Iraq

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 ...

Sat on the sofa, we watched as grainy green night vision footage interspersed the almost still image of Baghdad’s horizon being lit up with a seemingly never ending procession of aerial bombardment. Operation “Shock and Awe” had begun in earnest. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone with a passing acquaintance with neocon ideology is well aware of the formidable feats of moral gymnastics used to justify perpetual war and endless conflict abroad. Yesterday’s ten-hour-long “debate” in the House of Commons saw a barrage of rehearsed ...

Click the video above to watch and listen; read the verses below Spoken word poet Boonaa Mohammed drives a bulldozer through the whitewashing of history that has tried to divert attention away from the chief perpetrators of the most unimaginably cruel and enduring ...

“Futuristic” films are produced in the USA about less materially advanced human populations laid siege by merciless robot armies, with apparently no recognition that the government is inflicting that very thing on very real people. In the UK last year ...

Of the few places in the world that celebrate their own leaders, Turkey is one of them. In any corner of Istanbul, the general sentiment is contentment at the remarkable achievements of the ruling party, rightly in power, as it ...

The Passing of Sheikh Harith al Dari – the Lion of the Sunnah For the Ummah to lose a great scholar and influential figure in times of strength and resilience is of the greatest of calamities. How is it then ...

The press conference nobody wants you to see! CAGE UK press conference; Jihadi John alleged Muhammad Emwazi What follows is a press conference organised by London-based advocacy group, CAGE. The recent revelations of “Jihadi John” *allegedly* being Muhammad Emwazi, a ...