The slaying of the 20-year-old psychology student in Turkey, Özgecan Aslan, during an alleged attempted rape has prompted angry street protests across the country and demands that the Turkish government do more to combat violence against women. Police on Friday discovered the charred corpse of Özgecan Aslan in a riverbed in southern Mersin province. According to authorities, she was killed while fighting back a sexual assault by the driver of…

Calamities such as the brutal Peshawar attack are enough for people to feel, think and mobilize towards preventing such calamities in the future. However, the Ummah has been made accustomed to such calamities that have been occurring regularly for many decades, in the absence of the Khilafah "Caliphate", without any sign of a strategy for prevention. Regular defiling of the honor of Muslim mothers and sisters, massacre of innocent children…

As the media cameras began to roll on the Charlie Hebdo attack, Muslims globally held their breath, anticipating yet again another cycle of assault on their Islamic beliefs. They were not wrong. As details of the incident emerged, so did the bombardment of condemnatory and accusatory statements from journalists and politicians alike, that Islam's strong rejection of any insult against the Prophet (saw) or its sacred tenets was somehow to…

As the world's richest individuals and companies and the world's most powerful gathered at the Davos Summit in Switzerland. It was a shock to many when Oxfam, the UK charity, confirmed a mere 1% of the world's population owns 48% of the world's wealth. It also concluded that at the current trajectory 1% of the world's population will in a few years own 99% of the world's wealth! This was…