How to react to the death of President Karimov
Qatāda b. Rib’i reported that the Messenger (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) said: “…(the death of) a wicked person relieves the people, the land, the trees, (and) the animals from him.” President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, who was responsible for gross abuses towards human beings and excessive persecution of Muslims under the banner of preventing “Islamic fundamentalism”, has died suffering a stroke. Only Allāh knows the final abode, whether Paradise or Hell, of any specific person but a Muslim rejoices or is saddened by what is apparent of good action and beliefs or otherwise, while Allāh alone knows what is…
The Defining Battle of Aleppo
The Turning Point of the Great Battle of Aleppo To Allāh belongs all praise. Though the size of Syria's trauma leaves little for one to celebrate, Allāh imparts moments of victory, moments of joy, moments of relief to strengthen our resolve and to remind us that He is with us, and His promise after His trial will surely come to pass, "Or did you suppose that you would enter the Garden (Jannah) without facing the same as those who came before you? Poverty and illness afflicted them and they were shaken to the point that the Messenger and those who…
17 suspicious facts about Daesh
Under US-led aerial bombardment, Iraqi Government forces and pro-Iranian militia known as the 'National Mobilisation Front' continue their assault on Sunni neighbourhoods. Although disturbed and aggravated, many Muslims around the world are struggling to understand exactly what is happening. On the one hand we recognise the atrociousness of these crimes, yet on the other, and lending to the tangled and delusional propaganda delivered by those forces complicit in the 'grander objective', we are made to think that the alternative is ISIS, or Daesh. Daesh, however, is now well known to be a perverted group, either a contemporary stroke of the…
Fallujah Massacre – statement from Association of Muslim Scholars
Statement from the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq on the Fallujah Massacre The General Secretariat of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq issued a statement about the horrific massacre, committed by the (Iraqi) ‘National Mobilisation’ militias against civilians after seizing control of the city of Al-Karmah. The text of the statement is as follows: The horrific massacre, perpetrated by the ‘National Mobilisation’ militias against civilians after seizing control of the city of Al-Karmah: In the name of Allāh, and may peace be upon the Messenger Muḥammad, son of ʿAbdullāh (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam), and upon his companions,…
Fallujah, the Gaza of Iraq
Al Fallujah, Starving between a Rock and a Hard Place In a desperate letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the 'Arabic European Center of Human Rights and International Law' reports that food and medicine in Iraq's Fallujah has all but entirely depleted due to a strangling siege enforced by the Iraqi government and its militias. Families can only feed their children leaves from trees and shrubs. Many have turned to suicide, whilst others anticipate inevitable death by starvation in what has been classified as genocide. Muslim Scholars from all over the world are exhorting all whom Allāh has given…
Is it Time for Hijrah?
How often do we feel overwhelmed by the difficulties the Muslims around the world are going through? Not only are Muslims victimised, invaded and displaced, but on the end of a systematic ideological challenge. Our values are constantly being questioned, our beliefs interrogated, our Qur'an contested and our beloved Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) abused. Many times we speak of a mass migration to a Muslim country, happy to receive us and better for our level of practice. But before accommodating this thought, how many of us have tried to fulfil its purpose from our very homes in the…
How I saw the Seashore Child
How I saw the Seashore Child When you saw that Syrian child, an innocent, precious gem, thrown on its face on the shores of Turkey, what did you think? Did you see the child of an unfortunate 'migrant', who had stumbled into the sea on-par a voyage to a 'better', 'more' comfortable life in the European utopian continent of bliss, prosperity, acclaimed Human Rights and morality? Or did you see the child of the frantic refugee, fleeing for his life, turning East and West to no avail, to hit the ravaging, cold sea, towards somewhere northern, away from the brutality of…
Did Netanyahu just respond to his own arrest petition?
If you haven't signed yet, click here to sign the petition and help it reach 100,000 With the petition calling for the arrest of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to the UK rushing to 100,000 signatures, the Government has already mustered together a quick reply, click here to read it. But they needed not get flustered to rush out a response at 03:01am on Saturday morning. The tens of thousands of ambitious signers were left to marvel at how Netanyahu himself apparently managed to tap into the 'petitions committee'. I have considered your reply and would now like…
Cancel Sisi’s invitation to the UK
[button color="gray" size="medium" link="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104600" target="blank" ]Sign Petition Parliamentary Petition to cancel Sisi's invitation to visit the UK Despite an abhorrent human rights record, mass killings & arrests, president Sisi has been invited to the UK. We the undersigned call upon the PM & Gov to: - Urgently retract invitation extended to Sisi - Exert pressure on Egyptian gov to rescind all death sentences - Halt sales of arms For more information read the following and sign the Petition below HRW: Year of Abuses Under Sisi https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/08/egypt-year-abuses-under-al-sisi Amnesty Intl: Beware Sisi’s claims of freedoms https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/06/egypt-beware-al-sisis-claims-of-freedoms/ HRW: Rabaa Killings Likely A Crime…
Ban UK citizens from serving in the Israeli military
Parliamentary Petition to Ban UK citizens from serving in the Israeli military [button color="gray" size="medium" link="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105985" target="blank" ]Sign Petition There are currently many British citizens serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). The UK government should ban UK citizens – even if they hold other passports – from joining and serving in the Israeli military, police or other security forces. The Israeli military routinely commits acts which many experts believe, under international law, constitute war crimes - including occupying Palestinian territory; torturing suspects; bombing Palestinian schools, hospitals, and water plants; and conducting collective punishments of civilians - all of which…