As Israeli forces attack and invade Al Aqsa mosque on the holiest nights of the holy month, I will repeat what I have previously said about Palestine. Israel and its extreme supporters appear to be able to do anything to the Palestinian people and few in the world would care or act. The occupied Palestinian...
The Muslim world today consists of 53 Muslim majority nation states and around 1.8 billion people. Millions of Muslims also live as minorities in non-Muslim majority states. The global Ummah includes people of different cultures, ethnicities, and tribes. There are millions of Muslims being persecuted around the world, many living as refugees or displaced people....
1. Write to Muslim Embassy’s and your Member of Parliament asking them to call for immediate access to the “reducation camps” in China, by the United Nations. 2. Call for the cancellation of the winter Olympics 2022 being held in China in the mainstream/social media, Write letters to editors of newspapers. 3. Write to your...
In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, the Maldives, Mauritania, Senegal, Djibouti, the Comoros, Jordan, the Tobruk -based Libyan government, and the Hadi -led Yemeni government broke diplomatic relations with Qatar. Air flights, sea and land routes from Qatar were closed. Qatar has staunchly resisted caving into Saudi and Emirati demands, which...
Today marks the public launch of our new global think tank on Muslim affairs, with the express intention of trying to work towards creating a better Muslim world. A world that is free from conflict, division, hatred, and suffering. The Ayaan vision is to see a Muslim world that is united, independent, prosperous, and strong;...
President Macron said that Islam was in crisis around the world and in need of liberation. Islam as a religion is not in need of liberation, but it is true that the politics of the Muslim world is in crisis and certainly needs liberating. But if only he, and European establishments, could remove the colonial...
Violence played a key role in the build-up to and aftermath of the French Revolution (May 1789). Those who supported the overthrow of the monarchy and its state resorted to “popular violence” to overthrow the existing system, and also to defend themselves from the ruling system’s oppressive response to demands for political change; as well...
There is no Muslim Brotherhood or Muslim plot to take over Europe or subvert its values. Like the Protocols, it is a conspiracy theory. Anti-Islamic and Muslim hate is deliberately generated political propaganda by states and groups to achieve political goals. It is the deliberate demonisation and dehumanisation of a people, just as it once...
In Europe and the U.S., the demonisation of the Muslim Brotherhood via “plots to take over the world” have already been normalised. Media articles, interviews, think tank publications, politicians, and even terrorism/extremism experts sing from the same hymn sheet. Syed Qutb has replaced Karl Marx as the ideologue behind the movement to take over the...
In 2011, mass movements of desperate ordinary people, trying to survive and calling for some basic needs and dignity, emerged in the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood, whilst not the instigators of the uprisings, benefited and emerged as the only group capable of organising an alternative to the status quo. The elders of the Brotherhood...
