Muslim Issues

Sri Lanka Muslims at the cross roads – 10 – By: Izeth Hussain

I argued in my last article that the world is becoming a unit, and that what happens inside a country today carries with it an external dimension to a far greater extent than it did in 1983. I argued further that the Sri Lankan Muslims have no alternative to using that external dimension to safeguard their lives and legitimate interests. …

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Jon Snow Gaza video backed by Channel 4 – By: Jason Deans

Jon Snow’s video was filmed in the Channel 4 News studio and is understood to have been shot after he returned to London from Gaza Channel 4 has backed Jon Snow’s unusually direct and emotional online video about the Gaza conflict and revealed that it prompted one child to write to the UK foreign secretary. In the video, published on …

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Sri Lanka’s Agony – By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Hate-mongering Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka have set off the country’s worst wave of anti-Muslim violence in years. A bloody rampage on June 15 in and near the southern city of Aluthgama left four Muslims dead, at least 78 people injured, and Muslim homes and businesses destroyed. The attacks followed an anti-Muslim rally organized by the Bodu Bala Sena, which …

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Why ISIS’ dream of a caliphate is fading away – By: Asiff Hussein

ISIS’ hopes of establishing an Islamic Caliphate is fast fading away as they choose to tread an extremist path, committing unspeakable acts that undermine their legitimacy in the eyes of Muslims everywhere The idea of a Caliphate needless to say evokes strong sentiments among Muslims in this day and age when regimes like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have proven themselves …

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PERCEIVED TERROR AND REAL TERRORISM

Hameed Abdul Karim   ‘The big question is if I live in Gaza would I fire a rocket? – Probably yes’ -David Ward British MP   Going by reports in the western press and listening to Israel’s spin doctors like Mark Regev on BBC and CNN you might get the impression that history of the Middle East conflict began just …

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