Islam and Human Rights
The Prophet respectfully delivered to these differently-abled Muslims
their God-given right to not be reminded of their difference in a demeaning
way....
And following in the footsteps of the Holy Prophet, his grandson Imam
Husain took the field in Karbala on this day 14 centuries ago to raise a voice
for these very rights and confront head-on the Umayyad imperial challenge to
the Muslim faith’s egalitarian order....
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The International Human
Rights Council, Hong Kong (IHRC-HK) is extremely concerned about the malicious
and unlawful actions of government of Pakistan against its Executive Director,
Mr. Abdul Baseer Naveed who has become the Stateless—neither is he citizen of
Pakistan nor of Hong Kong, where he has been residing since 2006. The Pakistani government has deprived him of
his passport, freedom of Movement and right to adopt nationality of his choice....
On the other hand, it is also clear that in Islam, man’s natural
condition is freedom; when an abandoned child is discovered, it is assumed to
be free...
Malaysia joined the ranks of Argentina, Chile and Israel when, on April
3, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia or Suhakam concluded its 18-month
inquiry into the disappearances of social activist Amri Che Mat and Pastor
Raymond Koh with a damning conclusion...
There are important geopolitical dimensions to these three scholars’
files. Odah, Qarni, and Omari are not dissidents or revolutionaries. None of
them called for the royal family to step down from power. For most of their
careers, they avoided criticizing Al Saud royals.....
I escaped
Bahrain in 2014 after learning of the charge against me, and took up residence
in Australia, where I was granted refugee status in 2017. Feeling safer, I
often forgot there were still unfair charges against me, and my wife and I
planned our honeymoon....
The murder of
Jamal Khashoggi demolished the myth of a reforming crown prince running Saudi
Arabia. But the world needs to raise its voice to support the Saudis actually
fighting for reform....
Moreover, these Islamophobes and their
media outlets spread the canard that the slavery by ISIS and Sudanese
dictatorship is guided by Muslim religious text. ...
Human Rights
Watch says it has been forced to close half its offices in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) due to the security or political risks associated with its
work in the region, while the human rights abuses in those countries have only
worsened....
I would have
preferred to write these words in Arabic, in a Saudi newspaper, but after her
arrest the Saudi newspapers published her name, her photographs and labelled
her a traitor. The same newspapers concealed the names and pictures of the men
who could face the death penalty for the murder of Mr. Khashoggi....
Despite the
acquittal, I have already been punished, as have my co-defendants in various
ways: ....
Magnifying Pakistan in terms of women and girls’ rights, we find that they are deprived of some sort of right across the country as girls are psychologically pressurized on forced child marriage in Balochistan, FATA, and mostly rural areas of other provinces. They are brutally killed in the name of honour. Many cases of harassment and sexual violence are recorded by the media channel each year. They are deprived of education and only considered children producing machine....
Pakistan is already on the watch list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and now being blacklisted as a country where religious freedom is usurped will add more worries over its standing in the global community. The fact that the US has put Pakistan and not India on this blacklist clearly states that the diplomatic ties between Islamabad and Washington are not good. In any case, Pakistan being named as one of the worst countries for religious freedom and expression endorses the fact that despite paying a heavy cost for spreading extremism in society, the country is still not ready to give space to its minorities....
Rumi's human rights understanding are different from today's definition due to its holistic expression. First of all, from his point of view, a person is not just a simple, ordinary creature that solely consists of flesh and blood, but human beings possess a perfect system with material and spiritual dimensions, the essence of the universe and the purpose of its creation. According to many, Rumi's view played a big role in the formation of his understanding of universal human rights. ....
Some
Indonesian mujahideen went back from Karachi to create disorder at home. The
covert jihad caused millions of Afghans to flee into Pakistan and Pakistan had
to look after them with UN funds. After the Soviets left and al Qaeda did its
9/11 in 2001, the Pashtun government of Mullah Umar fell and most of it moved
to Quetta in Balochistan which began to lose its Baloch majority status to the
Pashtun....
After the
Qur’an, the life of the Prophet is the best source of guidance. While
elaborating eternal truths, he simultaneously exemplified through his
scrupulous behaviour. His life is full of such incidents, where he projects an
appropriate sense of morality. