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Our last occupation

No one, least of all the British, should be surprised at the state of anarchy in Iraq. We have been here before.

The greatest gulf

Apart from the immediate cost in human life, military intervention in Iraq has also represented a disastrous failure of imagination and a fatal inability to understand the role of history – and religion – in the region

Israelization of the United States

The founding fathers of Zionism understood clearly that their colonial project had no chance of succeeding without the patronage of a great power.

Accountability

We should not be expected to ingratiate ourselves to the extent that we avoid telling the truth about our concerns. Allah orders us to be truthful, even if it puts us into some difficulty.

Why should I study Islam?

How can one of us be too lazy to pray 2 raka’at at night, when the people of the Dunya spend the entire night watching movies, some of which they have to read the translation on the bottom of the screen?