Muslim Issues

This year marks 74 years of Al-Nakba, or the Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of their homeland. Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Having secured the support of the British government for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, on May …

ASHRAF A SAMAD COLOMBO: The world should be ashamed of it failure to resolve the Palestinian issue for the past 75 years which was a crime against humanity,Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said here in Colombo on Monday May 22. Premadasa was speaking at the Nakba Commemoration Day observed in Colombo by the embassy of the state of Palestine …

How the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is key to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem is one of the holiest sites in the world and one of the most contested. Why is it so significant? What’s been changing? And why is it emblematic of the wider Palestinian struggle?

Last year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a unanimous resolution submitted by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation deeming this day as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia [Alex Filipe/Reuters] UN report indicated that ‘suspicion, discrimination and outright hatred’ towards Muslims had reached ‘epidemic proportions’. The United Nations is observing March 15 as the International Day …

15 March was designated as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia by the UN The United Nations on March 10 commemorated the first-ever International Day to Combat Islamophobia with a special event in the General Assembly Hall, where speakers upheld the need for concrete action in the face of rising hatred, discrimination and violence against Muslims. The observation follows the …