Syrian activist Ola (who wanted her face not to be pictured) poses on January 19, 2014, in the southern Turkey city of Gaziantep. Despite 15 months of torture and ill-treatment in Syria’s notorious prisons, Ola grudgingly supports holding peace talks with the regime that jailed her. The 23-year-old, with pale skin, short hair and a … Read more
GENEVA, December 19, 2013 (AFP) – UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Thursday demanded the release of leading Syrian women’s rights campaigner Razan Zeitouneh and three fellow activists, abducted last week by unknown kidnappers. “We have all got to demand that they are released,” Brahimi told activists from Syria and other countries as well … Read more
British imams take a stand against an armed organization claiming to speak on behalf of all Sunni Muslims. Islamic leaders in the UK, worried about British Muslims traveling to fight in areas of conflict such as Iraq and Syria, encourage unity across “colors, nationalities, cultures and creeds” in this video organized by Faith Associates consultancy and … Read more
BEIRUT, April 27, 2014 (AFP) – Rebel mortar fire on government-held districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 21 people and wounded 50 yesterday, a monitoring group said. “The fire targeted regime-held neighborhoods, including some in the Old City where the rebels are trying to advance,” the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human … Read more
The extremist group that kills Muslims and non-Muslims alike is also driving countless of the faithful from our religion. By Omar Shahid. One of the signs of the end times, according to Islam, is the inversion of reality – in other words, things being upside-down. For Muslims, there is nothing that more obviously illustrates this than … Read more