“The Free Masked” group launches from Mecca and Riyadh, calling for dignity, justice, and an end to authoritarian rule. Watan-In a rare and unprecedented moment in Saudi Arabia’s modern history, a youth-led group calling itself “The Free Masked” has announced its launch from within the kingdom, specifically from Mecca and Riyadh, as a protest movement against growing repression under Crown…
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Video link Note: the purpose of this video is not to comment on individuals going to perform Hajj to fulfill their Islamic obligation, but rather to call out the crimes of those who take this money and funnel it to the murderers themselves.
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5pillars.org President Donald Trump has appointed Shaykh Hamza Yusuf to serve on the advisory board of his Religious Liberty Commission. The White House confirmed the appointment in a statement issued this week. They described Sheikh Hamza as “one of the leading proponents of classical learning in Islam and… a co-founder of Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college…
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Mahmood OD offers a hopeful overview of recent developments in efforts to stop the Gaza genocide. Mahmood OD, a native Palestinian born in Haifa, is the author of 2048: A Manifesto for the One State Solution in Israel Palestine. In it, he considers the underlying causes of the violence and instability in the region, and proposes a simple and sensible…
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Listen or watch at the Al-Andalus Tribune Substack Undoubtedly the best-known Muslim journalist working in English, Yvonne Ridley has written for several of the biggest British publications, as well as al-Jazeera and Press TV. She is also an accomplished documentary filmmaker and one of Europe’s best known Muslim human-rights activists. Her books include In the Hands of the Taliban, Ticket…
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Eric Walberg, a Canadian Muslim journalist, is the author of The Canada-Israel Nexus, Islamic Resistance to Imperialism, From Postmodernism to Postsecularism, and Postmodern Imperialism. By Eric Walberg (subscribe to his Substack The internet, computers have been a boon to essayists like Edward Curtin (and me!). He/you/we can publish at online sites (DissidentVoice.org is a favorite for us) and then publish…
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