Since the start of July, the youth of Bangladesh have been taking a stand against the corrupt and oppressive regime of Sheikh Hasina. As of July 23, 2024, news outlets report that nearly 150 people – mostly demonstrators – have been killed by the regime. However, observers say that these numbers likely represent the floor ...

There is no need to describe the situation in Gaza. We have all seen and heard the stories of the tens of thousands of people killed, with a large proportion of them children. We know of the nearly 2 million displaced, with no place to call home. The names of Hind Rajab, Rafat al Areer, ...

 

 

For the past few weeks, we have witnessed an unprecedented level of carnage leveled against our brothers and sisters in Gaza. According to Al-Jazeera, the Zionist entity claimed that it dropped 6,000 bombs weighing 4,000 tonnes on Gaza in the first six days of its bombing campaign. Marc Garlasco (former U.N. war crimes investigator in ...

At the beginning of this month, as French schoolchildren were preparing to return for their classes, the French education minister announced that it would not longer be possible for anyone to wear an abaya in schools. The stated reason is to protect laïcité or secularism in French public schools. The minister indicated that no one ...

Today, Canadians are facing new waves of economic uncertainty. Record-breaking inflation is driving up the costs of essentials such as food and gas. Real-estate prices are reaching new heights, making housing ownership more expensive. The recent spread of the Omicron variant is casting doubt on the recent economic uplift. Overall, the situation is leaving people ...

As reported on the CBC, the “Ford government removed approximately 2,995 hectares of land from the Greenbelt in December [2022], while adding land elsewhere, to build 50,000 homes. The Greenbelt is a vast 810,000-hectare area of farmland, forest and wetland stretching from Niagara Falls to Peterborough that was meant to be off-limits to development. Very ...

Umar ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, said: “We are a people whom Allah has honored with Islam, so whenever we seek honor through anything other than Islam, Allah humiliates us.” In another narration attributed to him, he said: “We are a people whom Allah has honored with Islam, so we do not ...

On Eid al Adha this year, an Iraqi refugee in Sweden went outside the largest masjid in the country wearing two Swedish flags, blaring the national anthem, and   proceeded to desecrate the Quran. He tore pages out, burned them, and placed bacon in the Quran. This action was not spontaneous. Rather, the refugee had ...