Bad Advice: Phares and Gaffney Join Trump and Cruz Teams
For once, Donald Trump was the honest one. Asked on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” program whom he consults with on foreign policy issues, he said “I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very...
View ArticleMayor and Muslim| From Sadiq Khan To Naheed Nenshi
It is not very often that the word Muslim is juxtaposed to something positive in global news. Sadiq Khan's election as the first Muslim mayor of London was one of those refreshingly rare occasions...
View Article10 Shameful Examples of Western Media “Reporting” On Turkey Coup
By Shehzade Mustafa It is hard to be shocked these days, but sometimes you just can't help but be amazed by the audacity of some of the media. Below is a list (by no means complete) of irresponsible,...
View Article10 Utanç Verici Örnek: Bati Medya’da Türkiye’deki Darbe Giriṣimi
By Shehzade Mustafa Bugünlerde ṣaṣırmak eskisine nazaran daha zor, fakat bazen bazi medyanın cüreti karṣısında ṣaṣkınlıḡa düṣmemek elde deḡil. Aṣaḡida bulunan liste sorumsuzca, yalan yanliṣ ve hatta...
View Article75 Reasons Why Muslims Must Stop With Their Terrorism Condemnation Ritual
By Ismail Ibrahim (Reading time without references: 45 minutes) The Islamic faith requires Muslims to believe in and practice five pillars. In our day and age, condemning terrorism committed by...
View ArticleThe Eid of Darkness in Kashmir
By Muhammad Faysal For the last 75 days, Kashmir has been under a suffocating siege. A continuous curfew and a subsequent clampdown on protests, have resulted in a humanitarian crisis and another...
View ArticleAleppo: This Muharram We Have A New Karbala
By Ghaith al-Khatib The flags of the oppressors flutter in the wind, surrounding their increasingly desperate prey. More and more of them appear as the combined forces of tyranny sense their moment of...
View Article15 things You Need To Know About China’s Torture of Uyghur Muslims
By Gulnaz Uyghur The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is China's largest provincial unit, accounting for one sixth of the Chinese territory. This region does not belong to the country as it was...
View ArticleTen Gifts for Aleppo
By Rahma Shata When Amr Ibn AlAs asked Umar for an army of no less than 4,000 men, Umar sent FOUR men. With their Eman, each was worth 1,000 men and their goal was accomplished. When Mohamed Ibn Qasim...
View ArticleLetter to Michelle Obama From a Christian Pastor: Aafia is to Pakistanis what...
December 25, 2016 Dear Mrs. Obama, I was the campus minister for Kayla Mueller when she was a student at Northern Arizona University, and maintained close contact with Kayla until she was taken hostage...
View ArticleThe Inauguration of Ignorance Impedes The Eradication of Extremism
President Donald J. Trump wants to unite the world against what he calls “Radical Islamic Terrorism”, but by his own admission, he has yet to figure out “what the hell is going” when it comes to why...
View ArticleExecutive Order on ‘Muslim Ban’– What Do We Know
President Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order dramatically restricting refugee admissions to the U.S. and denying visas to individuals from countries his administration deems...
View ArticleUber Takes on Mass Deletions from Ties to Trump’s Muslim Ban
Solidarity amidst chaos and confusion Since Friday January 20, 2017 the Department of Homeland Security and TSA have been honoring the executive order of the Trump administration to prohibit entry...
View ArticleMyanmar Matters: Protect The Rohingya, Protect Us All
By Jamila Hanan The plight of the Rohingya, you must have heard about it by now: one million people living in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in the state of Arakan (renamed Rakhine) on the coastline...
View ArticleAn Appeal to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Free All Rohingya Detainees in...
By Ro Nay San Lwin, Rohingya Blogger and Richard Potter, Burma Human Rights Network The first time Nurul* truly left the refugee camp he was born in he was taken to the river with human traffickers. He...
View ArticleThis Eid A Uyghur Muslimah Tells Her Story
By Gulnaz Uighur My name is Gulnaz and I am a Uyghur Muslim. My place of birth is East Turkestan but the world knows it as ‘Xinjiang’ because China says so. When I was a child, entering my teenage...
View ArticleNavigating The Nouman Ali Khan Scandal
American Professor Randy Pausch famously said, “When there’s an elephant in the room, introduce it.” So let’s talk about Nouman Ali Khan. If you don’t know who he is, don’t worry. Two million followers...
View ArticleDestroying Movements From Within: From Unveiling Algeria to Identity Politics
By Raja AbdulHaq At the peak of the Algerian resistance against French colonialism, colonial officials started adopting a new strategy to destroy the Algerian resistance from within, dubbed as...
View ArticleIt’s Not My Fault
On April 13, 1919, the 9th Gurkhas, 54th Sikhs & 59th Sind Rifles, on the orders of Col. Dyer, fired on an unarmed, peaceful crowd gathered to celebrate Besakhi at the Jalianwala Bagh in Amritsar....
View ArticlePuerto Rico: The Real Hunger Games
By Wendy Díaz In the popular book turned movie, The Hunger Games, set in a post-apocalyptic world, the Capitol of Panem (bread in Latin), rules over thirteen nation-states referred to as districts....
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