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March 10, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
A fortnight into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the advance of the "special operation" is not going as rapidly or easy as the Kremlin thought it would. While Russian forces...
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February 25, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
What: The withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait, resulting in Iraq's acceptance of UN terms and resolutions following seven months of its occupation of its small Gulf neighbour. This...
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February 22, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and that bastion of communism just over thirty years ago, the United States and the western world have still not lost...
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February 12, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
When hundreds of students at the University of Cambridge gathered on Tuesday to protest the Israeli ambassador to Britain Tzipi Hotovely's speech at the Cambridge Union, cutting it short...
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January 31, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Many see Turkey as an increasingly interventionist force in its surrounding regions, but also as a mediating force. From its military interventions into Syria and Libya to its backing...
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January 18, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Almost two years ago, I penned an article highlighting the possibility of governments around the world – particularly Western democracies – using the spreading Covid-19 pandemic to implement a...
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January 5, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
Two years after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in a US missile attack at Baghdad Airport, the legacy of the late commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
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December 14, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Barely eight decades ago, while it was fighting the Nazis' fascism, the British government under Winston Churchill was simultaneously orchestrating and engineering one of the worst famines in human...
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December 3, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Everything in existence will be assimilated into the online world. Some things already have been. This has proven true with business, shopping, services, social life, journalism, warfare and with...
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Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event.
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November 24, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Few politicians in Britain's ruling Conservative Party are as controversial and unpopular as Home Secretary Priti Patel. Not the former health minister Matt Hancock, not the housing and communities...
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November 8, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Almost two years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic it is worth reviewing what has happened. With lockdowns around the world, preventative measures varied from country to country;...
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November 1, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
If there was one figure central to postcolonial studies and the intellectual force behind the Palestinian meeting with Western academia, it was undoubtedly the late Edward W Said. Although...
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October 26, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
What: The signing of a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, which ended over four decades of conflict. When: 26 October 1994 Where: Wadi Araba, Jordan-Israel border What happened?...
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October 21, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
When Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on the phone earlier this month, it set a precedent that thawed a decade of ice between the...
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October 10, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Over the course of the ongoing decade-long Syrian conflict, documentation of the war and its effects has always been desired by the outside world
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September 28, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Lebanon has had a rough ride over the past year: the failure to secure a viable government; the catastrophic Beirut blast; then the economic crash which caused its currency...
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September 13, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
There are relatively few truly world-changing events, but the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001 was one. Regardless of the numerous theories that have surrounded...
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September 1, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Ever since the stabbing of a Turk by two Syrian refugees in the Altindag neighbourhood of Ankara in early August, relations between the two communities have changed. Almost a...
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August 24, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Israel's apartheid system directed at the Palestinians is well documented. Within Israel's officially-recognised borders — which the state has never actually declared — as well as across the occupied...
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August 17, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
When provincial capitals fell one after another last week, surrendering to the Taliban and relinquishing the glittering mansions of the warlords who fled the country, it was clear to...
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August 13, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
When the extent of former British Prime Minister David Cameron's involvement in lobbying for the investment company Greensill Capital was revealed by the BBC's "Panorama" programme this week, the...
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August 2, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
When the Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the country's government a week ago, everyone knew it would be a turning point in the North African state's history, just not...
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July 20, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
What: Turkey's invasion of the north of Cyprus following a military coup which aimed to annex the island to Greece When: 20 July 1974 Where: Cyprus What happened? Upon...
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The last official border crossing open for humanitarian aid to get into north-west Syria is about to close. The lives of almost four million people – including the displaced...
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June 23, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Military withdrawals announced by the United States don't always happen the way that we expect them to. They are either drawn-out over a number of years, during which they...
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June 15, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
In Syria's north-west, a renewed military offensive has apparently been long overdue. Since the very signing of the ceasefire deal between Russia and Turkey on behalf of the Syrian...
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The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has – despite Israeli forces sabotaging the peace with a raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – held so far, officially at least. In...
