Rumy Hasan

Rumy Hasan is a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professorial Research Fellow at the Civitas Think tank.

8 Posts

From Playboy Sports Star to Islamist Politician: The Strange Turn of Imran Khan

A further irony is that while Khan presses ahead with entrenching Islam in every nook and cranny of the polity and society, other Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia, are toning down the hard-line version of Islam that they have long promulgated.

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23 Oct 2021 · 6 min read

Masochistic Nationalism—A Review

Post-colonial guilt in Britain and other formerly imperial Western powers can produce similar displays of self-flagellation and denial.

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15 May 2021 · 7 min read

The Suffocation of Academic Freedom by the Research Excellence Framework

Lord Robbins went on to stress that academics should have the freedom to “speculate and investigate as the spirit moves one, and to publish without restraint.”

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1 Feb 2020 · 5 min read

The New White Man's Burden

It is unforgivable that the rulers of the countries from which citizens are attempting to enter Europe utter not a word when tragedy befalls unseaworthy vessels in the Mediterranean, and they make no effort to have the bodies of the dead returned home.

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5 Dec 2019 · 6 min read

Theoterrorism versus Freedom of Speech—A Review

Not only had Carrell hurt the feelings of the Iranian people, but he had hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world. There would be consequences.

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14 Aug 2019 · 8 min read

Identity, Islam, and the Twilight of Liberal Values—A Review

Rather than exposing and opposing the damage done by Islamism in the West, soi disant liberals, leftists, and progressives have acted as its supporters and cheerleaders.

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20 May 2019 · 6 min read

Does Religion Impede Economic Development?

Protestantism was a movement of protest against the Catholic Church and the severing of ties with its centralised, hierarchical institutions.

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2 Apr 2018 · 6 min read

Islam Has Become Toxic in the West

The kernel of an explanation lies in the fact that the majority think that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy and the Western way of life.

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6 Apr 2017 · 10 min read