Monday, March 30, 2015

The ISIS report card, an already failed state

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ISIS, o r to use its real moniker – DA’ISH – claims to have established an “Islamic State” in parts of war-torn Iraq and Syria to aw...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Xenophobia: our official-unofficial policy?

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Xenophobia includes racism. Photo Copyright Shafiq Morton THE letter “x’’ doesn’t feature prominently in the English dictionary as th...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Are Al-Qaeda and ISIS really at our gates?

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RECENT reports that government had been told by the UN that 11 foreign terrorists might want to use the country as a base is nothing n...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Taj Hargey's "Open Mosque Members": justifying the light fantastic

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"Open Mosque Members" assert Hadith,or Prophetic Tradition is akin to irrationality. THE ARTICLE ‘Seeking the Light Fantasti...
Friday, February 13, 2015

State of the Nation 2015: an encouraging sign of democracy

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I STAY in the city bowl area near to parliament. For the past 22 years I’ve witnessed the preparations for the State of the Nation address...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

An evening with the scholars...

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ON a windy, but hot Wednesday evening, 21 January, two scholastic and spiritual luminaries, Shaikh Muhammad ibnYahya al-Ninowy and Shaikh A...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Mass Mawlud, Cape Town, January 2015

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THOUSANDS gathered to celebrate the third annual mass mawlud - the commemoration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday - at the Athlone St...