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

UNITED IN THE FACE OF CRISIS – THE STUDENT LEFT NETWORK

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged campaigning, casualisation, climate change, corporate, democracy, education, far right, featured, fossil fuel divestment, higher education, individualism, inequality, Labour Students, left, living wage, marketisation, mental health, NUS, NUS turnaround, prevent, profiteering, rent strike, representation, social justice, student activists, student debt, student left network, students' unions, uk, universities.

By Bradley Allsop

Make no mistake – higher education in the UK is in crisis. After decades of uncertain policy and three successive Tory-led governments with a clear desire to marketise and corporatise our campuses, we’re left with a generation burdened with debt, with an explosion in mental health issues among students, with universities bereft of democracy and increasingly fuelled by precarious labour, with Students’ Unions that are often little more than marketing arms of their universities, and with continuing inequalities in educational attainment. The passionate learning, debate and inquiry that should be the soul of education has become little more than a thin veneer pasted over profiteering and corporate-style expansion.

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE UK – ‘TOMMY ROBINSON’ IS A SYMPTOM NOT THE PROBLEM

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 2016 London Mayoral Elections, Akala, Alex Jones, alt-right, anti racism, anti-fascism, Baroness Warso, bbc, bigotry, Boris Johnson, British Muslims, child abuse, contempt of court, court system, demonstration, Donald Trump, EDL, extremism, Ezra Levant, far right, fascism, featured, fox news, freedom of speech, Geert Wilders, hatred, islamophobia, Katy Hopkins, law, LBC, london, Matthew d'Ancona, Nazir Afzal, Nigel Farage, Owen Jones, prevent, racism, Raheem Kassam, Richard Price, sadiq khan, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Steve Bannon, tommy robinson, Tories, Tory Islamophobia, Tory racism, war on terror.

by Scott McLaughlan

Content warning: mentions Islamophobia, racism, paedophilia, sexual abuse, fascism

The sentencing in May this year of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (stage name ‘Tommy Robinson’) to 13 months for contempt of court has caused quite a reaction from his fellows on the far right. On Saturday 9th June, an estimated 15,000 people turned out for a mass rally in London in support of Yaxley-Lennon, Trump and ‘free speech’. The sinister focal point of the rally was to link rape and child sexual exploitation with migration and Islam.

THE UCU STRIKE – A GUIDE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #ucustrike, academic staff, featured, higher education, international students, lecturers, NUS, pensions, postgraduate tutors, prevent, solidarity, strike, student support, students, teaching, tuition fees, UCU, universities, Universities UK, USS, workers rights.

By Ana Oppenheim, NUS International Students’ Campaign

What is happening?
Academic staff at over 60 universities will be going on strike for 14 working days, starting from Thursday February 22. This means many lectures will be cancelled – but even when they are not, we are encouraging students in universities that are on strike to not go to class and, if possible, not enter university buildings at all during strike days.
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WHY I AM STRIKING

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #ucustrike, academic staff, consumerism, featured, higher education, lecturers, pensions, postgraduate tutors, prevent, solidarity, strike, student support, students, teaching, tuition fees, UCU, universities, USS, workers rights.

by Alex Powell

As a Graduate Teaching Fellow, I hold a position that straddles the roles of student and staff, giving me a slightly unusual perspective on the UCU strike action that begins today. It is from this conflicted, complex and, at times like these, compromised position that I wish to lay out why I will be standing with colleagues from 61 other institutions around the country in joining the strike action.

UNDERSTANDING PREVENT REFERRALS: YOUNG PEOPLE, ISLAMISM AND EDUCATION

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged Adam Deem, Counter Terrorism, extremism, government, Home Office, ideology, Islamism, islamophobia, prevent, profiling, Quilliam Foundation, racism, radicalisation, reports, statistics, students, terrorism, training, xenophobia.

By Richard McNeil-Willson

At the start of November 2017, the UK Home Office released its official figures for referrals to the Prevent Counter-terror Programme for the 2015-2016 period. It showed that, of the 7,631 of all referrals, ‘Islamist extremism’ represented the greatest threat, young people were the most vulnerable to radicalisation, and authorities only needed to respond to a minority of cases. But there are problems with this reading, which are shown by exploring the nature of referrals and the political context in which they sit.Continue Reading

A RAY OF HOPE – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #5

Posted on May 28, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #GE2017, #studentsnotsuspects, Brexit, Brighton, brighton pavilion, Bristol, Bristol West, caroline lucas, coalition, david cameron, debt cancellation, environment, environmental policy, environmental protections, Europe, fascism, Free Education, general election, Green Guarantee, Green Party, Hard Brexit, higher education, Higher Education and Research Act, hope, Isle of Wight, Labour, manifesto, molly scott cato, MPs, Plastic Returns Deposit, politics, prevent, recycling, Scandinavia, snap election, student debt, student loans, student politics, student vote, students, Students and the Election, theresa may, Tories, tuition fees, UEA, UEA Young Greens, universities, Vix Lowthion, voters, voting, xenophobia, Young Greens.

by the UEA Young Greens

In the midst of multiple crises faced by students, universities and schools, the outcome of the snap general election will be a major indicator of the future of the UK education sector. Each week until the vote we are featuring perspectives from our regular contributors and guests on what the election could mean for students.

