Over a thousand women, Muslim and non-Muslim from across the UK and from Europe attended a conference in Central London on Sunday 20th March, organised by the women of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain. The event aimed to counter the relentless accusations from the Western media and politicians regarding Islam’s oppression of women as well as to challenge the prevalent belief that women’s liberation can only be achieved through Western secular liberalism. Read more>>>
Today Monday 11th April 2011 marked a very important date in the history of ‘freedom’ for the world. From this day any woman in France caught wearing a Burqa (face veil) in any public place will be fined and put on a citizenship course. Any person who is accused of forcing a woman to wear the Burqa can face up to 2 years in prison. Of course women aren’t allowed to re-adorn the face veil if it is found that there are no oppressive Muslim men pulling their strings because the French liberal state knows what is best for Muslim women. Liberty it seems must be implemented at all costs, even if it means through the sanctioning of draconian laws. Read more>>>
The joint statement issued Thursday by US President Barack Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Libya not only escalates the war. It also intensifies the political divisions within Europe that are in the background of the neo-colonial operation in North Africa. While the war is marketed as a “humanitarian” enterprise, little if any attention is being paid—at least in public—to the increasingly bitter dispute between France, Britain and the United States on one side and Germany on the other. Read more>>>
The international justice collapsed and the evil, war mongers, ravaging today’s world triumphed. This is how one could describe the plight of South African Jewish Judge Robert Goldstone’s effort to retract his own, United Nations, Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza during its December 2008-January 2009 war. Read more>>>
