Muslim Issues

At a time when calls for reforming the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) are getting stronger, we find a devious move to scuttle the reform process altogether by some UK-based bigots obsessed with depriving our Muslim women here of a basic human right. One such is the so-called ‘Strengthen MMDA’ movement and their mouthpiece, a woman going by the …

A view of Ibrahimi Mosque RAMALLAH, Palestine:  The Israeli army on Saturday closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers, according to the mosque director. Sheikh Hefzy Abu Asinina told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli army only allowed settlers to visit the site to mark the Chayei Sarah occasion. “The mosque has been closed …

Exclusive: Mahmoud al-Zahar talks about potential prisoner exchanges, May’s Gaza-Israel war, the current shaky ceasefire and the likelihood of further conflict, and affirms the movement wants Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti freed. In May, the Israeli military and Gaza’s armed groups engaged in 11 days of brutal warfare, resulting in the deaths of 270 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Since then a …

Israeli forces seen raiding the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem in June [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters] Dozens wounded and arrested in Israeli raids on Palestinians at Damascus Gate and in surrounding areas. Occupied East Jerusalem – Israeli forces violently raided Damascus Gate and surrounding streets in occupied East Jerusalem for the second day in a row during a Palestinian …

Camp 5 at the US Military’s Prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. © AFP / Thomas WATKINS; (nset) Abu Zubaydah. © Wikipedia At long last, thanks to the testimony of a Palestinian held at Guantanamo Bay, someone might finally be held accountable for the gross human rights violations the agency inflicted on so many with such impunity for years. In a …

Flares from Israeli forces in night sky over Gaza City, July 28, 2014. (UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan) It’s hard to be a moral person and a Zionist at the same time, writes Lawrence Davidson. Anyone who pays attention to the struggle for Palestinian rights, and the corresponding fight for a just and egalitarian Israel, is familiar with the phenomenon PEP: Progressive Except …