Media cover-up: Shielding Israel is a matter of policy
Palestinian-American journalist and author Ramzy Baroud says the Western media's bias towards Israel has been put into sharp focus by Israel's recent massacres of...
Why Ronaldo’s bicycle kick goal moved us more than those dead Palestinians
Blogger Najm Al-Din explains how the entertainment industry has become the new opiate for the masses.
In a chapter of the Qur’an entitled ‘Al-Mu’minun’ (The...
Heroic Gazans revive new spirit in Palestine
Veteran Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan says the heroic Gazans have put the Palestinian cause back in the limelight by facing down Israeli snipers...
Is there such a thing as “Islamic feminism”?
Bassam Zawadi goes through different types of feminist theories and poses the question whether they can be reconciled with normative Islamic concepts, beliefs and...
Understanding Malala – the wider context beyond the polarisation
Pakistani political analyst Shiraz Paracha argues that Malala Yousafzai, who returned to Pakistan this week five years after being shot by the Taliban, is...
“A man of prayer, Quran, and charity” – This was my husband, Dr Abbas...
Hanaa Yehia, the widow of British surgeon Dr Abbas Khan, who died in a Syrian government prison in December 2013, describes the characteristics of...
Book Review: A Virtue of Disobedience by Asim Qureshi
"Throughout the pages of this book, I have done my best to understand the world that I see before me through the lens of...
Archbishop’s views on Muslims and multiculturalism are a throwback to colonialism
Faisal Bodi argues that the Archbishop of Canterbury is the latest senior figure in British public life to jump on the Islamophobic bandwagon.
The unending...
Are governments using subterfuge to discredit our leaders?
Tamim Mobayed argues if you think that our leaders are infallible, you need to wake up. But if you think that subversion and deception...
I know France, that’s why I don’t believe Tariq Ramadan accusations
Journalist Hafsa Kara-Mustapha explains why she doesn't believe the accusations of rape levelled against the prominent Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan.
It feels odd to write...
