Sat 29 August 2020: Noor Inayat Khan’s home in London to receive blue plaque celebrating ‘Britain’s first Muslim war heroine in Europe’ LONDON – A female Muslim war hero who spied for Britain during World War II became the first woman of South Asian descent to receive a blue plaque in London, local media reported […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: Napoleon once said, “If the world was only one country, Istanbul would be its capital!” Second Caliph of Islam Umar Ibn Khattab didn’t convert churches or synagogues into mosques as the keys of Jerusalem was handed over to him in a peace treaty with conditions agreed upon on both sides. Constantinople […]
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Fri 29 May 2020: Turkey commemorates 566th anniversary of conquest of Istanbul by gallant Sultan Mehmet II On this day 567 years ago Istanbul was conquered by an Ottoman king. Constantinople, as it was then known, was capital of the Byzantine Empire. It was surrounded by many Muslim states. In a prophecy about its conquest […]
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Thu 28 May 2020: “…The darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than the others who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and their idols black and their devils white as snow. For they say that God and all […]
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Fri 01 May 2020: THE 18TH-CENTURY GERMAN thinker Adam Weishaupt would have been stunned if he had known his ideas would one day fuel global conspiracy theories, and inspire best-selling novels and blockbuster films. Until he was 36, the vast majority of his compatriots would have been equally stunned to discover that this outwardly respectable professor […]
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Wed 29 April 2020: In his book My Campaign in Mesopotamia, published in 1920, British General Charles Vere Ferres Townshend chronicles what happened during the 17-month period from the British troops’ landing on the Gulf of Basra until their surrender to Khalil Pasha. The Committee of Ottoman Military History, established by the order of Sultan […]
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The Conscience Movement held the conference in Istanbul with participants from 45 countries, to raise awareness of the suffering of women and young girls imprisoned by the Syrian regime on February 21st, 2019. FILE PHOTO. Sat 04 April 2020: By Bassam Tawil For Palestinian women in Syria, there was no reason to celebrate International Women’s Day, […]
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Tue 21 January 2020: The Sykes-Picot accord was conceived at a high point in Britain and France’s imperial power. Hammered out in the midst of the first world war in anticipation of an Entente victory (the Russian Empire, France and the United Kingdom) over the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria), it was concerned with distributing […]
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That Time Ronald Reagan opened Iran and Illegally sold Khomeini Weapons Wed 06 November 2019: The Reagan administration in the 1980s was buffeted by two policy drives toward Iran. On the one hand, Reagan ally Saudi Arabia supported Iraq, which illegally launched a war on the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1980 in order to […]
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Sun 13 October 2019: The Crimean Tatars, a minority Muslim community with a long history whose aspirations for autonomy have been crushed by Russia since its 2014 takeover of their homeland, the Crimean Peninsula, continue to vie for freedom even as the world has turned its back on them. It is very painful to witness […]
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