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Ahmed Umar is a Sudanese multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the spiritual and ethical sensibilities of his Sufi upbringing. Engaging with traditions of ritual, embodiment, and devotion, Ahmed draws on these frameworks to reflect on queerness beyond identity...

Culture

On Feb. 28 , videos emerged online showing the aftermath of the Iran war ’s opening strikes on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. In one video taken on Pastor Street, a few alleys away from the compound,...

Activism, Column, Middle East

A few weekends ago, during a Premier League match between Leeds United and Man City, play was briefly paused to allow Muslim players to open their fast . This has been standard practice since 2021 when the holy month...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a virtual appearance at a "far-right conference" in Budapest last weekend, designed to boost his key European ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, as he slumbers into next month's general...

World

A Conservative MP has come under fire for calling public prayers during Ramadan "an act of dominance" in reference to an event organised in London’s Trafalgar Square , where people were invited to break their fast and...

World

The US is seeing a spike in Islamophobia in the wake of the US-Israel war on Iran , adding to an already high level of hate over the past three years. A report issued on 9 March by the Centre...

World

President Donald Trump has issued fresh threats in the context of the Iran war. Despite his boasts that the Iranian military is annihilated, he is pushing for Washington’s European NATO allies to join U.S. efforts to break Iranian de facto...

Iran, Iran-war, Macron

Last week, Labour finally revealed its long-awaited definition of Islamophobia, which incidentally, it is now terming ‘anti-Muslim hate’. Some Muslims have welcomed the shift from the term ‘islamophobia’, which pathologises discrimination against Muslims as a justifiable fear. Others have accused the...

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From quiet household preparations to the crowded lanes of Old Delhi, Ramadan unfolds through prayer, commerce, community, and resilience amid a climate of communal polarisation. Photo essay by Omama A. Talha and Fatima Zohra. Home to 11% of the world’s...

#Culture, #Life, featured

In the crucible of conflict, narratives are forged with haste. They glide across television screens, seep through the veins of social media, and echo in the corridors of political power, shaping how entire societies come to understand the chaos unfolding...

Perspectives

Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel was staged as a triumph of “strategic partnership,” but it landed as something more cynical: political cover for an Israeli leadership facing unprecedented legal and diplomatic scrutiny. Modi addressed the Knesset, met Benjamin...

Unfiltered

Two men accused of igniting homemade bombs at a chaotic anti-Islam protest outside the New York City mayor's mansion told police they were inspired by Islamic State group and were charged on Monday with federal terrorism-related...

World

Britain has set out a new advisory definition of what it calls anti-Muslim hostility , a long-anticipated step in its plan to clarify how authorities should identify and address abuse targeting Muslims , which is at record levels. The...

World

Almost half of all articles about Muslims in the UK in 2025 contained "measurable bias", research by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) revealed, in a landmark study examining how British Muslims are portrayed. By analysing 40,913...

World

In early February, the Fiqh Council of North America released a fatwah permitting the giving of zakah funds to political campaigns in America. This topic spurred significant debate, including a dissenting fatwah from other members of the Fiqh Council of...

#Islam, Aqeedah and Fiqh, featured

By Jonathan COOK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel...

Editor's Choice, Geopolitics, Iran

Credit: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) By Azza Karam NEW YORK, Mar 6 2026 (IPS) In recent months, the language surrounding the escalating confrontation between the United States, Israel, and Iran has taken on a tone that...

Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Democracy

- - - - Xi in a waiting game China’s muted response to the Israel/US war on Iran, which began on February 28, is both an illustration of Tehran’s lack of friends and of the sure-footed self-interest guiding Chinese diplomacy....

On February 28, the world watched in stunned silence as reports confirmed a devastating U.S.-Israeli kinetic operation in Tehran. According to reports, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a number of other senior leaders were killed in the massive strikes....

War & Peace, Iran, Israel

By their shameful, spineless stance on the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran, European leaders have doomed whatever remained of their global influence and their pretensions to promote a “rules-based international order.” They are also helping to dig the graves...

