Paris hosted its first-ever Modest Fashion Week. And across the board, from the brands promoting their Muslim-friendly designs to the hijabi influencers flown out to promote, it seems to have been lauded as a success for inclusion and progression. However, there’s...
The "Sharia-Free America Caucus", a congressional group in the United States that claims to advocate for stopping the spread of Islamic law , was established in December 2025 and has quickly reached more than 60 members—amounting to...
The UK's local elections in May have offered a telling window into where British politics is heading. Arguably, they signal one of the most profound challenges to the post-World War II two-party system in modern Britain, as mainstream support...
Two attacks in central Mali claimed by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists have killed more than 30 people, local, security and administrative sources told AFP on Thursday. The two strikes came less than a fortnight after a large-scale, coordinated...
The US has announced a new counterterrorism strategy, which claims for the first time ever that the Muslim Brotherhood is the originator of both Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State extremist group. The strategy was announced on Tuesday...
As a retired Metropolitan police detective, I’m alarmed that senior officers might ban Palestine marches in central London in the wake of the Golders Green stabbings. Every march I have attended as a citizen has been nothing but peaceful....
The Palestine Coalition on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Metropolitan Police Commissioner over two media interviews, in which he accused the groups of antisemitism. The complaint, sent to the London Mayor's Office, was made regarding Mark Rowley's...
Pro-Palestine groups and anti-racism organisations in Britain have intensified their mobilisation efforts for a major march to mark Nakba Day set to take place in London on 16 May after reaching an agreement with police over the...
Have you ever come across someone whose life has thrown so many curveballs at them that it almost sounds unbelievable, and yet here they are, still standing? Naz Shah , who is Labour MP for the West Yorkshire constituency of...
A former synagogue in London has been targeted by an arson attack, amid ongoing media coverage of antisemitism which has seen right-wing and pro-Israel politicians call for a ban on pro-Palestine marches. The East London Central Synagogue, a former...
Civil society groups have slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer's threat to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests, describing it as an attack on democratic rights and warning against conflating British Jews with the actions of the Israeli government. Starmer told...
The firm defense of Mali this week indicates that Western intrigue will fail. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su An audacious coup attempt against the government in the West African state of Mali...
British police on Wednesday carried out raids on a secretive religious group led by an Egyptian-American 'Mahdi' claimant, following allegations of rape, slavery, sexual abuse, and forced marriage by a former member. In an operation involving 500 officers from the Cheshire...
For sixteen years, Viktor Orbán did not merely govern Hungary; he redefined it. His doctrine of the “illiberal state” was a key feature of his rule. He argued that liberal democracy—with its checks and balances, its independent press, its rights...
Chairman of the American Conservative Union and former White House Director Matthew Schlapp recently offered a bit of illustrative wit. When asked about the 160 Iranian schoolgirls killed in an airstrike that a Pentagon probe and international human rights...
The Muslim Association of Canada has welcomed an expert’s review into the government revenue agency’s auditing practices, which found serious deficiencies that carried risks of “capturing innocent activity through associational connections.” The review comes after the Canadian Revenue Agency itself...
Credit: UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi The niqab is a full-body Islamic piece of clothing, worn by some women in devout Muslim communities, and which covers the whole body, leaving only a narrow slit for the eyes. French full-body veil ban, violated...
The Indian state’s crackdown on independent Muslim voices continued when a court slapped three life sentences on an Islamic writer and Kashmiri activist, Asiya Andrabi, and two others, for what appears to have been more an attack on ideology rather...
Israel's military strategy in Gaza has evolved beyond direct occupation into a fragmentation campaign, backing at least five Palestinian armed groups in an attempt to dismantle Hamas governance and create a chaotic security vacuum that deepens control over the...
Islam Times - Amid an economic crisis and a declining global role for the United Kingdom, reports have emerged suggesting that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is seeking to introduce new anti-terrorism legislation—an initiative that, in parallel with domestic pressures...
