Europe & Central Asia
Interview with Arun Kundnani

Interview with Arun Kundnani

Arun Kundnani is a British writer and human rights activist. He is the former editor of Race and Class, published by the Institute of Race Relations in London, and is currently an Open Society Institute fellow. In 2009, he wrote Spooked: How Not to Prevent Violent Extremism, which explored the effects of the Prevent program, the British counter-radicalism policy aimed at Muslim communities. Here he talks to John Feffer of Foreign Policy In Focus about the debate on multiculturalism in the United Kingdom, the dichotomy between “good” and “bad” Muslims, and the status of the Preventing Violent Extremism program.

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Interview with the Islamic Human Rights Commission

Interview with the Islamic Human Rights Commission

Massoud Shadjareh is the chair and Arzu Merali the director of research of the Islamic Human Rights Commission in London, which was established in 1997. They talked with FPIF  in December about Islamophobia in the United Kingdom, the rise of the far right, and the Prevent Terrorism initiative of the British government

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