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...
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...
Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s resignation is shocking, but not for the obvious reason. It is not shocking simply because it...
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...
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...
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...
Islam Times - This year’s Quds Day in Iran was marked Friday as Iran is under the joint Israeli-American aggression, one that Netanyahu and his staunch backer Trump waged on Tehran after Gaza war and Iran has so far shown...
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...
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...
The debacle that Trump and Netanyahu have gotten their nations into Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Screen Grab After last week’s excursion into culture and politics (and extra marks to those who spotted...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display. While the official White House X account posts video montages featuring video games and...
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...
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...
This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim families are navigating. When Your Teen is Depressed There is a conversation happening in Muslim homes across the East and West right now...
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 and the US will drag the world next Jonathan Cook is the author of three...
- - - - 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....
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...
By Shoaib Rasheed Maulana Azam Hashmi (1915-1973) was born to a family of religious scholars in the Ferghana valley in modern-day Uzbekistan. He witnessed his homeland fall to communism under the new Soviet regime shortly after World War I. He was...
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...
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