Tag: RACISM

Current Affairs Featured History Propagation Videos 17 Min Read

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.

Current Affairs Europe Featured Islamophobia Politics UK 10 Min Read

The CTS bill is now law, but ‘the battle is not over.’

It must be a sign of the times that as we mark 800 years of Magna Carta we expect a law that will tear it to shreds to pass through parliament largely unscathed. A community campaign was launched to #StopTheBill, a piece of legislation that will have a wide reaching

History Islamophobia Propagation 19 Min Read

Selma: An Islamic Narrative on Martin Luther King

If you wish to continue the legacy of Dr King, then stand with the Muslim community in its struggle for justice

Current Affairs Featured Islamophobia Politics 5 Min Read

French child-snatchers target Muslim children

French child-snatchers target Muslim children of a French Muslim couple. Their five children wer taken away from them after the father was apparently mistakenly suspected of leaving for Syria to fight jihād. The French authorities, which are on high alert following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, took the children

Current Affairs Europe Islamophobia Politics UK US 16 Min Read

MLK: I have a dream…to be an extremist

Before discussing Dr Martin Luther King Jr., there are a number of matters I wish to raise. Some of what I am about to say may come across as a little radical, even extreme. I would also hope that you read the entirety of what follows before passing judgment. With

Current Affairs Europe Featured Politics UK 16 Min Read

Government PANIC at thought of Jews leaving UK

Do Muslims have a voice and is anybody listening? Recently Theresa May said that she never thought she would see the day when Jews would want to leave Britain, her words were based on a survey by the Campaign for Anti-Semitism that found 45% of Jews considered that they had

Charlie Hebdo Current Affairs Europe Featured France Politics Special UK 10 Min Read

Sh. Haitham: My first response to the Paris incident

Shaikh Haitham al-Haddad: “My initial response to the #CharlieHebdo matter” “Allāh and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O you who believe! Send your blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.” Alḥāmdulillāh, today is the auspicious day of Jumuʿah (Friday), a day for which we know as

Charlie Hebdo Current Affairs Europe France Politics Special UK 15 Min Read

We are not Charlie

Following the horrific murders of police and journalists in Paris on Wednesday, Muslim communities in Europe are facing the inevitable consequences. Mosques in France have been attacked and Muslims in Europe are feeling further reverberations, evident in criticisms of their supposed contention with freedom of speech, whilst governments continue to

Current Affairs Europe France Politics UK 13 Min Read

16 shocking examples of #FreeSpeech double standards

Freedom of Speech in France: For the Powerful, By the Powerful, With the Powerful Let us leave aside what occurs closer to home where allied British and American Troops are repeatedly bombing and killing Al-Jazeera journalists. Let us look past the locking up of Moazzam Begg for exposing British collaboration

Current Affairs Middle East Palestine Politics 19 Min Read

Delayed justice for the Freedom Flotilla

Last week at the 7th High Criminal Court in Istanbul I gave my testimony to what I witnessed as a passenger on the Mavi Marmara, part of the 2010 Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. Four and a half years after the attack by State of Israel soldiers on the hundreds of

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