Tag: IMPERIALISM
The Unquenchable Thirst For War
18 years ago today war-thirsty neocons tried ushering the globe into a new phase of endless destruction we are still experiencing today
How I saw the Seashore Child
How I saw the Seashore Child When you saw that Syrian child, an innocent, precious gem, thrown on its face on the shores of Turkey, what did you think? Did you see the child of an unfortunate 'migrant', who had stumbled into the sea on-par a voyage to a 'better', 'more'…
Time to Devour the ‘Hero’ they created from a Minion
Click to sign petitions to ban Sisi from entering the UK – Parliament – Avaaz In an Islam21c exclusive, a member of President Morsi's Government, and secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Mohamed Soudan gives an inside look into the psychological siege that is constricting Sisi. Time…
Secularism: the Caliphate’s Final Blow
Throughout history the disease of nationalism is a consistent cause of the downfall of nations. In a startling display of this Abū Jahl cited that his aversion to becoming a Muslim, despite knowing that the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) was indeed a Prophet, was tribal competitiveness. He says:…
Muslim Community: Crisis and Opportunity
The Muslim Community is in a state of emergency, but in it lies our greatest opportunity They say that humanity only really learns the most earnest of lessons in a state of crisis, a state of complete breakdown. Only after facing that breakdown, are we then capable of embracing the…
I refuse to wear a ‘Poppy Hijab’
In the latest attempt at unabashed apologism, some Muslim groups have asked Muslim women to don a ‘Poppy Hijab’ in order to remember the Muslim soldiers that took part in the two world wars. The president of one organisation suggested that these hijabs would “take attention away from extremists.“ This…
Awkward questions surrounding the ‘war on ISIS’
All praise be to Allāh and peace and blessings be upon His prophet, Muḥammad (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam). The position of mainstream Muslim scholars and intellectuals is under the spotlight and subject to scrutiny now more than ever in the wake of the anti-Islamic and heretic actions of ISIS.…
