Tuesday, April 26, 2016

World power: the intended and unintended consequences

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We are most destructive generation. Copyright Shafiq Morton. WRITING a predictive and analytical piece about global events in this day...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

A survival guide to Islam (the one without ISIS)

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The Qur'an mentions mountains, the sea and the sky. Copyright Shafiq Morton MUSLIM scholars say God created what we know as Crea...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

ISIS’s Western (s)hit list and the former South African-based cleric

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ISIS, the so-called “Islamic State”, has published 14 editions of its online magazine, Dabiq. It is a catchy masthead title. Dabiq is the...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Into the future, a reflection on the Western Cape Muslim community

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The changing face of South African Islam. © Shafiq Morton A VISIT to the Boland outside the urban fringes of Cape Town for a jumu’...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

Tackling South African racism via the social onion theory

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Institutionalised racism, the first layer. Photo Copyright Shafiq Morton THE official launch of the Anti-Racism Network South Africa...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

On being anti-racist...

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Is Islam in the townships any less in value? Photo Copyright Shafiq Morton. RACISM, a discriminatory and distasteful fact of human ...
Friday, February 26, 2016

A Drop of the Mercy Ocean

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This very simple, but beautiful nasihah (piece of advice) was found written on an envelope I discovered in my files the other day. It is...