Dear Sisters, what does the 3rd of March 1924 mean to you? Is it just an ordinary date buried in the books of history? To me, it is the date that brings tears to my eyes and burns the heart - for this is the day 90 years ago that the Muslim woman lost her shield, her guardian, her protector - the Khilafah "Caliphate". She lost her Islamic leadership that…

The arrival in Egypt on the 19th February, 2014, of General Viktor Bondarev, the head of Russia's Air Force, so soon after Egypt's military dictator, the self-promoted Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, visited Russian President Vladimir Putin on the 13th February, and the warm welcomes and talk of military cooperation and arms negotiations worth $3 billion is no surprise. Russia has never made a serious pretence at democracy. America, on…

Despite denials from Egypt's military, all eyes are on Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to run for the presidency. In fact, the emphatic endorsement from the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) a few days earlier clearly demonstrates that Sisi is poised to assume the office of the presidency. Even Egypt's former tyrant Mubarak weighed in the anticipation and predicted that Sisi will become president-or in Mubarak's lexicon the new…

As India's general election fast approaches, opinion polls are projecting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to be considerably ahead of its main rival the Congress Party. According to CVoter and the India Today media group, BJP is set to win 188 seats in the 543 seat