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Identity: Diaspora

A collection of 10 posts

No Solutions to British Muslim Problems without Mutual Respect

Identity: Diaspora

No Solutions to British Muslim Problems without Mutual Respect

From the archive (2015): answering Quilliam — no solutions without mutual respect; partnership with communities’ own institutions, not suspicion.

Identity: Diaspora

What Happened to Canada?

From the archive (2012): Chris Hedges asks what happened to Canada — a change that was not a mood but policy moving through institutions.

Identity: Diaspora

Muslim Identity in Britain: Sadiq Khan MP on British Museum Hajj Exhibition

adapted from London Evening Standard, January 26, 2012 While the capital is home to an estimated 40 per cent of the UK’s Muslim population, there are still many mysteries surrounding the faith that I follow. For I was born and raised a London Muslim. I attended mosques and madrassas

Identity: Diaspora

Muslim Engagement at the Community Level in UK

From the archive (2011): an East London lament about declining community influence — and the plain answer: influence is organised, not lamented into existence.

Identity: Diaspora

The Question of Islam and Democracy

Dr. Mohamed Elmasry's Arab Spring-era essay on Islam and democracy — reread in 2026, when the question has become whether communities can build the institutions democracy requires.

Identity: Diaspora

The Brutal Killing of Aqsa Parvez

From the archive (2007): on the killing of Aqsa Parvez — precision about the crime, honesty about the community questions, both at once.

Institutions: Governance

The history at the end of history

From the archive (2007): Fukuyama revisiting the end-of-history thesis — public self-correction by a major thinker, landing on the institutional question this site now works on.

Women in Post-war Iraq

From the archive (2006): women’s lives in post-invasion Iraq — the measure of any intervention is what daily life becomes, and that measure is institutional.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Profiling of the sublime kind !

From the archive (2002): Duke declines Aga Khan University students — profiling in its polite, procedural form, kept as primary evidence.

The Massacre at Qala-i-Jangi - Guardian UK

From the archive (2001): the Guardian’s Qala-i-Jangi investigation — atrocity reporting as institutional capability, preserved since publication.