Category: Opinion

White supremacy and Hindu nationalism have common roots going back to the 19th-century idea of the ‘Aryan race’. Over the last few years, especially after Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 US presidential election, we have been witnessing the normalisation, and rise, of a white-supremacist, ultranationalist brand of right-wing politics across Europe and the United States. While the shift towards extreme […]

Muslims across the world persecuted, abused and murdered by Muslim and non-Muslim regimes. by Hamid Dabashi What is happening to Muslims around the globe? In China they are put into concentration camps, in Myanmar they are slaughtered en masse, in Indiathey have been the targets of systematic pogroms, in Israel along with Christian Palestinians they are mowed down on a daily basis, […]

Sun 08 September 2019: Iran’s pro-Palestinian mask has been slipping over the past 15 years. On the last Friday of every Ramadan since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution, Iran has had huge rallies to oppose Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem and surrounding holy lands of historical Palestine. These demonstrations have been given official […]

*SOME ANALYSTS THINK THAT HISTORICAL LEGACY CAN STILL BE EXPLOITED. A 2007 REPORT BY THE RAND CORP., A U.S. THINK TANK, ADVISED WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO “HARNESS” SUFISM, SAYING ITS ADHERENTS WERE “NATURAL ALLIES OF THE WEST.* In recent years, the dominant image of islam in the minds of many Westerners has been one loaded with […]

by Leonid Issaev The US shouldn’t count on Russia to force Iran out of Syria any time soon. Speculation about tensions in Russian-Iranian relations after the collapse of the nuclear deal earlier this year has been circulating for a few months now. Tehran appears to be fearing a “betrayal”, as Moscow is trying to negotiate with […]

by Ruqaya Izzidien Growing up in Britain, I knew nothing of the many crimes the British Empire had committed against my Iraqi ancestors. If you grew up in Britain, like me, you probably would not be able to recall being taught anything substantial about British colonial history in school. The British curriculum dedicates plenty of […]

by Sisonke Msimang Donald Trump’s endorsement has hurt white nationalists and their attempt to garner support in South Africa. Donald Trump’s comments referring to “large scale killings” of white farmers in South Africa last week may have mobilised the lunatic fringe in America and served the US president’s narrow racist interests, but in South Africa, they backfired […]

by Fadwa Mahmoud Tens of thousands of forcibly disappeared continue to languish in al-Assad’s prisons It is very painful for me to talk about my story, though it is one shared by many, many Syrians. In 2012, my 34-year-old son Maher Tahan went to Damascus airport to pick up my husband, Abdulaziz Al Kheir. Abdulaziz, […]