmith.

by Faizal Nor Izham

It’s been a pretty rough decade or so for Muslims. Since 9/11, negative images of the Islamic world have been relentlessly smeared all over the Western media, in a manner often mirroring the Orientalist perspective of Arabs as described by the historical anthropologist Edward Said. Ever since the Europeans first encountered Arabs during the time of the Crusades, Middle Easterners have been perpetually stereotyped as the social “Other”, known to act and appear completely differently from Westerners. Furthermore, the otherwise diverse Islamic world is frequently reduced to exclusively “exotic” stereotypes such as bearded mullahs, shady sheikhs in their groups of concubines, terrorists, Bedouin, belly dancers and harem maidens. Meanwhile, Muslim women are constantly portrayed as quiet, modest and uneducated, covered from head to toe and traveling several paces behind domineering males.

PETER TATCHELL, LEFT UNITY AND OTHER DINOSAURS

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged censorship, female eunuch, feminism, germaine greer, Islamaphobia, julie bindel, LGBT+, LGBTQIA+, McCarthy, mccarthyism, no platform, Peter Tatchell, prevent, progressive politics, sectarian, spiked, Stonewall, trans.

by Robyn Banks

Once upon a time, there was a period in history when everyone on the left was in agreement. In this time of solidarity many campaigns were fought and won and nobody within the movement felt excluded. The boundaries of race, gender and class were broken down, sectarianism was a distant memory and everybody held hands and formed the party of the glorious left.

#STANDWITHJNU AND ITS RIPPLE EFFECTS

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged #standwithJNU, academia, Afzal Guru, Arnab Goswami, BJP, Chennai, Dalit, Delhi, fascism, free speech, freedom, Gandhi, humanities, India, international, Islamaphobia, Jadavpur, Jawaharlal Nehru, JNU, JU, Kanhaiya Kumar, Kashmir, Kolkata, Modi, NAAC, nationalism, Noam Chomsky, persecution, politics, protest, resistance, right wing, solidarity, student, student movement, university.

by Kunal Chattopadhyay

Seldom has an incident in an Indian University received so much international coverage and solidarity as the ongoing confrontation in Jawaharlal Nehru University. 450 scholars, among who were names like Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, as well as JNU alumni, signed a statement. 358 academics from Universities across California issued a letter in which they condemned the harassment of students for their political beliefs. The letter called the police crackdown on the students an “alibi for the incursion of an authoritarian regime onto the university campus”. Oxford University and the University of Chicago among others have sent in their support. Within India, solidarity actions developed in Delhi, Chennai, and various academic institutions, including notably Jadavpur University in Kolkata. And there have also been massive, unrelenting state and rightwing attacks, including physical violence.Continue Reading

THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD IS SHORT

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #DontBombSyria, #ParisAttacks, aistrikes, Ankara, army, Bashar al-Assad, Beirut, bombing, daesh, Daniel Heath Justice, Instanbul, IS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Maiduguri, media, media bias, memory, middle east, MSM, nation, nonviolence, politics, privilege, propaganda, racism, refugee crisis, selective memory, Syria, terrorism, violence, West.

by Ellen Musgrove

Cherokee writer and academic Daniel Heath Justice writes in The Kynship Chronicles that ‘the memory of the world is short, and death rides hard in the forgetting.’ Being indigenous and queer, Justice knows very well the selective amnesia of the nation-state, and the resistance that demands.

Such an introduction may seem obscure, but this perceived obscurity demonstrates the problem I want to discuss. The same nation-state amnesia is imbricated in “western” society’s selective mourning of recent terror attacks, the current refugee crisis, and now renewed military intervention.

LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN PARIS, NOT SHOUT

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #ParisAttacks, 9/11, daesh, facebook, fear, François Hollande, ISIS, Islamaphobia, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, paris, politics, racism, Syria, terrorism, war.

by Josh Wilson

I wrote an article a few weeks ago about how there is no chance for anyone to win outright in Syria. Since that article the tragic events in Paris have taken place and leaders from around the world alongside ordinary citizens have reacted to the news. As with all heartbreaking events, reactions have been fuelled by emotion, with the debate surrounding tricolore Facebook photo becoming a heated element of reaction to the atrocity. Many took up the option offered by Facebook to drape the French flag over their profile picture. I do have my reservations about this, mostly regarding Facebook picking and choosing which tragedies to offer this show of solidarity for. However, in a time of grief and high emotion I think this is a debate best left for another time.

Islamaphobia

ISIS BRIDE SHAMIMA BEGUM IS BRITISH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

SHAMIMA BEGUM IS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETAL FAILURE: WE MUST BRING HER HOME AND LEARN

ISLAM: THE NEW VIETNAM WAR SYNDROME

INTERPRETATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISLAM

LICENCE TO HATE: POST-BREXIT BRITAIN

MAYOR SADIQ KHAN: LONDON’S MUSLIM FACE OF TOLERANCE

PETER TATCHELL, LEFT UNITY AND OTHER DINOSAURS

#STANDWITHJNU AND ITS RIPPLE EFFECTS

THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD IS SHORT

LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN PARIS, NOT SHOUT

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