Tag Archives: OPPRESSION

From revealing US human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay to Obama’s secret war in Yemen, the arrest of Julian Assange represents an attack on accountability and justice. 

"...the Muslims were welcomed by a large proportion of the ruling aristocracy and the Jews."

The new law is part of a wider crackdown on Muslims and Islamic traditions in China…

It is vital that we acknowledge that oppression is beyond the scope of physical violence and can manifest in different guises. We begin by looking at the dog whistle.

Z A Rahman compares the racist and genocidal histories of "nations" that think they will remain forever...

“Indeed, Allāh will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves."

There may be glass ceilings and there may be ceilings of barbed wire for the women of this world. But there exists no ceiling between us and our Creator...

Powerful and sustained propaganda has replaced ‘al-Haram al-Sharif’ or ‘al-Aqsa’ in public discourse with the phrase ‘Temple Mount’. But what is it, and does it really exist?

Z A Rahman ponders over the difference: the revolt led by the Ulama of India in May 1857 & the Ulama of CVE in 2017...

9 reasons why it is time for Israel’s retirement Yet again we mark another birthday of the ongoing international catastrophe known as Israel. It has been 69 years since almost a million Palestinian were ransacked of their homeland, killed and ...