Since the collapse of the criminal Assad regime in Syria, there has been much talk about the priority of building the economy and rebuilding it. This priority takes precedence over all other considerations, and Syria will not be able to flourish without rebuilding its economy and ensuring the return of its displaced citizens.
One of the most widely circulated and popular lies in the corridors of political thought and the media is that which attempts to blame Islamic groups and religious figures for the poverty and ignorance prevalent in Muslim countries. This lie is promoted by many intellectuals and media figures in an effort to distort the image of Islam and justify the dark reality we live in.
The fall of the former Syrian regime marked a turning point in the history of the Islamic Ummah. It confirmed that Allah (swt) is always with the oppressed, that Muslim revolutions are not dead, and that the project of change, championed by the Ummah's sons and daughters to revive Islam and resume conveying its risaalah (message) to the world, has not ceased.
In the political vacuum that has emerged after the overthrow of Bangladesh’s authoritarian leader, religious fundamentalists in one town declared that young women could no longer play soccer. In another, they forced the police to free a man who had harassed a woman for not covering her hair in public, then draped him in garlands of flowers.
On the first day of Eid al-Fitr, Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban government, delivered a sermon in which he urged patience in the face of poverty, warned against the dangers of division, and emphasized full adherence to Islamic Sharia, explicitly rejecting any form of non-Islamic legislation.
