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Choose a city and imagine what it would look like if it was 95% razed and rebuilt in the course of 20 years. Think about all the history and culture that would be destroyed. This dystopian vision isn’t hypothetical. Rather, it’s happening in Mecca, the Saudi Arabian city to which ...

“Muslim feminists” have made liberalism a universal premise for their thinking whilst selectively using Shariah principles to justify unIslamic ideas, writes Ali Harfouch. If there is one thing we can learn from the ways in which colonial-relations manifest themselves it is the process of colonisation and subversion is not necessarily a ...

One has only to read William Simpson’s biography of Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz to understand why the Saudi King, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, has accepted his resignation as head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services, writes Abdelbari Atwan. William Simpson is a personal friend of Prince Bandar and studied with him ...

The making of the Happy British Muslims video is not as worrying as some are making it out to be. But what is extremely worrying is lack of depth demonstrated by a large part of the Islamic community’s reaction to the video, the extent of which is deeply disturbing, writes João ...

Written by Zainab Rahim, joint Editor-in-Chief of The Platform.   If Aronofsky’s Noah met the Qur’anic Noah they probably wouldn’t recognise each other  WARNING: Contains Spoilers Mass human outrage is no stranger to our 21st-the-pope’s-on-Twitter-and-Russell-Crowe-is-irritating-him century. And there’s no better way to earn your Hollywood director stamp of approval than by interpreting ...

Written by Haseeb Rizvi I woke up this morning to find all my social media news-feeds plastered with a YouTube video entitled Happy British Muslims. In short, its a video of a diverse range of British Muslims miming and dancing to a song by artist Pharell’s song ‘Happy’. The objective ...

Dear Hamza, How difficult and painful the task at hand is. It is more difficult than all the exams you had to sit at the Faculty of Media Studies. It is more difficult than the graduate school classes you used to complain about, and its dreary coursework and compulsory attendance. ...

Dr. Hassen Al-Sader, Director of Al-Shaheed Al-Sadr Office in London Everywhere around the Muslim nation, especially in the Middle East, and probably starting from Iraq: sectarianism has been eating its way through the nation. Shedding blood, increasing tension, fragmenting society and even breaking the family unit, sectarianism has done a big ...

Patrick Cockburn – The Independent  President Obama flew to Saudi Arabia to patch up relations with King Abdullah at the end of last week in his first visit in five years. The alliance had been strained by Saudi anger over US negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme and Obama’s ...

By Saad Rasool This week, I happened to meet a man whose story represents a deep rupture in the soul of our “Muslim” nation. This young man, barely in his early thirties, is a bookseller in one of the densely populated urban centers of Lahore. I had been told by ...