Tag: CIVIL RIGHTS
Disabled Muslim wins hearing against Amnesty in Navalny case
Aisha Jung, who was sacked from Amnesty International in May 2022 after 17 years' service, has won a hearing confirming her disability status.
Malcolm: Little to X
The life, legacy, and martyrdom of Malcolm X (raḥimahu Allāhu)
What Have We Learnt From Malcolm X? (Rahimahullah)
In this Face to Face episode, Fahad Ansari discusses some pertinent lessons from the wisdom of Al-Hajj Malik el-Shabbaz, more popularly known as Malcolm X, rahimahullah.
The Windrush scandal is just the tip of the racist iceberg in British politics
Many of MPs lamenting the Windrush scandal supported the legislation that paved the way for it in the first place—the Immigration Act 2014
Turkish marriage law finally recognises Muslim weddings, infuriating Islamophobes
After a 91-year struggle against contradictory, secularist marriage laws imposed on them, Turkey wins back a small part of its stolen identity, sparking outrage from some...
Judgement Released: Judicial Review into Prevent
We welcome the release of the judicial review judgement after waiting for almost eight months. Although we seek to appeal parts of it, we are please to say that there are some very positive outcomes for the community, alhamdulillāh...
Is LBC’s firing of Katie enough to combat Nazi ‘Solutions’?
In 1942, a sequence of events eventually culminated in the extermination of nearly 6 million Jewish men, women and children; and it all began with the euphemistically termed “Final Solution” to the Jewish Question. That such inhumanity and manifest evil could be tolerated to occur in the world, with mass…
Muhammad Ali’s Secret to Success
Muhammad Ali, one of the world’s greatest boxers, sports personality; cultural icon and probably the most famous man on the planet will be acutely missed. May Allah (subhanahu wa taʿala) forgive his sins and raise him up among the righteous in Jannat-ul-Firdaus. Having followed his career since I was a…
Education: The Difference Between Freedom & Slavery
Frederick Douglass, the infamous runaway slave who became a strong orator of the abolitionist movement, highlights in his autobiography a moment during his youth when he lived with his master’s brother’s family. Frederick approached the mother of the house, Sophia Auld, and expressed his curiosity of “this mystery of reading,”…
What Have We Learnt Since Malcolm X’s Martyrdom?
In an age when Muslims in the West find themselves as a minority, it is time for us to examine the life of Malcolm X and adopt his attitudes and beliefs as a template for our own attitudes and behaviour.