Wasiq Wasiq, at The Blogs

Nov 18, 2021, 3:57 PM

Islamophobia Awareness Month isn’t for every Muslim

A quran (Photo by Abdullah Faraz on Unsplash)

We are at the end of Islamophobia Awareness Month (IAM) – an opportunity to deconstruct and challenge negative stereotypes. But dig deeper and you find that unless you’re the right kind of Muslim, this isn’t a month for you. IAM was set up in 2012...

Oct 28, 2021, 5:35 PM

The triple threat of communalism, clericalism and caliphism

Quran (Photo by Masjid Pogung Dalangan on Unsplash)

A new book written by adjunct professor at the Center for Jewish Civilisation based in Georgetown University, Ed Husain: Among the Mosques, is an ethnographic exploration of mosques and Muslim communities in the United Kingdom. Husain travels up and down the country, spending time in...

Oct 13, 2021, 1:37 PM

Slip-roads to antisemitism

Protesters with a sign opposing antisemitism (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Sipa via Jewish News)

Antisemitism remains an important issue for Jewish communities, the government and policy makers alike. Indeed, such is the severity that Labour – the official party of opposition – was found to have been institutionally antisemitic. In the recent Labour conference, delegates voted overwhelmingly (73%) to...

Sep 28, 2021, 2:32 PM

Why Afghanistan will remain a hotspot for Islamist terrorism

Kabul, Afghanistan. 22nd Aug, 2021. Taliban fighters patrol in the streets of a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, August. 22, 2021. Photo by Bashir Darwish/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News - via Jewish News

It has been four weeks since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. As much of a botched exit that was, the Taliban’s entry back into leadership positions in the region was not. Indeed, the takeover just goes to show how organized and determined the...

Sep 17, 2021, 3:00 PM

The pitfalls of defining ‘Islamophobia’

Worrying times: A Worcestershire mosque daubed with a swastika (Jewish News)

Twenty years on from the war on terror, Muslim communities in the west have faced a difficult time through no fault of their own. The actions of a minority of Islamist terrorists has meant that many Muslims have been tarnished as either terrorists or sympathetic...

Aug 27, 2021, 1:49 PM

What do British Muslims really think of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan?

The speed of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has been extraordinary. No serious analyst could have predicted it. Yet, with the same speed, here in the UK, we encounter quotes from British so-called Muslim voices of authority sympathetic – or even in support – of the...

Aug 4, 2020, 6:21 PM

Muslim antisemitism – It’s time to face reality

Muslim worshippers during prayer. (Photo by Levi Clancy on Unsplash via Jewish News)

The think-tank the Henry Jackson Society has just published a report titled ‘Muslim Anti-Semitism In Contemporary Great Britain’. The author, Dr Rakib Ehsan a Muslim himself, describes this report and more importantly, the polling that makes up the body of the report as: “one of...

About Me

Wasiq is an academic and trustee for the organisation Muslims Against Antisemitism (MAAS). He specialises in the areas of academia, law and terrorism.