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6 Jun

Trojan Hoax, Pharaoh al-Sisi and Bashar al-Giraffe's "electoral victory"

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Dilly Hussain shares his thoughts on the biggest news stories that have been trending this week. It’s been a busy week for Muslims and stooges alike. Here in the UK the ongoing Trojan Horse scandal has received non-stop media limelight as the British public continues to be misinformed by the usual suspects that “radical extremist jihadi […]

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28 Mar

The three stooges: General Sisi, Sheikh Hasina and Maajid Nawaz

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Dilly Hussain shares his thoughts on the biggest news stories that have been trending this week. In the first edition of his weekly memo, he covers Egypt, Bangladesh and Maajid Nawaz’s “new appointment” as a journalist for BBC Newsnight. I was tempted to just go “Rambo” on the whole flight MH370 hype, but realised that whether […]

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5 Aug

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and the failure of democracy

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Dilly Hussain writes that he was not surprised when earlier this week, Bangladesh’s High Court issued a landmark order prohibiting the country’s largest Islamic political party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) from participating in elections because its constitution was rendered “illegal.” I have always said that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Bangladesh’s JI have more in common besides […]

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24 Jun

Book review: The Inevitable Caliphate by Dr Reza Pankhurst

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The caliphate or “khilafah” is an Islamic political structure that has been central to Muslim history for 1300 years, writes Dilly Hussain. Many British Muslims have viewed it as something of an “abstract idea” or “an unattainable dream” but since the Arab Spring the issue of khilafah has been on the lips and minds of […]

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