International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding

The International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding (MnM) seeks to understand the root causes of the differences between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities and to pioneer ways of bridging the divide that these differences seem to produce. The centre promotes critical scholarship and research that helps to improve understanding and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is socially engaged and contributes to both academic and public debates. It presents new ways of thinking about contemporary communities and cultures, offering us the chance to re-imagine our world.

US military trainers call for total war on Islam

22 May 2012

Leaked course materials from a US military training facility confirm claims that lectures delivered to senior military personnel have called for a ‘total war’ on Islam that would see the complete annihilation of Muslim civilian populations in Hiroshima-scale strikes on Mecca and Medina ...

By Chloe Patton

Nakba Day commemoration

15 May 2012

May 15 was Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, the day after which, in 1948, the state of Israel was formally established and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had their expulsion from their lands finalised. The state of Israel could not have been created without the mass transfer of the indigenous population out of the territory that was to become Israel. Jewish militias destroyed villages throughout Palestine, removing their inhabitants to outside the borders of their future state, and killing many unarmed adult and adolescent men who were considered a potential threat ...

By Alasdair Hynd

Hunger strike over

15 May 2012

AP reported overnight that an important deal has been struck between the Israeli government and some 1600 Palestinian prisoners involved in a hunger strike. The news comes on the eve of Palestine’s national day of mourning over the forced displacement of Palestinians when the state of Israel was established 64 years ago. The agreement raises hopes for the recovery of the two men who launched the hunger strike back in February who, after 77 days without food, are currently in a critical condition in hospital ...

By Chloe Patton

Book chapter

1 may 2012

Professor Sayyid's latest book chapter is 'La umma como diáspora' in Gema Martín Muñoz and Ramón Grosfogual (eds) La islamofobia a debate: la genealogía del miedo at islam y la construcción de los discursos antiislámicos, Casa Árabe, Madrid.

Radio interview with Nahid Afrose Kabir

1 may 2012

On Sunday 29 April 2012 Nahid Afrose Kabir appeared on Radio Adelaide’s A Peace of the Action program. Nahid spoke about early Muslim arrivals to Adelaide, among them the renowned Afghan herbalist Mohamet Allum and the cameleers who contributed to the establishment of the Little Gilbert St mosque more than 100 years ago. Nahid also responded to questions about her recent work on Muslim youth identity in Australia, the UK and the US and the impact of 9/11 on these communities.

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