Asia

Our delegation to Bangladesh set off on the 13th April 2015 –5 days of travelling across several districts of Bangladesh visiting and supporting the poor people of Bangladesh and Burma. The following details our experiences in Cox’s Bazar – a ...

Chinese Uyghur Muslims Under Oppression: Where is the World? Attention by the mainstream press on the situation of Chinese Uyghur Muslim minority is dwindling. This, however, does not mean that their oppression by the Chinese government has ended. Just a ...

China’s massive 1.3 billion population is home to 10 million Uighurs; these are China’s biggest ethnic Muslim minority. However in recent years they have been subject to persecution by the Communist government in Beijing. The Uighurs predominantly live in China’s ...

The Emperor Aurangzeb, who rose to the throne in the 17th Century as the sixth Mughal ruler over “India”, is often painted as a vicious, religiously intolerant, minority-suppressing fanatic, whose only job was to demolish temples in favour of mosques, ...

Islam21c would like to offer its heartfelt condolences to the people of Bangladesh upon the passing away of one of their eminent leaders, Sheikh Professor Ghulam Azam, may Allāh have mercy upon him. A former leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Sheikh ...

The victory of Narendra Modi in the last Indian elections sent shockwaves through the world, not only because of his close ties to the fascist-inspired RSS but also because of his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots which left thousands ...

The Tartars are the state of Ukraine’s ethnic Muslim minority. Years ago this community were exiled by USSR leader, Joseph Stalin, to Uzbekistan and Siberia. This was done as a form of collective punishment for the Tatar’s alleged collaboration with ...

A brother that I know, Dr Saleh al-Ayid, wrote the following just a few minutes after Turkey’s electoral authorities announced that Recep Tayyip Erdogan won the general Presidential Turkish Election:   In the summer of the year 1421 AH, 2001 ...

A Letter from the Muslims of Sri Lanka – after Buddhist Mob’s Terrorism and Devastation To those who are concerned about the Muslims of Sri Lanka, May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. We, the Muslims of ...

According to a statement issued by the U.S. State Department on May 16th 2014, the United States has welcomed the success of the new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that U.S President Barack Obama will work to establish close ...