With growing fears that South African youth are becoming sympathetic to the violent and misguided brand of Islam propagated by the Islamic State (IS) or ISIS, a new youth organisation is mobilising young people to tackle this contemporary Islamic challenge. Muslim Youth United (MYU) was established in Ramadan of 2014[…]
Ramadan has been a heart-wrenching time for the Bassiouni family, as they grapple with the reality of their beloved father and ustaadh spending the most sacred month of the year inside prison. Shaykh Abdus Salaam Bassiouni, an Egyptian-South African citizen, was arrested in December last year on suspicion that he[…]
The Touwsriver Islamic Society is appealing to the community to aid them in their project to construct a mosque in the Laingsburg area. The society has recently purchased a property with an incomplete building on it with the hopes of transforming the building into a mosque for the community of[…]
As South Africans continue to debate the Farlam Commission’s report on the Marikana massacre, Africa Check says President Jacob Zuma’s summary of the findings, televised live last week, did not address did not adequately reflect the main points in the report. Zuma is facing renewed criticism after the release of[…]
University of Cape Town SRC chairperson Ramabina Mahapa said on Wednesday they have always supported the rights of minorities and specifically the gay community. Around 20 UCT students staged a brief sit-in of the university’s SRC offices on Tuesday following controversial comments made by an SRC representative regarding LGBT rights.[…]
Frans Matlala has been appointed as the SABC’s new chief executive officer, saying “I need to acknowledge the honour I’ve been given”. Frans Matlala, a consultant to the public broadcaster for project management and strategic advisory services, has been a keen supporter of the SABC’s controversial and famously matric-less chief[…]
At least 64 Egyptian soldiers were killed as radicals launched multiple attacks on targets in the northern Sinai peninsula, Egyptian officials said. Egyptian army spokesman Muhammad Samir said that 70 radicals attacked five military checkpoints in the northern Sinai, with 22 killed in gun battles with Egyptian troops. The army[…]
Israel has arrested 40 Hamas members in the Nablus area who it claims were plotting attacks against it. The Hamas group’s leaders were working to renew Hamas activy in the West Bank, the Israeli security agency Shin Bet told the Jerusalem Post. The arrests reportedly took place over the past[…]
China’s military has vowed to bring “modern civilisation” to the country’s largely Muslim Uighur Xinjiang region, where separatists have been working towards establishing an independent state. The region’s military commander and his aide wrote in an influential journal on Tuesday that the army must help develop the economy of the[…]
Two South Africans who were part of a team of activists attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip in Palestine by boat, will return home on Wednesday morning, the National Coalition for Palestine (NC4P) said. University of KwaZulu-Natal academic‚ theologian and activist Chris Le Bruyns and Ismail Moola, one[…]
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