Muslim loyalty and belonging
The world is at present in the grip of fear. We fear an unknown absence that hides behind the mundanity of our experience; perhaps ubiquitous and confident, perhaps broken and at an end…
No room for justice
The parallels between the Palestinians’ 50 years of struggle for their own land and the anti-apartheid movement’s decades of military and civil campaigns for majority rule are seen as obvious in Southern Africa, where liberation wars successfully ended colonialism and racial oppression…
Dealing with Islamophobia
“We are the tangible link between Islam and the modern, secular world. In more than one sense, we are living in two cultures, two civilizations, at one and the same time…”
The Seven Pillars of Jewish Denial
The path from this troubled awareness to my later ability to be critical of Israel has been long and complex. Over the years I have spoken with other Jews who have traveled this same path, and to many more who haven’t. In each of us I have detected mental obstacles that make it hard, sometimes impossible, for us to see what is there before our eyes…
The unorthodox orthodox
They strictly follow the tenets of the Torah. They also burn Israeli flags. Alex Klaushofer meets the members of Neturei Karta in north London – the Jewish world’s most outspoken critics of Zionism.
Israeli Repression and the Language of Liars
If what we see in Israel is democracy, then what does fascism look like? In a world such as this, where words have lost all meaning, we might as well just burn all the dictionaries…
Ummah in crisis
Those of us who have been following the big news stories around the world, will know that Muslims are going through a period of hardship and distress that we haven’t experienced for many, many years.
Priorities and Exams
The moral of the Ayah is that those drives and motives inside us can either lead us to the pleasure of Allah SWT and lead us eventually into Heaven or the same motives and same desires can lead us to hell fire.