Middle East

Inconvenient facts for those manufacturing the Turk vs Kurd or Arab vs Kurd false binaries

As the world turns its fire on Turkey, it is told you were damned for backing Syria's revolutionaries, damned for fighting terror, damned for embracing four million refugees and damned for seeking to repatriate them.

Do assassinations change history?

It was on this day in 1187 that Salāh al-Dīn had liberated Quds (Jerusalem) and Al-Aqsa from the Crusaders after 88 years of occupation. Z A Rahman relives the moment Al-Aqsa was mercilessly taken by the Crusaders and how it was mercifully won back by Salāh al-Dīn and how it will be liberated once more InshaAllah

From Cairo to Alexandria to Suez, people are demanding the coup leader's ouster. After thousands of martyrs and incarcerations, the Egyptian giant is finally waking up from its slumber.

Is the reaction we are seeing to the Kashmir crisis a sign of shifting priorities for Muslims' rulers?

Muslim charities are collateral damage as leaked documents show a UK newspaper used for propaganda for Gulf monarchies.

“And when the girl who was buried alive is asked. For what sin she was killed?”

"Today, as a handful of Jews take to the streets in protest of the Declaration, they are simply labelled as ‘self-loathing Jews’ and are portrayed as an anomaly. But arguably, those few Jewish voices of opposition were, once upon a time, seen as the majority."

"Those seeking to 'liberalise' the country have become neither stately custodians of Islām, nor paraders of the political systems of Liberalism. They sway between the two and belong to neither."