Tag: SUBJUGATION
Dismantling the Language of Oppression: the Dog Whistle
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.
Could YOU be to Blame for the State of the Ummah?
“Indeed, Allāh will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves."
Shocking report exposes secret “Human Slaughterhouse”
Today Amnesty International has published a harrowing 48-page report, exposing the “cold-blooded killing of thousands of defenceless prisoners” secretly and systematically in just one particular Syrian government jail called Saydnaya. An estimated 13,000 people have been hanged there in the past five years, by mass hangings of up to 50…
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 Auld, and expressed his curiosity of “this mystery of reading,”…
Can Muslims be racist?
Can Muslims be racist? Ten years ago I worked a temporary job in a factory during the summer holidays from university. There I once met in passing a Pakistani gentleman who was to say something to me that I still remember to this day. When he learned during a conversation…
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
Islamophobia IS Racism
With the rise of racist parties throughout Europe who attack people of colour*, the term ‘racism’ has been distorted to such a degree that even some of the leaders of these racist parties claim to be “anti-racist” (in the same way the leader of the Swedish Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, has…
How stones changed the course of history
“And when you threw, it was not you who threw; it was rather Allāh that threw” Stone-wielding Palestinians have become a symbol against the brutal illegal occupation. However, the practice of stone-throwing and stones and rocks themselves, have deep religious, cultural and historical resonance as we shall now explore. Abraha…
Do Muslims belong in the West?
All Praise belongs to Allāh, Lord of the worlds. May His peace and blessings be upon His final messenger, Muhammad (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam). Do Muslims belong in the West? That the sahāba were the best of mankind after the prophets and messengers is widely known. Not only is their…
Curse of the inferiority complex
Not long had passed since the drowning of the evil Pharaoh and his oppressing nation. Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) had taken retribution against them for all their wrong doings towards the Prophet of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā), Mūsā (ʿalayhi al-Salām), and his people, the Children of Israel. Finally, his tyrannical…
