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Iman Benabdelsadouk Do not say of those who are killed in the cause of God, “They are dead.” They are alive at their Lord, but you do not perceive [2:154] The camera is a weapon in the anti-colonial struggle for liberation. It does not just record – it exposes. It bears witness to what the […]
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Vox Ummah Team On 6 August 2025, authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir issued an order to ban and seize 25 books, including works by Kashmiri, Indian, and international authors, claiming they “glorify terrorism” and “incite secessionism” in the region. Among the banned titles are Azadi by Arun
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Marwa Yousuf K. A Crisis of Visibility Sincerity was once defined by absence: the absence of applause, of performance, of self-consciousness. To be sincere – in worship, in speech, in dāʿwah. It was to move quietly, to act for the sake of Allah alone, even when no one was watching. Especially when
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Minelle Ali A day before Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian’s official state visit to Pakistan, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi penned an article titled “A Shared Future” in the Pakistani newspaper The Nation. A foreign minister of one country writing an article for another’s isn’t just a casual o
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Viktor Vaughn “…bring about the freedom of these people by any means necessary. That’s our motto. We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.” Shortly after El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, formerly known as Malcolm X, left the Na
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Tabraiz K. “We were never meant to survive. And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain… So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.” – Audre Lorde, “A Litany For Survival” We were never meant to survive the empire performing for it. And yet here we […]
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Shaniyat Turani The killing of Gaza’s most prominent reporter is not just the silencing of a voice — it is an attack on the very act of bearing witness, aided by the silence of Western media and the complicity of Arab regimes. Anas al-Sharif once read the names of his own family killed in an […]
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Hur Qassemi “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Vladimir Lenin taught us regarding the kinetics of historical change. Certain events have the potential to unleash vast stores of fury against the status quo and expose the mechanisms of global power. Th
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Sim Zahra Permission ˹to fight back˺ is ˹hereby˺ granted to those being fought, for they have been wronged And Allah is truly Most Capable of helping them ˹prevail.˺ (Quran, 22:39). Jihad is an obligatory act in Islam, mainly when one is subjected to life-threatening aggression by usurping forces. J
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Mar Yousuf K. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, two nations emerged from the carcass of British India: Pakistan, conceived as a homeland for South Asia’s Muslims, forged through political struggle and colonial betrayal; and India, which prided itself on being secular and inherited the li
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Julia Kassem More than just virtue signaling, the latest calls to ‘establish a Palestinian state’ are a call to disarm the Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance. Top European capitals, including the E3, are now calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state by September. Macron, in a letter to t
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Musa Iqbal Recent moves by Western governments to recognize Palestinian statehood come as a welcome development, but the conditions that accompany statehood reveal a lot more about the crumbling state of the Israeli occupation, the devastating blow to the so-called U.S. “rules based order,” and con