We have been here before. Yet, listening to the reactions, it would seem, on first impressions, that few people have learned anything constructive and that many will use this event for political gain. In the last 24 hours we have seen back-to-back coverage and countless commentators, politicians and self-styled spokesmen lining up to talk about Islam and ‘extremism'. The media has labelled this killing an act of ‘terror' against an…

Approximately seven centuries ago in the year 656 AH, Hulagu Khan destroyed Baghdad after a severe siege. People were massacred in large numbers, houses and mosques were demolished, books and libraries were burned, and crops and livestock were destroyed. The Tigris River, penetrating Baghdad, was witness to this destruction as its water was diluted with human blood and the ink from books. Today stripped from any humility before Allah, His…

On 06 May, 2013, in the dead of night, the agent of imperialist crusaders, zalim Sheikha Hasina unleashed a brutal, cowardly, barbaric attack on the hundreds of thousands of Muslims who were gathered at Motijheel Shapla Chattar, Dhaka, to protest against the outrageous vilification of Islam and RasulAllah (saw). Upon her orders, at around 2:30am, a combined force of more than 10,000 police, Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guards well…

The issue of widespread corruption in Afghan departments has been acknowledged both by the government of Afghanistan and Western colonialists, so much so that after the flight of former head of the Central Bank of Afghanistan to USA, President Hamed Karzai said, "Officials with two nationalities do whatever they wish and then fly to foreign countries such as Washington, London, Paris and other places."