Has the US had a moral awakening as a force for good in Syria?
Read More »Chemical Attack in Syria: what “red line”?
The footage was extremely difficult to watch; images of men, women and small children writhing in agony, gasping for air and in the last throes of their lives.[1] They were deprived of the sanctity, privacy and dignity of death by ...
Read More »The “Betrayal” of Turkey
Has Turkey betrayed Syria? The fall of the ‘revolutionary heartland’, the City of Aleppo, spurred arguably more attention than nearly six years of the Syrian crisis. People took to social media, engaged in varying forms of political activism and encouraged ...
Read More »#AleppoIsDying – “What Use is Protesting?”
I have seen many comments and messages from people questioning the point of petitions, demonstrations, lobbying campaigns and even prayer to try and stop the ongoing genocide in Aleppo. People are frustrated and feel they must do something. Others question ...
Read More »#AleppoIsDying but her people are victorious
Never in the history of war has the world been able to follow, up close and personal, the lives and the news of people who have suffered during a brutal war. However, we have watched and read in disbelief as the ...
Read More »The loss of a leading figure in Islamic revival, Muḥammad Surur b. Nayif Zayn al-ʿAbidīn
On Friday 11 Safar 1438, which coincides with 11th November 2016, the Muslim Ummah lost one of its unique Islamic scholars and thinkers. Sheikh Muḥammad Surur b. Nayif Zayn al-ʿAbidīn, may Allāh shower him with His immense mercy, passed away ...
Read More »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 ...
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