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Podcast: Why Should Muslims Fight for Human Rights?

Muslim Matters - 29 February, 2024 - 11:00


Why should Muslims fight for human rights? Isn’t it all a rigged game and pointless? Hena Zuberi, human rights activist, talks to Zainab bint Younus about the Islamic importance of fighting for human rights, and the price Muslims in the West must pay for their privileges.

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Victorian premier cancels iftar dinner after boycott announced by peak Muslim bodies

The Guardian World news: Islam - 29 February, 2024 - 02:37

Jacinta Allan says event will not go ahead out of respect to those in the community that grieving over the war in Gaza

The Victorian government has cancelled its annual iftar dinner after the state’s peak body for Muslims and other community groups announced they would not attend the event due to Labor’s position on the war in Gaza.

The premier, Jacinta Allan, confirmed next month’s event would not go ahead out of respect to those in the Victorian Muslim community who were grieving.

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Day 145 roundtable: John Mearsheimer, resistance and famine

Electronic Intifada - 28 February, 2024 - 22:45

Journalist Abubaker Abed live from the Gaza Strip (0:44); John Mearsheimer on US policy on Israel (21:26); Nora Barrows-Friedman with a news update (01:09:59); Ali Abunimah on recent developments in New York Times’ “mass rapes” hoax (01:23:47); and military analysis by Jon Elmer (01:40:29).

Sadiq Khan faces death threats from Islamist extremists, source says

The Guardian World news: Islam - 27 February, 2024 - 20:10

News comes days after London mayor, who has round-the-clock police protection due to terrorist threats, is accused of being under Islamist control

The mayor of London has faced death threats from Islamist extremists, the Guardian has learned in the same week he was accused by a former senior Tory MP of being under their control.

Sadiq Khan has been receiving police protection, usually reserved for a handful of senior cabinet ministers or royals, since 2017.

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Podcast: Gaza’s Strength, Our Weakness | Shaykha Zaynab Ansari

Muslim Matters - 27 February, 2024 - 16:21


How can we remain firm in our faith in light of everything we are witnessing from Palestine? Shaykha Zaynab Ansari provides insight and guidance on how Muslims can spiritually and emotionally process the genocide in Gaza, understanding Qadaa’ and Qadr, and explaining what it means to be patient but not passive in the face of injustice. Tune into this episode for a powerful spiritual reminder of what it means to hold tight to our belief in Allah’s Ultimate Wisdom in a devastating time of catastrophe.

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Tuesday briefing: Behind the Conservative party’s failure to address Islamophobia

The Guardian World news: Islam - 27 February, 2024 - 06:56

In today’s newsletter: As suspended backbencher Lee Anderson launches a fresh attack, a former Tory MEP explains how the party got here

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Good morning. Your 7am Lee Anderson update: still not apologised. The reason, he said yesterday, is that “when you think you are right you should never apologise, because to do so would be a sign of weakness”.

Others might feel that the weaknesses of Anderson’s position are apparent enough already. In any case, the Conservatives remain in crisis over his claims that Islamists had “got control” of Sadiq Khan, and their tepid response since he was suspended.

Budget | Jeremy Hunt’s financial planning is “dubious” and “lacks credibility” and the chancellor should not announce tax cuts in next week’s budget if he cannot lay out how he will fund them, an economic thinktank has said. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculates that a spending freeze to fund pre-election giveaways would mean about £35bn in public service cuts.

Israel-Gaza war | Joe Biden has said he believes a new, temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is possible by next Monday. The US president offered the update spontaneously during a visit to New York yesterday, in response to reporters inquiring about when he expected a ceasefire could start.

Russia | Alexei Navalny’s allies allege that Vladimir Putin had the opposition leader killed in jail to sabotage a prisoner swap in which Navalny would have been exchanged for a convicted hitman jailed in Germany. Maria Pevchikh, a close ally of the opposition leader, said Navalny was only days from being freed.

US news | An active-duty member of the US air force has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, while shouting “Free Palestine””. 25-year-old airman Aaron Bushnell said on a livestream that he would “no longer be complicit in genocide”.”

Education | Labour has said it will help schools to train young male influencers who can counter the negative impact of people like Andrew Tate, a self-declared misogynist influencer, if it wins the next election. The party announced plans to pupils how to question the material they see on social media from people like Tate.

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Sunak says no Islamophobia issues in Tory party despite Anderson remarks

The Guardian World news: Islam - 26 February, 2024 - 09:13

PM says prejudice unacceptable but refuses to address anti-Muslim concerns after comments about London mayor

Rishi Sunak has denied that the Conservative party has a problem with Islamophobia after Lee Anderson’s comments about Sadiq Khan, continuing to label them as “wrong” rather than prejudiced.

During a round of BBC local radio interviews to promote spending moved from HS2 to local transport projects, the prime minister was quizzed on Anderson’s claim that the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, was controlled by Islamists, remarks for which he lost the Conservative whip.

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Africa’s largest mosque inaugurated in Algeria after years of delays

The Guardian World news: Islam - 26 February, 2024 - 08:14

Prayer room of Great Mosque of Algiers, beset by political wrangling and cost overruns, accommodates 120,000 people

Algeria has inaugurated a gigantic mosque on its Mediterranean coastline after years of political upheaval transformed the project from a symbol of state-sponsored strength and religiosity to one of delays and cost overruns.

Built by a Chinese construction firm throughout the 2010s, the Great Mosque of Algiers features the world’s tallest minaret, measuring 265 metres (869ft).

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Muslim group calls for Tory inquiry into party’s ‘structural Islamophobia’

The Guardian World news: Islam - 25 February, 2024 - 16:59

Muslim Council of Britain writes to Conservative chair over comments made by Liz Truss, Lee Anderson and Suella Braverman

Britain’s largest Muslim group has written to the Conservative party to call for an investigation into “structural Islamophobia” within the party’s ranks.

In a letter addressed to the Conservative chair, Richard Holden, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said Islamophobia in the party was “institutional, tolerated by the leadership and seen as acceptable by great swathes of the party membership”.

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Podcast: Sitti’s Key: A Palestinian Tale | Sahar Khader

Muslim Matters - 25 February, 2024 - 11:00

Sahar Khader, the author of children’s Palestinian book “Sitti’s Key,” talks about the importance of telling Palestinian stories, the challenges of getting published as a Palestinian author, and and the mainstream publishing industry’s censorship of Palestinian voices. During this time of intense suppression in the midst of the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, don’t forget how important it is to uplift Palestinian voices!

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