FROM UMMAH TO NATIONALISM: THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC’S IDENTITY SHIFTS UNDER AIRSTRIKES

 People continue their daily life under the shadow of the ceasefire reached with Israel, in Tehran, Iran, on July 15, 2025. [Fatemeh Bahrami – Anadolu Agency] Mon 28 July 2025: In June 2025, after Israeli and U.S. airstrikes targeted Iranian nuclear sites and civilian areas, the Islamic Republic stopped short of a full military response. But it […]

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BEYOND PALESTINE: THE UMMAH’S CRISIS OF SELECTIVE SOLIDARITY AND THE MYTH OF A SUPERMAN SAVIOR

Sat 19 July 2025: The Superman 2025 film has been widely interpreted as an allegory for Palestinian resistance—an oppressed people yearning for a hero to break their chains. But this reading reveals a deeper, more troubling reality: the Muslim world has turned Palestine into a symbolic Superman, a singular moral cause that absolves the Ummah […]

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‘LIVES CONTROLLED BY CRIME’: EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS HIT SOUTH AFRICA POLICE

Tue 15 July 2025: Government under pressure as a provincial police commissioner accuses the country’s police chief of colluding with criminal gangs. Cape Town, South Africa – When Patricia Blows heard a senior police official’s explosive allegations against South Africa’s political and law enforcement elite last week, her thoughts went straight to the stalled investigation into […]

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DIDDY VERDICT RAISES QUESTIONS OVER DOMESTIC ABUSE, POWER AND COERCION

Sun 06 July 2025: The jury’s decision highlights the complexities of intimate partner violence and the legacy of the #MeToo movement. The trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has culminated in a verdict, after more than seven weeks of intense media scrutiny and testimony about drug-fuelled celebrity sex parties. But beneath the salacious details, […]

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BEYOND SECTARIANISM: HOW TÜRKIYE QUIETLY SHIELDS IRAN AND REDEFINES MUSLIM GEOPOLITICS

Wed 25 June 2025: While much of the world sees Iran and Türkiye as perennial rivals—one Persian, the other Turkic; one Shia-led, the other Sunni-rooted—a closer look reveals something far more nuanced. Especially under Erdoğan’s leadership, Türkiye has developed a non-aligned posture that, while never openly allied with Iran, has repeatedly shielded it from Western […]

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NETANYAHU HAS TWO WAR AIMS: DESTROYING IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND REGIME CHANGE. ARE EITHER ACHIEVABLE?

Mon 16 June 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could last for at least two weeks. His timing seems precise for a reason. The Israel Defence Forces and the country’s intelligence agencies have clearly devised a methodical, step-by-step campaign. Israeli forces initially focused on decapitating the Iranian military […]

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EAST AFRICA’S RULERS SAW WHAT GEN Z CAN DO – NOW THEY’RE STRIKING FIRST

Thu 12 June 2025: Albert Ojwang’s death in Kenya marks a regional crackdown aiming to crush youth-led protests before they re-emerge. Last Friday, Albert Ojwang, a young blogger in the western Kenyan town of Migori, was arrested over a complaint by a senior police officer regarding a post on X and taken 350km (217 miles) […]

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