OPINION

In the age of social media, takfirism has exploded, sometimes with devastating impact, and always with dangerous potential, writes EBRAHIM RASOOL. He adds that the mainstream ulama must stand up against this scourge or slide into irrelevance. A CULTURE of takfirism is descending on South Africa. A...

Lata Mangeshkar’s role in Hindu cultural nationalism and history is not entirely innocuous nor is it benevolent, argues DR GAIROONISA PALEKER, and writes that ‘she was a much more complex person than her carefully cultivated public persona implied’. LATA Mangeshkar’s death on 6 February 2022 at the...

EMERITUS PROFESSOR SULEMAN DANGOR presents some facts he gleaned from an interview with Qaanitah Hunter on Channel Islam International on November 24, 2021. ACCORDING to Qaanitah, as a teenager she was always interested in the goings-on in the country and regularly listened to radio and read newspapers...

ASHRAF PATEL writes that Martin Luther King Day should be a time for critical reflection on the dire state of African Americans. Each year, on January17, Martin Luther King Day is celebrated as a national holiday in the United States to commemorate the great civil rights leader...

DR MOUSA ABU MARZOUK, a member of the politburo of Hamas and head of its international relations department, writes that the UK’s announcement that the movement will be banned under the country’s terrorism law has no impact on Hamas and it is a decision based on false...

DR FARID ESACK writes that the challenge for those who promote a scientific approach to the eradication of COVID-19 is to recognise and address the larger moral and ethical social horizons of those who do not respond scientifically. WHILE Muslims often make very eager combatants in local...

'Professor Fataar’s argument of gentle persuasion is, in my humble view, unconvincing, to the extent that it assumes as a self-evident truth that the vaccines across the entire spectrum of COVID-19 vaccines are lifesavers, without any serious side effects', writes ADVOCATE ANWAR ALBERTUS. WHILE it was not...

To mark Republic Day in Turkey – which is on October 29 – the Turkish-South African Youth Association (TURKSAY) highlights a few milestones in the foundation of the Republic, its democratisation and the women’s rights process in the country. “Everything we see in this world is the...

With vaccine hesitancy in the Muslim community a challenge, PROFESSOR ASLAM FATAAR addresses the question about the closure of mosques to the unvaccinated. In this article, I address the question of mosque access in the context of an ongoing viral pandemic. The decision about limiting mosque access...

by EMERITUS PROFESSOR SULEMAN DANGOR THE looting of businesses and destruction of property in KwaZulu-Natal following the incarceration of ex-president Jacob Zuma left many citizens without basic essentials, in particular bread and milk. The dominant narrative relating to the general mayhem is that it was an attempted...