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I read with much interest Lynn Ockersz’s article titled “Containing communalism emerging as key challenge” (Island of July 9), particularly his observations on British legislation on race relations. He refers to Britain’s Race Relations Councils which “are charged with eliminating unlawful discrimination in local authority areas, promoting equal opportunities and promoting good race relations between persons of different racial groups.” …
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Islam, Post-modernity and Freedom by Muqtedar Khan
In the light of the rise of Islam and Islamic resistance to Western colonialism and Israeli barbarism, I become more and more interested in the philosophy of Islam and the answers provided by contemporary Muslim scholars to questions having to do with Being. It had become clear to me recently that most of the West’s so-called ‘progressive minds’ (the ‘enlightened’ …
Read More »Anti-Racist Australians And Jews Against Zionism, War And Genocide, By Dr Gideon Polya
The following Open Letter letter is addressed to Australians, Australian media and Australian MPs. Dear Sir/Madam, Why anti-racist Australians and anti-racist Jewish Australians oppose racist Zionism, War and Genocide and cannot vote Labor. For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from …
Read More »Dr. Nazreen on the murder of Marwan Sherbini ” Hijab Martyr”
Dr Nazreen Nawaz (Hizb ut-Tahrir) interviewed about the murder of Marwa Sherbini in a German court, attitudes towards Muslims in the West and the reaction of Muslim governments.
Read More »Misapplying R2P in Sri Lanka, By Jorge Heine
The concept of Responsibility to Protect has triggered resistance in many countries of the Global South precisely because of its potential misapplication to situations such as the Sri Lankan one. Lakshman Kadirgamar, the former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, was one of the most incisive legal minds of his generation. A former president of the Oxford Union, he made significant contributions …
Read More »Islamic Spirituality: the forgotten revolution © Abdal-Hakim Murad
THE POVERTY OF FANATICISM ‘Blood is no argument’, as Shakespeare observed. Sadly, Muslim ranks are today swollen with those who disagree. The World Trade Centre, yesterday’s symbol of global finance, has today become a monument to the failure of global Islam to control those who believe that the West can be bullied into changing its wayward ways towards the East. …
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