France has for long had a difficult relationship with Islam and its adherents. The republication by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo of a controversial series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed (saw) to mark the beginning of a trial over the attack on its office in 2015 once again brought to attention the tensions between

With the destruction of the Khilafah, Muslim countries were colonized, and over the course of a hundred years the Muslim people were subjected to fierce wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing wars, the destruction of cities and villages, the displacement of their people, the plunder of their wealth, brutal wars without values or morals

in the 19th century, a French administrator trying to strengthen France’s colonial rule over parts of the Muslim world stated, “It is through women that we can get hold of the soul of a people”. The colonialists realised that within Muslim societies, women are the centre of the family, the backbone of communities, and the nurturers of children. If they could capture their hearts and minds, then they could capture the soul 

I am addressing you all whilst we live in times where Western global leadership in containing the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has been called into question by its own people, let alone the rest of the world. The discontent is manifested in criticism of the Western system itself, suspicion over the role of the wealthy power elite,