Unity Squandered by State Selfishness: The International Aftermath of the 1973 War with Israel
Post

Unity Squandered by State Selfishness: The International Aftermath of the 1973 War with Israel

After a fleeting moment of Muslim Co-operation in the 1973 War with Israel, Ibrahim Moiz examines how inter-state rivalries and seeking US patronage led to the dissipation of the Palestinian cause.  Unity Squandered by State Selfishness: The International Aftermath of the 1973 War with Israel October 2023 marked fifty years since the most signal feat...

The Autumn 1973 War with Israel: Redemption and Realignment
Post

The Autumn 1973 War with Israel: Redemption and Realignment

Ibrahim Moiz looks back on a rare moment of Arab and Muslim unity in Yom Kippur War against Israel in 1973. The Autumn 1973 War with Israel: Redemption and Realignment Judaism’s holiday of Yom Kippur in the year 1973 happened to fall within the Islamic month of Ramadan. Early on that morning, the Israeli occupation...

Gaza – food and medicine are no defence against bombs and bullets
Post

Gaza – food and medicine are no defence against bombs and bullets

Jahangir Mohammed of the Ayaan Institute argues that food and medicines will not end Palestinian slaughter. Only a political settlement and end to the ideology of European Jewish supremacy and US imperialism can end political violence in the region. In the present conflict he believes Israel may effectively annex Gaza and the West Bank.  GAZA:...

Has Imran Khan Played His Last Innings for Pakistan?
Post

Has Imran Khan Played His Last Innings for Pakistan?

Imran Khan became a Pakistani cricketing legend who transformed international cricket with his call for neutral umpires. Jahangir Mohammed argues that he has already changed Pakistani politics and put all of Pakistan’s institutions on trial. He is also destined to become a political legend, no matter how his innings comes to an end. Has Imran...

The French Exploitation of Africa Must Come to An End
Post

The French Exploitation of Africa Must Come to An End

In the aftermath of the military coup in Niger and the French threat to intervene, Jahangir Mohammed calls for all those genuinely concerned about Africa to work toward ending the ongoing exploitation of former African colonial states. The French Exploitation of Africa Must Come to An End A military coup in Niger overthrowing the pro-Western...

Remembering Srebrenica 20 years later as it should be
Post

Remembering Srebrenica 20 years later as it should be

An article from 2015 by Jahangir Mohammed Director of the Ayaan Institute on the Bosnian Muslim genocide in Srebrenica on its 20 year anniversary. The massacring of eight thousand unarmed Bosnian Muslim men in Srebrenica is no distant memory, and is full of lessons for Britain and its Muslim minority. It was a genocide against the...

Is Israel becoming a theocratic Zionist state?
Post

Is Israel becoming a theocratic Zionist state?

Jahangir Mohammed writes that Israel is transforming from a secular Zionist state toward a theocratic Zionist state, and that is not what secular European Jews or their Western backers envisaged or wanted. Israel at 75: Toward A Religious Zionist State. The state of Israel marks its 75th anniversary this week. Meanwhile, Palestinians and Arabs will...

Are Muslims in Britain morally bound to pledge allegiance to King Charles III on his Coronation?
Post

Are Muslims in Britain morally bound to pledge allegiance to King Charles III on his Coronation?

Yahya Birt Research Director at the Ayaan Institute looks at the history of the oath of allegiance to British monarchs, and questions whether Muslims are bound to swear allegiance to King Charles III At Saturday’s Coronation, the watching millions will be offered the chance to take a voluntary pledge of allegiance to King Charles III. Yahya Birt...

The Bloom Review Wants the State to Regulate Britain’s Non-Christian Minorities
Post

The Bloom Review Wants the State to Regulate Britain’s Non-Christian Minorities

Yahya Birt argues that the Independent Review of “How Government Engages with Faith” by Colin Bloom is disappointing and disproportionately focuses on Britain’s non-Christian religious minorities, with proposed further extensions of counter-extremism measures into Muslim civil society. The Bloom Review Wants the State to Regulate Britain’s Non-Christian Minorities First commissioned in 2019, the much-delayed review...