Tag Archives: CIVIL RIGHTS

The life, legacy, and martyrdom of Malcolm X (raḥimahu Allāhu)

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.

Many of MPs lamenting the Windrush scandal supported the legislation that paved the way for it in the first place—the Immigration Act 2014

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...

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...

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. [1] That such inhumanity and manifest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“…the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ‘I can take it no longer”. Many will be aware that a film has recently been released entitled ‘Selma’ which is based on the life and times of ...