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Index

Guest Editorials and Media Publications
  • Discriminatory Healthcare Policies Are Putting Human Rights At Stake - Rights Info - May 2019
  • The UK’s PREVENT policy would not prevent white supremacist attacks like Christchurch – it’s part of the problem - Media Diversified - April 2019
  • British Muslims will live with an intolerable burden of uncertainty under new counter-terrorism bill - The Conversation - November 2018
  • The government’s terror strategy 'compromises the Mental Health Act and must be challenged' -  Mental Health Today - September 2018
  • A year later: The mosque massacre & rising Islamophobia - The Conversation - January 2018
  • Cultural identity and its political nature within therapeutic space - Clinically Applied Anthropology - August 2018

Blog Posts

Individual Development
  • How do I reach my full potential?
  • Can we deal with psychological issues by ourselves?
  • Why do some people suffer from psychological issues more than others? (Part One)
  • Why do some people suffer from psychological issues more than others? (Part Two)
  • The significance of choice
  • The Human Capacity for Change
  • Free will in modern psychology
  • Living through the eyes of others
  • ​Finding your path: A tribute to the lost and confused 
  • The risk of our children inheriting our anxiety

Psychotherapy and Religion
  • Should a Muslim consult a non-Muslim therapist?
  • Can we deal with psychological issues by ourselves?
  • Can religious issues be masking psychological issues?
  • What is the difference between guilt and shame?
  • What is cognitive dissonance and how does it develop among Muslims?
  • How do jinn fit in a framework of mental health?
  • The significance of emotions in Islam
  • Anxiety - an existential purpose
  • ​Feeling down: A critical analysis of mental health and Islamic spirituality
  • ​Addiction to pornography and its unbearable solution
  • Losing one's religion, or how anxiety causes suffering in faith

Community
  • Reflections on the psychological tolls of free speech
  • What's wrong with the Muslim community?
  • The dismissal of the ‘should’ among Muslims - i.e. why don’t Muslims go organic?
  • Conformism and the morality of the many: should Muslims be downloading things illegally?
  • Marriage: the fallen saviour
  • Self-serving scholarly attachment: the blind side of scholar preference
  • The oppression of ethnocentrism​
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