On June the 8th the country will head to the polls for Mrs May’s snap election. This election has been called because, in a remarkable display of hubris, May and her Tory cohort expect to win a huge majority so she can continue to pursue her campaign of cuts whilst also pushing for a Hard Brexit. If they’re right, the future looks rather grim.

NUS WOMEN’S CONFERENCE, STUDENT DEPORTATION AND MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged abortion, abuse, BME, chartered flight, chennan fei, conference, deportation, disabled students campaigns, gendered islamaphobia, ghana, Hareem Ghani, kelechi, LGSM, malia bouattia, marginalisation, MFJ, migrant rights, Movement for Justice, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, NUS, nus black students, nus womens conference, organise, prevent, prevent strategy, racism, reproductive justice, self organisation, solidarity, stanstead, student, student movement, women, xenophobia, yarls wood detention centre.

by Cherry Somersby

Content warning: article mentions physical and emotional abuse, abortion, xenophobia, gendered Islamophobia, deportation

Last week, over a hundred women+ students travelled from student unions all over the country to NUS Women’s Conference to elect a new NUS Women’s Officer, and set the direction for the NUS Women’s Campaign for the incoming year. I attended conference as a delegate from UEASU, and sat down with NUS President Malia Bouattia, and NUS Women’s Officer Hareem Ghani after having won her re-election.

This article provides an account of key events at Women’s conference, including motions passed and issues raised at plenaries and workshops throughout conference. I have also published comments given by both Malia and Hareem in response to the questions I asked about NUS, Women’s Conference, and the Women’s Campaign in the context of student deportations and migrants’ rights campaigns.Continue Reading

THE INHERENTLY RADICAL IDENTITY OF MULTICULTURALISM

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arts, assimilation, BAME, barack obama, Beyonce, BME, daily mail, discourse, discrimination, Donald Trump, ethnic, fetish, identity, Ijeoma Umebinyuo, institutional racism, integration, Islam, israel, JayZ, Labour, malia bouattia, Mayor of London, minorities, multiulturalism, Muslims for Trump, NUS, oppression, palestine, Piers Morgan, politics, prevent, race, racism, radical, religion, sadiq khan, sensationalism, student politics, students, West, white privilege, Zac Goldsmith.

by Julian Canlas

‘You are not alive to please the aesthetic of colonized eyes’
– Ijeoma Umebinyuo

An interesting thing happens when fully-assimilated BME in the West engage in politics, whilst retaining and proudly displaying their multicultural and racial identities as minorities—they become characterised as ‘radical’ and disruptive to the everyday function of society. Here are examples of how various politicking non-white figures have been portrayed:

Prior to Sadiq Khan becoming mayor of London on May 2016, Khan suffered from smear attacks by Zac Goldsmith. Goldsmith’s attacks included ‘Sadiq Khan won’t stand up for London’s Tamil community’ and ‘his party supports a wealth tax on family jewellery,’ with the latter based upon the uncomfortable, racist assumption that this taxation is a defining political issue for South Asians. Goldsmith also branded Khan as a ‘radical,’ belonging to ‘a Labour party that thinks terrorists is its friends’.
The newly-elected first Black Muslim president of the NUS, Malia Bouattia, depicted as an ISIS supporter for having been against a 2011 motion condemning ISIS, because of its apparent wording that demonises all Muslims, despite later supporting a revised version condemning ISIS and Islamophobia. She has also been criticised as anti-Semitic despite publicly declaring her stance as anti-Zionist due to Israel’s continued violation of human rights by its continued military occupation of Palestine.

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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

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE UK – ‘TOMMY ROBINSON’ IS A SYMPTOM NOT THE PROBLEM

THE UCU STRIKE – A GUIDE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

WHY I AM STRIKING

UNDERSTANDING PREVENT REFERRALS: YOUNG PEOPLE, ISLAMISM AND EDUCATION

A RAY OF HOPE – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #5

NUS WOMEN’S CONFERENCE, STUDENT DEPORTATION AND MIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

THE INHERENTLY RADICAL IDENTITY OF MULTICULTURALISM

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