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Killing for the sake of something called … ART: The Charlie Hebdo Affair
Shabbir Akhtar || 1stOct 2020 The trial of a dozen French Muslims, accused of complicity in the Charlie Hebdo killings, has started. The French artistic elite repeat their mantra: ‘Relax: it is only satire.’ But why should we not take […]

Beirut Blast
Chandra Muzaffar || 9 August 2020 Four days after the Beirut Blast of 4th August 2020, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, has attempted to explain what caused the largest explosion since the end of the Second World War. He […]

An Interview with the International Quran News Agency (IQNA) on Ali Shariati in commemorating the 43rd Anniversary of his death | 18th June 2020
Prologue Ali Shariati, (born 23rd November 1933, Mazīnān, Iran—died 18th June, 1977, England), Iranian intellectual and critic of the regime of the Reza Shah Pahlawi. Ali Shariati developed a new perspective on the history and sociology of Islam and gave highly charged lectures in Tehrān […]
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February-20 March 2020 Agenda items 2 and 7 Database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the […]

Freedom of Religion and the Covid-19 Pandemic
By Emeritus Prof Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi | 5th May 2020 Any place on earth can be a mosque and prayer can be offered wherever there is the presence of God. The movement restriction order is preventing us […]

COMING ‘COLD WAR’ BETWEEN THE USA AND CHINA, IF IT ESCALATES INTO AN ARMED CONFLICT, MAY RESULT IN THE COLLAPSE OF MODERN CIVILIZATION
By Osman Softic Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina || 2nd May 2020 The imminent return of China to the forefront of the world economy, according to Kishore Mahbubani, will not be able to be stopped even by the latest pandemic […]

Who deserves an apology?
Jacqueline Ann Surin || 22 March 2020 After chairing his first cabinet meeting on 11 March, Muhyiddin Yassin revealed that he had written to Dr Mahathir Mohamad to ask for his forgiveness. Hoping that hurt feelings could be put […]

TIME TO EMPOWER VOTERS TO RECALL POLITICAL FROGS
Thomas Fann || 18 March 2020 As the political drama unfolded on 23rd February 2020 with the “Sheraton Move” that saw the eventual collapse of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government that was elected less than two years ago at the […]
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February-20 March 2020 Agenda items 2 and 7 Database of all business enterprises involved in the activities detailed in paragraph 96 of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the […]

BFM 89.9 Interview: AMANAH’s POLITICAL IDENTITY CRISIS
Transcript for BFM Talk – AMANAH’s Political Identity Crisis Dato Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa, Chairman and Director of Islamic Renaissance Front, and an academic researcher with the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences at Monash University Malaysia. What […]