Posts by Sara Cheikh Husain

The zero-sum logic that the Royal Commission’s witnesses have voiced through the IHRA definition is a colonial act of oppression. If the state succumbs to that logic, as every indication suggests it will, Muslim political solidarity with Palestine risks becoming not merely unrecognised but structurally criminalised. The full institutional protection of one community will come to be constitutively built on…Read More

The invitation by the Lebanese Muslim Association, and the intense criticism it received, reveal that, despite a shared sense of collective grief, the Australian Muslim community currently lacks a unified strategy for interacting with a political system that continues to marginalises it.   The post United in grief, divided in strategy: the limits of Australian Muslim political engagement appeared first on…Read More

Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Aftab Malik, released his report, entitled A National Response to Islamophobia, last week. Below is where I believe it has failed Australian Muslims. The post Where the envoy’s Islamophobia Report fails Muslims appeared first on Overland literary journal. Source link overland.org.auRead More