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It’s not about revenge, its justice – Imam Abdullah Haron’s family confident as historic death inquest commences

VOC The family of martyred Imam Abdullah Haron are anxious as the first day of the historic inquest into his death finally got under way in the Cape High Court on Monday. The highly anticipated inquest follows decades of efforts by justice-seeking family and friends of the martyr, who spent 123 days in apartheid custody before his demise in September 1969. The imam of the Claremont Road masjid was 45 […]

today7 November 2022

International

Israel analytics: Assassinating Kilani will strengthen Lions’ Den

INTERNATIONAL Israeli analysts indicated in the Israeli newspapers today that the Israeli Occupation's assassination of the Lions' Den activist, the martyr Tamer Al-Kilani, in Nablus last Saturday night "does not change the rules of the game" and that it would "strengthen the organisation." While the Israeli Occupation refrains from officially announcing the assassination of Al-Kilani, Yossi Yehoshua, a military analyst in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, believes Israel's decision to cover up the […]

today25 October 2022

International

Brazilian Muslims demand Harvard return skull of slave who fought in uprising

INTERNATIONAL The Islamic community of Salvador, in Brazil’s Bahia state, has pushed Harvard University to repatriate the skull of an enslaved man who allegedly took part in a famous uprising of African Muslims in the city in 1835. The skull is part of a Harvard collection of human remains of 19 people of African origin likely enslaved in the Americas. The University’s Peabody and Warren museums also hold the remains […]

today16 October 2022

International News

Jamal Khashoggi’s son Salah says family ‘forgives’ killers

The son of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has released a statement via Twitter forgiving his father's killers. In the statement, posted on Friday, Salah Khashoggi said his family pardons those who took the reporter's life in 2018 when he visited Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. "In this blessed night of the blessed month (of Ramadan) we remember God's saying: If a person forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is […]

today22 May 2020

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