The former nationalist First Minister of Scotland is spearheading a network to place Muslims in positions of power.
Humza Yousaf was the first Muslim to hold a position of great power in the United Kingdom. He now wants to connect influential Muslims with young talent to place them in decision-making positions.
Humza Yousaf (on the left) at the MIF launch.
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At the end of September, a new organisation with a grandiose mission and global ambition called the Muslim Impact Forum (MIF) was quietly launched in London. The initiative was presented at Palestine House and defines itself as a movement that openly declares itself determined to “Connecting Muslim leadership, experience and resources”in the fields of business, academia, philanthropy and government. The stated objective is to put Muslims in positions of power. in the United Kingdom and all of the West.
The controversial Humza Yousaf heads the organisation.
The medium Arab News explains that the launch was headed by Humza Yousaf. The former nationalist First Minister of Scotland is known as one of the most controversial and racist of British politics. Yousaf was born in Glasgow in 1985, the son of Pakistani and Kenyan immigrants. Since 2011 he has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament and served as a minister before becoming First Minister.
He succeeded Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister of Scotland in March 2023, but he only lasted until May 2024 due to differences with his own party. His tenure was characterised by an identity-based and racist discourse., with interventions in Parliament denouncing that almost all institutional posts in Scotland were held by white people. He presented the situation as a problem and proposed promoting policies that reinforced division on grounds of origin and religion. Moreover, he pushed through Sharia-style blasphemy laws under the pretext of ‘hate speech reform’, effectively criminalising criticism of Islam.
Humza Yousaf's «moral mission»
The independence leader made his vision clear at the presentation of the MIF: “Politics is the arena where you can make the greatest difference. It's about putting good people into positions of power.”. Humza Yousaf described this agenda as a “moral mission”and warned about what he calls “the rise of the far right.”.
This label did not only refer to radical groups, but also included Conservative and non-Muslim sectors who disagree with his vision. According to Yousaf, the answer lies in the’self-organisation of Muslims, to align “strategically” and, in this way, to influence public policy and decision-making. Yousaf's speech perfectly encapsulated the dual strategy at play: on the one hand, to present Muslims as victims of ’anti-Muslim hatred‘ and the ’far right’; on the other hand, to advocate an unapologetic organisation and political expansion, asserting that Muslims must ‘influence’ governments and ’sit at the main table‘ of power.’
Coordination of Muslims in the West
The Muslim Impact Forum It starts from a central idea: conceiving the entire Muslim world as a single, compact community that should act as a bloc within Western societies. Far from being limited to being a space for debate or social assistance, The forum presents itself as a political and strategic coordination instrument to assert collective interests within institutions. alien.
The message is unequivocal: the MIF does not simply want to give voice to the Muslim community, but to establish a transnational power network that acts as a single bloc within Western countries. This conception proposes a model of politics based on religious identity rather than on common citizenship, opening the door to a form of Institutionalised sectarianism.
They have the strength of demographics on their side.
The forum's proponents argue that demographics give them strength: More than 4 million Muslims live in the United Kingdom, half of them under the age of 25. According to Professor Javed Khan, this makes the community “very rich, very generous and very young” —a human capital which, if mobilised as a bloc, can be transformed into political capital. Put another way: Youth and population growth are presented as a lever to gain influence and power.
Now, freed from electoral responsibility, Yousaf reappears on the international stage with what he calls ‘global Muslim commitment’, an agenda that seeks to reformulate Western governance from within. At the launch of the MIF in Palestine House The rhetoric about ‘Palestine’, the ‘genocide in Gaza’ and ‘humanitarian justice’ was mixed with the strategic message of political mobilisation. Far from being a grassroots initiative, it is a top-down network that brings together politicians, the media, philanthropists and business elites under a single banner: Align Muslim power across borders and institutions..
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