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Download the article Ramadan teaches us hunger. For 30 days, we push away the plate and feel what it means to go without. We are told this is so we remember the poor, the needy, the oppressed. And then the adhaan for Maghrib calls, and we break our fast. But in Gaza, the adhaan comes…
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Download the article: From Jakarta to Istanbul, from Cairo to Karachi, the lanterns are hanging. Streets glow with decorations. Families gather for iftar. Children run between the tables. Ramadan has arrived, and the Muslim world celebrates. But in Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa sits in the shadow of occupation. While we light candles and string up crescents, they…
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Download The Article: Ramadan comes every year like a reminder. Muslims wake before dawn, fast through the day, and gather at night to pray. But for us, this month carries a weight that goes beyond personal devotion. It carries the weight of Palestine, East-Turkistan, Sudan, Yemen and places we don’t even know. When the Muslim…
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Download our article: Definitions: Understanding the Terms Before we proceed, we must understand precisely what we are discussing. Takfir means declaring a specific Muslim to be a kafir, a disbeliever who has left Islam. This is not the same as stating that certain actions are kufr or that certain beliefs constitute disbelief. Takfir is the…
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Understanding What “Sold” Means We already wrote an article on the normalization between Israel-Saudi Arabia. This time, we are talking about how they sold Palestine out. When we say Saudi Arabia has “sold” Palestine, we are not speaking metaphorically or engaging in rhetorical exaggeration. We mean that the Saudi regime has systematically traded away the…
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Download our article: Introduction: The Price You Don’t See When you click “buy now” on that five dollar dress from Shein, when you walk out of Zara with discounted clothes, when you browse Temu for cheap products, you are participating in genocide. You are funding slavery. You are making possible the destruction of the Uyghur…
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Download the pdf: INTRODUCTION: REPLACING ONE RELIGION WITH ANOTHER From Tool to Idol The Language of Absolute Authority Creating Fake Needs: The Science of Consumption Planned Obsolescence and Endless Consumption The Materialist Worldview: Science’s Greatest Product When Fraud Becomes Standard Practice The Replication Crisis: Most Published Research Is False Follow the Money: Who Funds Determines…
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Download our pdf: INTRODUCTION: THE SEDUCTIVE LIE The modern Western world operates on a seemingly reasonable principle: “You have the freedom to do whatever you want as long as you don’t harm others” or “Your freedom ends where mine begins.” This sounds fair, tolerant, and respectful of individual autonomy. It’s the foundational principle of classical…
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Download the article: THE VOICE BEHIND THE MASK For over 15 months, the world knew him only as Abu Ubaida, the official spokesman of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. His face was always covered by a red-and-white keffiyeh. His voice was calm, steady, and defiant. His words struck fear into…
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DOwnload our article: The Crisis of Islamic Identity and Why Political Awareness (Siyasah) Is More Urgent Than Ever THE DEVASTATING REALITY The statistics don’t lie. Over 60% of young Muslims in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon believe democracy is preferable to Islamic governance despite democracy’s fundamental contradiction to Tawhid. Here are the statics: Figure 1. Public…
