On January 28th several world leaders gathered in London to plan their next steps in the failed campaign in Afghanistan.While the drums of war have started beating over Yemen (the subject of our feature article this issue), the latest Afghani surge is still to be implemented and the chaos of Iraq is hardly settled. Muslims take no solace in the failure of these appalling military adventures, particularly as a key objective of them is to dampen and destroy the path forward to the re-establishment of the Caliphate throughout the Muslim …

We wish all our readers the warmest Eid greetings and Hajj Mubarak to those that made Hajj – may Allah accept from all of them, and the sacrifice from all of us in this blessed month.
Sadly, it is not only the slaughter of animals remembered in this month.The global war on Islam has escalated, with a war in Waziristan joining the on-going bloodshed in the rest of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. But, there are clear signs of desperation amongst leaders of the colonial power.
There is an escalating body of opinion …

As Muslims feel sorrow at the passing of our faithful friend, the blessed month of Ramadhan, we also feel joy at the coming of Eid.
Ramadhan is the month we have remembered Allah and, inshallah, become closer to Him through fasting, recitation of the Quran, and standing in nightly prayer. It’s also a month – just like the month of Dhul Hijja, where Muslims feel united as one Ummah.
But for so many years Ramadhan and Eid have been tinged with sadness as our Ummah suffers under occupation, oppression, poverty and hardship.The …

The Struggle for Islam and Call for Khilafah
Assalamu alaikum
For years now we have seen an almost constant attack on Islam by politicians and the media in the west.There has been very little respite since we saw the desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo Bay, the calls for it to be banned in Holland, the banning of Hijab in France, the attack on Niqab by a British government minister, and the slandering of RasulAllah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) in pictorial and written form, to name but a few examples. Most recently we …

Rebranding the ‘War on Terror’
In April 2009 former British prime minister Tony Blair made a speech justifying military intervention and colonialism in order to crush the global Islamic revival. He called for the military occupation of Afghanistan to continue “until the job is done” and interference in Pakistan’s education system to counter the rise in Islamic values.
But while Blair openly exposed that the ‘war on terror’ is actually a war on Islam,Western governments have desperately trying to change the image of their colonial and, frankly, murderous foreign policy.They have …

Asalamu alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatahu
We wish sincere blessings of Eid for all our readers. We pray Allah accepts the Hajj of all those who made pilgrimage and the sacrifice of all who sacrificed.
In this most blessed month the world has been shaken by the Mumbai attacks. Like 9/11 before the secondary political fallout looks set to continue well beyond the time that such events usually do in India – a country that is no stranger to political violence, having lost one Prime Minister to Sikh separatists and one to …

THE HUMAN CRISIS
Global Capitalism has faced no lack of criticism since its inception, always controversial and never dull. From Das Kapital in the 19th century to the Anti-Globalisation movement in the late 20th century, there has been no shortage of predictions that the Global capitalism system was about to fail, on its last legs hoisted by its own petard of excess and greed.
Some may try to argue that the crisis of September/October 2008 is not the end for capitalism. They will argue this was a bubble, like many before. However, …

‘British Islam’: The UK Government Policy to manufacture a new religion
The British Government has a current policy to manufacture a new religion. They call it ‘British Islam’. Former Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly talked about a ‘British Version of Islam’. A paper by the Department of Communities and Local Government titled “The Role of Muslim Identity Politics in Radicalisation” mentions how the government would like to use “British Islam as a response to radical Islam”. In July 2008 the Foreign Office boasted how it was sending a delegation on a ‘tabligh’ …

Asalaamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatahu
We welcome you to the re-launch of Khilafah magazine. We pray Allah swt accepts it from us and that you appreciate its slim line digestible size. The magazine makes reappearance in a very different time from before. The past three years have seen a relentless media and political onslaught against Islam that started with accusations of violence and terrorism against Muslims, labelling some as moderate and some extremist. But it has now descended into a full blown attack on Islam itself – upon the aqueedah …