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Every year, usually during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as if Palestinians are somehow unreactive without food in their stomachs, Israel does something that makes its security forces...
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April 30, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Influential American academic Noam Chomsky asked what he called a "simple question" in a recent interview with the journalist Ezra Klein for the New York Times: "Is the situation...
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April 21, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to...
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April 7, 2021
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Muhammad Hussein
Much has been speculated regarding Britain's Muslim community over the years, from the alleged rise of extremism to the overall state of the community within the wider British society....
A fortnight into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the advance of the "special operation" is not going as rapidly or easy as the Kremlin thought it would. While Russian forces...
What: The withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait, resulting in Iraq's acceptance of UN terms and resolutions following seven months of its occupation of its small Gulf neighbour. This...![Soldiers carry Chinese flag during the opening ceremony of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, 04 February 2022 [Aleksey Kirchu / Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220204_2_52036768_73335040-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and that bastion of communism just over thirty years ago, the United States and the western world have still not lost...![Head of Israel's Jewish Zionism list Bezalel Smotrich on May 10, 2021 [GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GettyImages-1232806862-scaled-e1644680070219.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When hundreds of students at the University of Cambridge gathered on Tuesday to protest the Israeli ambassador to Britain Tzipi Hotovely's speech at the Cambridge Union, cutting it short...![Relatives pray next to the coffins of 19 victims of Srebrenica Genocide ahead of buried at Potocari Memorial Cemetery, on the 26th anniversary of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 10, 2021 [Samır Jordamovıc - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/20210710_2_49142485_66879821.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Many see Turkey as an increasingly interventionist force in its surrounding regions, but also as a mediating force. From its military interventions into Syria and Libya to its backing...![People gather to protest against the failure to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on 13 February 2021 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210213_2_46858996_62488745.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Almost two years ago, I penned an article highlighting the possibility of governments around the world – particularly Western democracies – using the spreading Covid-19 pandemic to implement a...![People gather for a commemoration ceremony during a vigil marking the second anniversary of killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone attack at at Imam Khomeini Mosalla in Tehran, Iran on 3 January 2022. [Fatemeh Bahrami - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20220103_2_51576914_72202666.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Two years after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in a US missile attack at Baghdad Airport, the legacy of the late commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
Barely eight decades ago, while it was fighting the Nazis' fascism, the British government under Winston Churchill was simultaneously orchestrating and engineering one of the worst famines in human...![A visual representation of digital cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin is displayed on 16 February 2018 in Paris, France. [Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-919078630.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Everything in existence will be assimilated into the online world. Some things already have been. This has proven true with business, shopping, services, social life, journalism, warfare and with...
Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event.![Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel arrives to attend a requiem mass for Conservative MP David Amess at Westminster Cathedral in London on 23 November 2021. [NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1236750596.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Few politicians in Britain's ruling Conservative Party are as controversial and unpopular as Home Secretary Priti Patel. Not the former health minister Matt Hancock, not the housing and communities...![Workers wear medical face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in in Beirut, Lebanon on 26 March 2020 [Daniel Carde/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1208271248.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Almost two years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic it is worth reviewing what has happened. With lockdowns around the world, preventative measures varied from country to country;...
If there was one figure central to postcolonial studies and the intellectual force behind the Palestinian meeting with Western academia, it was undoubtedly the late Edward W Said. Although...
What: The signing of a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, which ended over four decades of conflict. When: 26 October 1994 Where: Wadi Araba, Jordan-Israel border What happened?...![Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus, Syria on 11 February 2016 [JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Bashar-al-Assad.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on the phone earlier this month, it set a precedent that thawed a decade of ice between the...
