“I was astounded that someone of that kind of pedigree could sign on for something like that, which would be an anathema to the very teachers he revered.” This was the view of U.S-based academic, Prof Ebrahim Moosa, who on Monday addressed claims he has received death threats from the[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat “Israel is technically defenseless and humiliated” claims Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today. Duff, a US Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War, writes that it is not conjecture and while not a positive prospect for peace, is entirely the result of Netanyahu’s scheming. He[…]
OPINION by Ebrahim Moosa – When we studied together at a madrassa, Rashid Moosagie had a very low opinion of my politics. I was disenchanted by the academic, abstract nature of our curriculum at the Deoband seminary, some 100 miles from New Delhi, where I was enrolled in 1978; I[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has blown up a 2,000-year-old temple in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, a rights group and the country’s antiquities chief have said. Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria’s antiquities chief, said the group placed a large quantity of explosives in the temple[…]
A blast triggered by a suicide bomber has killed 15 people at a mosque inside a special forces headquarters in Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. An interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday that the “terrorist” attack took place during noon prayers in the city of Abha, in the southern[…]
The US has launched its first drone strikes at northern Syria from a Turkish airbase, the Pentagon has reported. This comes as Washington struck a deal to use the base in its fight against Islamic State. A spokesman for Pentagon said on Wednesday that an unmanned drone was launched on Monday[…]
In an unprecedented move in the battle to contain an Islamic State insurgency in Northern Iraq and Syria, Turkey has finally approved a deal that will allow the United States to launch airstrikes from a key military base in the southern part of the country. The decision represents a major[…]
A year on from the launch of Israel’s brutal military assault on Gaza, Palestinians in the coastal enclave are still struggling to pick up the pieces. Their hopes of returning to a sense of normality continue to be hindered by an Israeli-enforced blockade that has limited aid and construction supplies[…]
OPINION by Suraya Dadoo For over three months, Saudi Arabia, backed by a coalition of Arab countries, and with logistical and arms support from the US and UK, has been bombing Yemen on an almost daily basis in a campaign against the Houthis – a rebel Shia group that has[…]
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[…]
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