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Public Caning for Close proximity: A Blight on Islam – Islamic Renaissance Front
Arief Subhan & Ahmad Farouk Musa – 30 December 2024 We read the multiple reports on the public caning of a man over the offence of being in close proximity with a non-family member of the opposite sex with […]

Berzikir dan berdo’a beramai-ramai sesudah solat itu apakah sunnah atau bid’ah?
Ahmad Farouk Musa & Manan Razali || 12 Disember 2024 Sesungguhnya Nabi telah mengingatkan kepada kita bahawa akan datang satu zaman di mana akan terdapat pertelingkahan yang amat dahsyat dan di ketika itu hendaklah kita berpegang kepada as-sunnah. Masalah […]

The fall of the Assad regime – How designated terrorists suddenly became democrats
Osman Softic || 11 December 2024 The Syrian armed rebels led and dominated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – Committee for the Liberation of Levant (originally known as Al Qaeda- which had later been transformed into Al-Nusra Front), launched […]

Shifting the Balance of Power in West Asia: Why Arab Countries Failed to Prevent Genocide in Gaza – Part II
By Osman Softić || 8 November 2024 One of the most seasoned American experts on the Middle East, retired US ambassador Ryan Crocker, named by former US President George W. Bush as “American Lawrence of Arabia” was completely honest […]

When JAIS rears its ugly head again!
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 5 November 2024 We read the story of the arrest of Ustaz Dr Abdullah Yasin by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) three days ago with much consternation. It brings back to memory the arrest […]

Shifting the Balance of Power in West Asia: Why Arab Countries Failed to Prevent Genocide in Gaza – Part I
By Osman Softić || 1 November 2024 The Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza has been going on for more than 12 months. By bombarding Gaza with devastating American-made bombs, Israel, with the blessing of Washington and its […]

RUU Mufti (FT) 2024: An unconstitutional and divisive bill – Islamic Renaissance Front
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 25 Oct 2024 The debate on the Mufti (Federal Territories) Bill 2024 continues unabated, raging like wildfire. Surprisingly, the strongest voices against this bill were from the so-called liberal factions―much to the chagrin of some people―especially […]

What is fundamentally wrong with RUU Mufti 2024?
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 14 October 2024 The issue of RUU Mufti 2024 has been much discussed. We even wrote about it in our Malay post “RUU Mufti 2024: Penjurusan ke Arah Autoritarianisme Agama?” which was published on our […]

The Martyrdom of Hassan Nasrallah: Paradigm shift in the Middle East or a temporary setback for the Resistance Axis?
By Osman Softić || 30 Sept 2024 The latest Israeli unrestrained rampage in Lebanon under the diplomatic, political, and military protection and tacit approval of the United States, in confrontation with what is widely accepted as the Axis of Resistance […]

A Refutation of Farid Al-Attas’ slippery slope of JAKIM’s certification
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 24 September 2024 We refer to the piece which appeared on MalaysiaNow citing Prof Farid Alatas’s view. Since the government has already ruled on this issue last Wednesday, the discussion is now mainly academic. Nonetheless, […]