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Kunwar Shahid

Why Pakistani educational institutes are under attack

Kunwar Shahid
2 February, 2016

It’s going to take a lot more than state-sponsored jingles to win this war of narratives

Comment: ISIS’ pivot to East Asia shows it is still winning the ideological war

Kunwar Shahid
19 January, 2016

It is now an ominous reality that global jihadist factions are uniting under the ISIS umbrella

Saudi, Iran and ISIS are competing for global Muslim leadership. We mustn’t let any of them win

Kunwar Shahid
6 January, 2016

Condeming ISIS is easy. We need to tackle the ideology common to Saudi and Iran.

Paris attacks: Jihadism is an Islamic issue and twenty-first century Orientalists need to stop suggesting otherwise

Kunwar Shahid
15 November, 2015

Those who are genuinely interested in countering Islamist terrorism need to encourage dissenting voices in the Muslim world

Comment: The hypocrisy of boycotting Israel

Kunwar Shahid
6 November, 2015

Boycotters of Israel are often silent about greater violations of human rights

Comment: The Ankara bombings highlight dangerous Turkish fault lines

Kunwar Shahid
13 October, 2015

Erdogan’s paranoia about Kurdish separatism is blinding him to the ISIS threat

It’s time to question Saudi hegemony over Muslim pilgrimage and Islamic heritage

Kunwar Shahid
25 September, 2015

It’s about time we Muslims stood up to the Saudis becoming godfathers of our religious heritage

The author of the ‘counter terrorism curriculum’ advocates murder for blasphemy

Kunwar Shahid
25 June, 2015

Anybody who peddles the concept of ‘true Islam’ inadvertently gives credence to the likes of ISIS

Any sympathy with the Charlie Hebdo attack is worrying, but Muslims are moving in the right direction

Kunwar Shahid
2 March, 2015

We need to emphasise that for most Muslims it is a huge leap from being offended to justifying violence

Just as with other religions, we must be allowed to offend Islam

Kunwar Shahid
8 January, 2015

As long as radical Islam remains immune from criticism a moderate version will struggle to emerge.

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