Over the course of the ongoing decade-long Syrian conflict, documentation of the war and its effects has always been desired by the outside world![People raise portraits of the head of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, as they gather to welcome tankers carrying Iranian fuel, upon their arrival from Syria in the city of Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on September 16, 2021 [AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GettyImages-1235290100-scaled-e1632816938847.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Lebanon has had a rough ride over the past year: the failure to secure a viable government; the catastrophic Beirut blast; then the economic crash which caused its currency...![Plumes of smoke can be seen from the World Trade Center towers in New York City during the 9/11 attacks [Michael Foran/Flickr]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2001_9_11-9-11WTC_smoking_on_9-11.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There are relatively few truly world-changing events, but the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001 was one. Regardless of the numerous theories that have surrounded...![A baby is seen in his mother arms as Syrian refugees pass through Oncupinar border gate to reach their hometowns before Eid al-Adha in Kilis, Turkey on 29 August, 2017 [Ensar Özdemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170829_2_25490005_25368185.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Ever since the stabbing of a Turk by two Syrian refugees in the Altindag neighbourhood of Ankara in early August, relations between the two communities have changed. Almost a...![Palestinian boys stand outside the entrance of street artist Banksy's newly opened Walled Off hotel in the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem, on March 3, 2017 [THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GettyImages-647554908-scaled-e1629817014916.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's apartheid system directed at the Palestinians is well documented. Within Israel's officially-recognised borders — which the state has never actually declared — as well as across the occupied...
When provincial capitals fell one after another last week, surrendering to the Taliban and relinquishing the glittering mansions of the warlords who fled the country, it was clear to...![David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister, in Cheltenham, England on 5 October 2019 [David Levenson/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1173853709.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When the extent of former British Prime Minister David Cameron's involvement in lobbying for the investment company Greensill Capital was revealed by the BBC's "Panorama" programme this week, the...![Supporters of Ennahda Movement in Tunis, Tunisia, on 27 February 2021. [Yassine Gaidi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210227_2_47084776_62919382.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When the Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the country's government a week ago, everyone knew it would be a turning point in the North African state's history, just not...
What: Turkey's invasion of the north of Cyprus following a military coup which aimed to annex the island to Greece When: 20 July 1974 Where: Cyprus What happened? Upon...![Syrians taking shelter in a camp in in Idlib, Syria on June 30, 2021 [ Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Idlib-refugees-demand-keeping-Syria-Turkey-crossing-open-for-aid_4.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The last official border crossing open for humanitarian aid to get into north-west Syria is about to close. The lives of almost four million people – including the displaced...![US Army soldiers walk to their C-17 cargo plane for departure May 11, 2013 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan [Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-483252999.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Military withdrawals announced by the United States don't always happen the way that we expect them to. They are either drawn-out over a number of years, during which they...![A Syrian boy looks at blood stains and shoes left behind next to a charred car, hit in reported bombardment by government forces on the village of Iblin in the Jabal al-Zawiya region in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on June 10, 2021 [ABDULAZIZ KETAZ/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233367925-scaled-e1623771196582.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In Syria's north-west, a renewed military offensive has apparently been long overdue. Since the very signing of the ceasefire deal between Russia and Turkey on behalf of the Syrian...
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has – despite Israeli forces sabotaging the peace with a raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – held so far, officially at least. In...![Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at Palestinian protesters during an anti-Israel protest over tension in Jerusalem, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, on May 12, 2021 [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-1232831091-scaled-e1620833797201.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Every year, usually during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as if Palestinians are somehow unreactive without food in their stomachs, Israel does something that makes its security forces...![Protesters wear masks during a protest against the Chinese government's policies and oppressions towards Uyghurs in front of Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Germany on 23 January 2021 [Abdulhamid Hoşbaş/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Nassima-20210123_2_46521893_61874458.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Influential American academic Noam Chomsky asked what he called a "simple question" in a recent interview with the journalist Ezra Klein for the New York Times: "Is the situation...![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan exchange documents during a signing ceremony following their meeting in Kiev on February 3, 2020 [SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1198370153-scaled-e1618993310397.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to...![Author William Shawcross with his Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO) medal, presented by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on March 10, 2011 in London, United Kingdom [Dominic Lipinski/WPA Pool/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-109915608-scaled-e1617786055506.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Much has been speculated regarding Britain's Muslim community over the years, from the alleged rise of extremism to the overall state of the community within the wider British society....