European-union, Ukraine, Russia

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has triggered an immediate and emotionally charged response from Shia outside Iran, from senior clerics and militant leaders across the Muslim world, to protesters on the streets of South Asian and...

MENA

One of the founding rationales for not allowing Bosnia to become an independent state was preventing Bosniaks from exercising full democratic sovereignty over their own country, because a majority-Muslim democracy in Europe was considered a security risk Esad Širbegović is a...

Geopolitics, Racism, Article

An Israeli-funded firm is hoping to boost evangelical support for Israel through a guided Bible study program that features interviews with Israel Defense Forces soldiers, theologians, and West Bank settlers, according to a new website uncovered by RS. The firm, California-based...

Foreign-influence, Israel, Settlements

British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department on Wednesday and met with at least one US official, social media posts from Robinson and a department official showed. "In America making alliances & friendships, today I had...

World

Donald Trump ’s electoral success relies heavily on the large evangelical Christian segment of the U.S. population, which explains why he has adopted the strategy of pretending to be a Christian himself. However preposterous this may seem, his...

Activism, Belief & Religion, Column

Islam Times - Iran is reportedly close to finalizing an agreement with China to acquire advanced anti-ship cruise missiles, a move that could significantly affect the military balance in the littoral waters of the Islamic Republic as the United States...

Iran

Islam Times - As Israeli aggression continues and economic and political pressure from the United States, France, and Saudi Arabia persists, Lebanon is demonstrating resilience on the eve of its parliamentary elections. Nabih Berri’s opposition to postponing the vote, the...

Lebanon

Hundreds of Muslims gathered in New York’s Times Square for iftar and Taraweeh prayers on Friday night, with 1,500 free meals distributed at Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Organised by Muslim American content creator WayofLifeSQ, the event drew large...

World

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of MuslimMatters.org. In Defense Of Zakat for Political Campaigns: An Argument From An American Muslim Political Operative ﷽...

#Current Affairs, #Islam, featured

La Turchia continua a rappresentare per Washington un alleato utile, non più necessario, e certamente problematico Segue nostro Telegram . Una storia d’amore, ma non troppo Le relazioni tra gli Stati Uniti e la Turchia rappresentano uno dei pilastri strategici...

Italiano, Conflict, Donald Trump

This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim youth are actually facing. The Loneliness No One Talks About There’s a specific kind of loneliness that Muslim teens...

#Islam, #Life, #Society

Co-authored by Mufti Abdullah Nana and Dr. Shafi Lodhi Picture the last time you donated during Ramadan. Maybe you were scrolling through your phone after taraweeh , watching a video of children in Gaza searching through rubble. Or perhaps...

#Society, Development, Family and Community

Pro-Palestine activism received a respite from longstanding official and unofficial repression in Britain this week with a legal order to overturn a government ban on Palestine Action, an activist organization that was banned in the summer of 2025. The High...

#Current Affairs, Civil Rights, Featured Current Affairs

Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set “Ramadan goals,” deepen their relationship with the Qur’an, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in taraweeh prayers, retreat...

#Current Affairs, Anti-Muslim Bigotry, featured

Turkey continues to be a useful ally for Washington, but no longer a necessary one, and certainly a problematic one. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A love story, but not quite Relations...

Americas, Middle East, Security

If occultism doesn’t publicly profess everything it believes in, is it possible that militant atheism is the exoteric layer of a Hermetic religion? Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Epstein Files revealed...

Society, Ideology, Jeffrey Epstein

Australia's race discrimination watchdog demanded an apology on Wednesday over remarks by a hard-right lawmaker targeting Muslims. Anti-immigration One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson said on Monday that Australia should show a "tough stance" against Islam. "Their religion concerns me, because...

World

A senior adviser to UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) has issued a sharp public critique of Wahhabism , the religious doctrine historically associated with Saudi Arabia, highlighting a widening rift between the two Gulf powers. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla,...

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