Many British Muslims are aware of the illustrious history of the Ottomans, but few may know about a special, and recent, connection to the dynasty found right here in the UK.

https://www.islam21c.com/current-affairs/uk-first-turkish-mosque-may-close/

No European country has gone further than Germany in its violent crack-down on Palestinian solidarity, but western media outlets are silent.

Dr. Salman Butt speaks to historian Dr. Stef Keris who was raised in Germany and knows the people and landscape well enough to help us understand just what the heck is happening and what we need to do about it.

https://youtu.be/xk2dap8KV6I

Families of prisoners of war still being held in Gaza have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv to call on Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government to accept the latest ceasefire deal. Israel has refused to accept the deal, saying it did not address its core demands. 
 
Now, the IDF says it is conducting “a limited operation” in Rafah to kill Palestinian fighters and dismantle infrastructure used by Hamas.
 
In a statement, the Palestinian resistance organisation said, "If his aggression continues, he will only suffer more defeats and disgrace." 
 
"The occupation army’s storming of the Rafah crossing, and its barbaric and criminal bombing, at the insistence of Netanyahu and his extremist warlords, is an open attempt to sabotage all the efforts of the mediators to achieve an agreement to stop the aggression against our people, and at the same time it is a desperate attempt to create an image of an illusion of victory to save face."

The recent seizure of the Rafah Border Crossing by Zionist forces has sparked a renewed humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with aid deliveries halted and civilian movement restricted.

Notably, it is the one and only gateway between Gaza and Egypt.

https://www.islam21c.com/news/israel-seizure-rafah-crossing-worsens-gaza-crisis/

Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism. Just hear what this Jewish Rabbi says about those responsible for the ongoing genocide.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WNY75nU7ycc

#rafah #palestine #gaza

Almost 2,000 vulnerable children have been abandoned by the Home office, after a technical flaw led to cases being removed.

According to data, many of these young people may have been trafficked or victims of modern slavery.

“I felt like I had entered Hell, since before and after your own beatings you would only hear the screams of the other prisoners being tortured, day and night.”

In this fourth instalment of A Boy Named Justice — an Islam21c-CAGE International project, authored by Zimarina Sarwar — we rejoin Shaykh Adel Abdul Bary whilst on the run from Egyptian state security on the orders of Anwar Sadat.

Why was he on the run? He had become prominent among his community for a fearless approach to Islamic education while speaking against state repression and corruption.

In the eyes of the government, he had to be stopped. His time was up.

https://www.islam21c.com/abnj4

Ireland's oldest university is cutting ties with all Israeli businesses after a successful five-day student protest.

The decision will hit firms that operate shamelessly in occupied Palestine and those on the UN blacklist.

Given the level of betrayal and indifference of some Arab and Muslim regimes, you may ask why I am wasting my time talking about military intervention by the official armies of these countries.

The so-called Israel Defense Forces is behind this ongoing genocide, but who makes up the real Zionist Defence Force?

https://www.islam21c.com/opinion/case-for-gaza-palestine-military-intervention/

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has visited Europe this week, with many citing the visit as a frantic attempt to iron out ongoing economic disputes between the EU and China.

But we will not let this distract from the ongoing Uyghur genocide, in which millions have been put into concentration camps, forcibly sterilised, had foetuses aborted, wombs removed, raped, or killed.

#stand4uyghurs

The Gaza genocide has revealed many cracks in the current world order.

While many people are entering into Islam in droves, there is something beyond the personal spiritual, intellectual and moral void that needs filling.

Something wider. Something GLOBAL.

https://youtu.be/0qFASpwHOIM

Which country has the best mental health?

The answer may surprise you.

https://youtube.com/shorts/5mDRhL_kWe8

Cambridge University's richest college is divesting from all weapons firms including Elbit Systems.

It was previously revealed that Trinity had invested £61,735 at the notorious Israeli firm.

Today marks the Nakba, the "Catastrophe" in Arabic, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes in 1948, orchestrated by Zionist forces.

Supported by the major powers of the world, Zionist gangs attacked Palestinian cities, destroying some 530 villages, killing over 13,000 and displacing over 700,000, around two-thirds of the whole population.

Though the adage “The apple never falls far from the tree” is ominously significant in this context, it fails to capture the rot setting into the apple, as Netanyahu drives the Zionist project to its ethical and political demise.
Netanyahu isn’t merely an apple under the fascist tree which designed the Nakba — he is its historical continuum, now rotting in its shadows.

https://www.islam21c.com/history/nakba-netanyahu-the-elder-rotting-apple-of-zionism/

Today, we stand with our brothers and sisters in marking the 76th year of Nakba, the Palestinian Catastrophe.

Since the late 40s, the situation has only worsened. In October 2023, another Nakba began, one arguably worse than the last.

"They are not students, they are now our teachers.”

Students have been all over the news in the last few weeks. Shaykh Dr. Haitham al-Haddad and other Muslim leaders urged people to support the student encampments in the US when they began and since then student protests have spread like wildfire.

We’ve seen encampments spreading across the UK and Europe, and Muslim students have been speaking with us from the ground.

Shaykh Haitham and Dr. Salman Butt discuss some of their most frequently asked questions and issues, particularly from an Islamic moral perspective.

https://youtu.be/1yA-Wn84hjY

“These are my grandparents. They were raised in Lubya, a village in Palestine on a tall hill near Tiberias, with a view of the lake and the Golan Heights.”

“In 1948, they were driven from their home by Israeli forces and spent the rest of their lives in exile. Their village was emptied, and their home was demolished.”

Omar Alkhatib writes a powerful reminder of how real stories are the backbone of genuine narratives.

https://www.islam21c.com/nakba/tale-of-loss-longing-and-legacy-in-palestine/

US Army Major Harrison Mann has quit over "moral injury" caused by his government's inaction on the Gaza genocide.

On resigning, he said, "You're either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you're not."

“We would be together and hear the cries of the one being taken for interrogation. When he returned, we knew what to say to him, how to comfort and treat him. Because yesterday it was us, and tomorrow it will be another.”
 
In this fifth instalment of A Boy Named Justice — a special Islam21c-CAGE International project, written by our regular contributor Zimarina Sarwar — we look at the incredibly painful periods of detention faced by Shaykh Adel Abdul Bary.
 
And we hear about his experience working as a human rights lawyer at Amnesty International in New York, his trip to Britain, making Hajj, and a visit to Pakistan.

https://www.islam21c.com/abnj5

Indian voters are engaged in the world's largest ever election, with Hindu supremacist Narendra Modi seeking a third term.

With anti-Muslim hatred on the rise, Indian Muslims are being urged to vote in hope of securing a fairer government.