A look at the Ottoman Empire’s rare and dramatic victory over the British at the 1916 siege of Kut, and what it reveals about colonial ambitions and Muslim resistance. By Ibrahim Moiz for MuslimMatters A Rare Ottoman Victory The First World...
On 12 April, Viktor Orban's sixteen-year grip on power ended in a landslide electoral defeat that carries consequences far beyond Budapest. While Orban’s defeat was framed primarily as a domestic mandate against corruption and authoritarianism, it also reflects the...
Without understanding the astonishing network of power exercised by the United Arab Emirates you would have no idea why the UAE was hit particularly hard by Iran in recent weeks. Nor would you know what fuels chaos from Libya to...
This article was first published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. March unfolded like a stress test for US counterterrorism authorities. The month opened with a gunman in an Iranian-flag shirt killing three people at a...
In late March , I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I’ve joined countless protests and vigils outside the court. In 2018, I...
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has been urged to intervene in a dispute between pro-Palestinian groups and police over a planned march for Nakba Day , after officers refused to approve the route while permitting a...
The Weight of Symbolic Recognition When I saw the image, I stopped scrolling. A mosque with an American flag in front of it. The words across the bottom: Ramadan has officially been recognized in Washington. And then the...
Algerian poet Mohamed Tadjadit, winner of the Index 2025 Freedom of Expression Award in Arts, was recently jailed following trumped-up charges. He is also facing separate charges that mean he could face the death penalty. Tadjadit writes raw poetry rooted...
By Steven TUCKER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Will teen suffrage give left-wing educators proxy ballots? I was once a schoolteacher in England, where it was drummed into us during training that...
A critique of how tech culture and venture capital are reshaping Muslim priorities, urging a return to spiritually grounded progress. “You will tread the same path as was trodden by those before you, inch by inch and step by step,...
Are we facing a global religious war? Or is this an opportunity to reestablish the relationship between revolutionary politics and religion? Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the author...
The conscience of humanity resists “everything for us, nothing for others,” the creed of the predatory empire erected on the corpses of nations. The shameless rapacity and insolence have reached their zenith, and Trump’s threats illustrate the depraved spirit of...
No real estate crook should complete a project on time, let alone ahead of schedule, but Donald Trump wrapped up the Iran war years shy of the average American loss. Technically, after threatening a genocide, he...
An Israeli airstrike that destroyed a synagogue in central Tehran on Tuesday has left many of Iran's religious minorities in shock, not only because of the damage itself, but because it laid bare Israel's apparent disdain for Jewish...
Britain former PM shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale Jonathan Cook is the author of three books...
Cultural and holy sites in Palestine and Israel have seen a sharp drop in visitor numbers since the beginning of the war on Gaza in 2023. This decline, however, has now reached unprecedented levels following the launch of...
Credit: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Apr 6 2026 (IPS) Bangladesh’s first credible election in nearly two decades delivered a landslide win for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its leader Tarique Rahman , son...
A Syrian interior ministry spokesman has announced plans to introduce a law regulating protests in the country, after a demonstration at the UAE embassy sparked tension between Abu Dhabi and Damascus. Speaking to Al-Ikhbariya TV...
By Eric ROSS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is...
New York City police arrested a member of a Jewish Defense League group known as JDL 613 , for plotting to assassinate a Palestinian-American leader. The suspect is Alexander Heifler, whose Linkedin account lists his employment as...
France suspects a pro-Iranian group known as HAYI to be behind a foiled attack on Bank of America's Paris offices, its anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Wednesday, although it stressed the link has not yet been formally established. HAYI, which stands...
By: Wong Chin Huat - - - - Malaysia, having suffered through the global financial scandal involving Malaysia’s sovereign investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (IMDB) that brought down one of the world’s longest ruling parties, United Malays National Organization (UMNO),...
Earlier this month, the Labour government took the historic step of adopting a non-statutory definition of anti-Muslim hostility – seven years after the previous Conservative government committed to doing so. This definition was developed by an expert working group...
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...
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,...
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...
Forget the Gulf as you have known it until now. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A System in flux In the contemporary international system, the Sunni-majority countries centered around the Persian Gulf...
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...
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