By Farhana Ismail A recent tour of South Africa by controversial preacher-scholar Bilal Abu Ameenah Philips has exposed the vast gap experienced by South African Muslims, between social reality and religious legal doctrine- a gap…

Imam Dr. A. Rashied Omar Since the tragic school shootings in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018, which left 17 people dead and maimed at least 14 others, there has been a growing student led…

By Imraan Buccus A few weeks ago we observed Robert Sobukwe week. Sobukwe was an extraordinary human being, a global visionary, teacher, political leader and philosopher who was kept in solitary confinement for six years…

By Aslam Fataar This khutba offers an Islamic perspective in response to the call for decolonisation made by students at our country’s universities. Decolonisation calls for awareness of complex contradictions in our country, and directs…

Narendra Modi’s reputation as a war monger precedes his current position as the leader of the “world’s largest democracy”, writes Iqbal Jassat Generations of Kashmir’s population have waited in vain for an end to India’s…

By Imraan Buccus The Ramaphosa Spring is in glorious bloom. There is, finally, the beginnings of a real reckoning with the vile corruption of the Guptas and the massive looting at Eskom. For the first…

By Imraan Buccus Today, February 2nd, 28 years ago, the course of South African history was altered. FW de Klerk certainly did not take a suicidal leap of faith on February 2, 1990 because he…

For many Muslims who unwittingly identified with the Saudi Kingdom as being representative of Islam, the dictatorship has been exposed for its hypocritical stance on Palestine – and it comes as a rude shock, writes…