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by Dr. Aslam Abdullah Two mass shooting in a span of 21 hours. Two acts of terrorism and two violent demonstrations of hatred. The two states, Texas and Ohio where these two incidents took place are run by the Trump Republicans. The President called them acts of cowardice. The governor blamed mental illness and violent […]
By Dr. Aslam Abdullah Dalits are considered impure and the filthiest in the hierarchy determined by birth in Hinduism. They have always lived on the periphery of Hindu religion and society. Muslims in India, by and large, are the descendants of Dalits or so-called untouchables who decided to accept Islam as doors leading to dignity […]
August 2019 Print issue
by Rohan Shah Technology is a double-edged sword that has the potential to hurt and heal, contingent on the quality of its deployment. India is currently weighing the pros and cons of adapting Aadhar, the 12-digit Digital Identifying number to digitize the healthcare system in throughout the country The health ministry on July 15th, 2019, […]
by Zain Ahmed Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev and Argentine boxer Hugo Alfredo Santillan have both died in the same week from similar brain injuries at the mere ages of 28-years-old and 23-years-old respectively. Three days after his final fight against Subriel Matias from Portugal, Dadashev died on July 23 devastating the boxing community. While Dadashev was […]
by Usman Saiyed “MIST! MIST! MIST!” This is the chant of hundreds of high school Muslim boys and girls coming together for one event, Muslim Interscholastic Tournament (MIST). MIST is a tournament that is held annually where high schools contend in competitions under different categories like Arts, Sports, Quran, Group Projects, Debate and many more. This […]
by Aysha Qamar Afghanistan has demanded a clarification on Tuesday of President Donald Trump’s comments a day earlier that he could have had the country “wiped off the face of the earth” but did not “want to kill 10 million people.” President Trump made the comments Monday during an Oval Office meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister […]
By Hasan Abbas This article is from the Center for Global Policy CGP Senior Fellow & National Defense University Professor, Dr. Hassan Abbas, shares his thoughts on what to expect from the summit meeting between Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, July 22, 2019. For Pakistani Prime Minister […]
by Jill Patel In a Rose Garden ceremony on Thursday, July 11, President Trump announced he would drop efforts to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Instead, he stated his plan to sign an executive order requiring citizenship, non-citizenship, and immigration data from all U.S. agencies to be provided to the Department of […]
by Iman Saleem United States President Donald Trump took to Twitter earlier this month to unleash a slew of bigoted remarks against a number of Democratic Congresswomen, whom he told to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came”. For three members of the group colloquially known as […]
By Gayatri Sethi The following poem was published on Brown Girl Magazine in response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and three of her colleagues on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, by chanting “Send her back!” Trump, angered by the House’s effort to impeach him over racist comments about the lawmakers just […]
His membership in a commission that could help the Trump administration roll back human rights is the last straw. by Maha Hilal This article was originally published on Al Jazeera Since the beginning of Donald Trump‘s presidency in January 2017, many American Muslim leaders have been busy fighting back against the repressive, Islamophobic policies designed and […]
by Iman Saleem Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced that he signed death warrants for four drug offenders, a move that would end the island’s 42-year-old moratorium on the death penalty/ The executions, if they do take place, will be the first in the country since 1976. The announcement was met with both local and international condemnation, with human rights organizations and […]
A six-year-old Indian migrant, Gurupreet Kaur, died in Arizona while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexican border with her mother and three other Indian nationals last month. The young girl and her mother along with two other adult women and an 8-year-old girl were dropped off in a remote border area by human smugglers. The group was separated […]
BY IMAANASIM I joined my kickboxing class eight months ago, after leaving my beloved jujitsu class back in Doha last year. The biggest difference between the two classes is that my former was filled with Muslim women, but in my current class in England, I am the only brown woman (except for my sisters), and the […]
By Haroon Imtiaz Americans celebrate the birth of their nation every year on July 4. It was on this day in the year 1776 that Americans ratified Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence and renewed their commitment to the revolutionary struggle against Great Britain. They would go on to overcome the tyranny of imperial power, unite […]
By Yousuf Ali The main two rivals in Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Afghan government said that they would meet the following Sunday as the United States seeks a deal with the Taliban within 3 months, July 7. According to Al Jazeera, this is the 7th round of peace talks aimed at bringing the 18-year […]
by TMO Staff When Bernie Sanders ran in the 2016 presidential election, his plan for free college tuition could not go far due to his defeat then. Second time around, it is once again a part of his campaign, with his promise to forgive all outstanding student loan debt. Another Democratic presidential candidate, Massachusetts Senator […]
by Noor Salem While juicing and drinking smoothie have become a hot fad recently, it’s very crucial that you are careful with the options you decide to drink. Drinking raw vegetable juice, or even fruit smoothies, could come along with incredible health benefits and do your body wonders. Nonetheless, not all store-bought smoothie or juices […]
BY MARIAMTANVIR It was a lavish dinner party that we attended with our little family. The baby was just getting to a sociable stage so naturally, he was the life of the party! Popular with all the kids and adults, being handed off from one person to another, and smiling for all the cameras; he was […]
