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INTERNATIONAL AL QUDS DAY – The last Friday of every Ramadan
Osman Softic || 27 March 2025 Tomorrow, the last Friday of Ramadan 1446, we commemorate International Al-Quds Day. The uniquely important Day of Solidarity of the Muslim Ummah around the world with Al-Quds, the Holy Land of Palestine, and by […]

Why is Europe Opposed to Peace in Ukraine while Washington is pursuing Rapprochement and Normalization with Russia? – Part II
Osman Softić || 25 March 2025 From Trump’s perspective, a continuation of America’s support for Ukraine in its war effort is not only a waste of money and equipment but it also causes disproportionate damage that Washington suffers compared […]

MKI: Sebuah Penghinaan terhadap Kebebasan Berekspresi – Kenyataan daripada Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) berkenaan pengharaman buku oleh MKI
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 23 Mac 2025 Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham Kami merujuk kepada kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia (MKI) bertarikh 20 Mac 2025. Dua buku terjemahan Bahasa Melayu yang diterbitkan oleh […]

MKI: An Affront to Freedom of Expression – Statement by the Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) on the books banned by MKI ||
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 23 March 2025 We refer to the statement issued by Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia (MKI) dated 20 March 2025. Two books published by the IRF namely the Malay translation of Ahmet […]

Why is Europe Opposed to Peace in Ukraine while Washington is pursuing Rapprochement and Normalization with Russia? -Part I
Osman Softić || 17 March 2025 US President Donald Trump, his unconventional maverick personality notwithstanding, and his rather peculiar undiplomatic ways of conducting statecraft that markedly deviated from conventional norms and even logic itself, (especially due to his disturbing rhetoric […]

Decoding Western Moral Dissonance – Part II
By Osman Softic || 21 February 2025 The political intricacies This fact ought to be kept in mind when reflecting on complexities and internal intricacies that plague the Palestinian question. Mahmoud Abbas has recently signed a decree to end […]

Decoding Western Moral Dissonance – Part I
By Osman Softic || 19 February 2025 The entire global community was outraged by irrational and offensive bluster the US president Donald Trump uttered when he boasted with a brilliant idea for reinventing Gaza’s dystopian future, which he apparently […]

HAMAS-Israel Ceasefire Deal: Strategic Victory for the Resistance but a Long Way Ahead for a Lasting Peace
By Osman Softić || 20 January 2025 The Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal finally began to come into force on January 20. 2025. after many failed attempts by negotiators, under the auspices of Qatar, Egypt and the US, to reach a […]

Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part III
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 14 January 2025 Asad’s Qur’ānic Hermeneutics “The Most Gracious has imparted this Qur’an [unto man]. He has created man: He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech” [Sura ar-Rahmān; 55:1-4] (Asad, 2013, p. 986) […]

Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part II
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 8 January 2025 Asad’s odyssey across the Muslim world In early summer of 1924, Muhammad Asad was on the move again. He travelled to Amman, to Damascus, Tripoli and Aleppo, to Baghdad and to the […]