Opinion & Features
Freedom of Expression or Freedom to incite Hatred and Violence?
Lucy J. Aguilar || 30 October 2020 As a neutral (non-Muslim and non-religious) world citizen, I’m indignant at the media’s pathetic attempt to garner public sympathy by portraying Charlie Hebdo as a staunch defender of the freedom of expression, […]
Killing for the sake of something called … ART: The Charlie Hebdo Affair
Shabbir Akhtar || 1stOct 2020 The trial of a dozen French Muslims, accused of complicity in the Charlie Hebdo killings, has started. The French artistic elite repeat their mantra: ‘Relax: it is only satire.’ But why should we not take […]
Beirut Blast
Chandra Muzaffar || 9 August 2020 Four days after the Beirut Blast of 4th August 2020, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, has attempted to explain what caused the largest explosion since the end of the Second World War. He […]
Freedom of Religion and the Covid-19 Pandemic
By Emeritus Prof Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi | 5th May 2020 Any place on earth can be a mosque and prayer can be offered wherever there is the presence of God. The movement restriction order is preventing us […]
Who deserves an apology?
Jacqueline Ann Surin || 22 March 2020 After chairing his first cabinet meeting on 11 March, Muhyiddin Yassin revealed that he had written to Dr Mahathir Mohamad to ask for his forgiveness. Hoping that hurt feelings could be put […]
TIME TO EMPOWER VOTERS TO RECALL POLITICAL FROGS
Thomas Fann || 18 March 2020 As the political drama unfolded on 23rd February 2020 with the “Sheraton Move” that saw the eventual collapse of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government that was elected less than two years ago at the […]
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February-20 March 2020 Agenda items 2 and 7 Database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the […]
Mercy or No Mercy for Xinjiang’s Muslims!
Ghulam Farooque Kaka || 2 January 2020 Xinjiang is so called an autonomous region of China, located in the far northwest of the country. It is resource-rich territory bordering with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Largely populated with Turkic speaking […]
What can the Muslim world do to save the Uighurs and Islam in China?
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi || 15th December 2019 Between Aug. 16 and Aug. 25, I was in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China. Invited by the State Council Information Office of China and Xinjiang, I was part of a group […]
Persecution of Shias An Assault to Human Rights
The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) reads: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit […]
