The recent political assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai has raised the issue of state terrorism – Governments using cold-blooded murder to eliminate political opponents. The specter of state sponsored killings harks back to an age of lawlessness where the law of the jungle reigns supreme. Intelligence agencies, spy drones, car bombs are just some of the means states have used to kill political adversaries and with them family members, wives and children as well as bystanders. Such assassinations avoid due process and the rule of law: holding trials, calling …

86 years ago, in March 1924, we witnessed the demise of the Khilafah and the establishment of colonial rule in Muslim lands.

On Wednesday 3rd February 2010, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a scientist

In the hit Fox TV thriller “24” Counter Terrorism agent Jack Bauer

Governments around the world welcomed in the second decade

in which women come together globally to celebrate the political, social and economic inroads that women have made in the last century. It is an official holiday in China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The UN gave it official recognition in 1975.
At the turn of the 20th century women began to see the fruits of their battle to gain the right to vote; and following a conference for working women in 1910 in Copenhagen, Clara Zetkin, (leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) spearheaded …

In the aftermath of the alleged failed terror plot to target a US airliner involving the Nigerian born Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab the finger of blame has most surprisingly been pointed at Yemen. Up until now the world had become used to American and British government rhetoric blaming ‘terrorists’ based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region at every opportunity.
Prior to this alleged incident the recent attack at the Fort Hood base was also tied to Yemen. On this occasion it again seems that it is Yemen’s turn. British Prime Minster Gordon …

Images from the aftermath of last Wednesday’s magnitude seven earthquake in Haiti vividly highlight the huge human tragedy and desperation of the survivors. Such events remind us all of human frailty and weakness while Allah (swt) remains the All Powerful. Disasters like these should remind us all of yawn al-qiyama (the day of judgement) and should make us more obedient to Allah (swt).
When the earth is shaken with its (final) earthquake. [TMQ Az-Zalzalah 99:1]
Islam also teaches us that these disasters are a test for us to see whether we rush …

Right-wing think tanks linked to political power in the United States were the recipe for the global war on terror.

There are more than 50 chapters in the Qur’an that mention various stories of the Prophets.