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Following the shooting of peaceful protesters on Quds Day commemoration in Zaria, Nigeria, Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky speaks to the press on the situation. The following is the transcribed version of the Press Conference: WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED “Gentlemen of the press, SalamualaikumwarahmatullahiTa’alawabarakatuhu. The ...

Thousands of protestors have marched through the streets of central London to the US embassy to protest against the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip. According to organisers as many as 9000 took part in the annual Al-Quds demonstration, inaugurated in 1979 by late Ayatollah Khomeini, who declared the ...

Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) has announced to end their sit-in, that was initiated to protest against the target killings in Karachi, as the provincial government held successful talks with the organization’s leaders on Monday morning. On Thursday, MWM organized a rally against targeted killings in Karachi from Numaish Chowrangi. The participants of ...

An old Kurdish saying goes: “When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.” In 1962, on the eve of the American invasion of Vietnam, US propaganda movie “Red Nightmare” portrayed the peoples of the Communist Bloc as bellicose, duplicitous, semi-human fanatics. The Warner Brothers-produced ...

Scholars have always been at the forefront of the revolutionary movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. From the struggle leading up to the revolution to the revolution itself, from the 8 year war to the struggles of society today,  the scholars have been on the front lines as role ...

Grand Jurist, Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli, speaking to journalist regarding the revolution day demonstrations in Qum, stated the reality of answering the call to come out in support of the system: “This presence is answering the call of the intellect, of one’s true nature, of independence and political awareness.”   The ...

Ayatollah Mohsin Araki, the Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, on the side-lines of the revolution day demonstration, stated the reason why people came out with more vigour then previous years: “The inappropriate stances of America in the negotiations such as the broken ...

Addressing a crowd of scholars protesting against an order by the Bahraini regime to dissolve the Council of Scholars yesterday, prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Eisa Qasim issued a statement against the order for the dissolution of the Council in which he stated that the termination of the council would ...

Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held a demonstration in northeastern Bahrain, calling for the democratization of the Persian Gulf country. The pro-democracy demonstration, dubbed People’s Cause, was held in the village of Sitra on Friday. The protest had been organized by the Bahraini opposition bloc al-Wefaq National Islamic Society. The ...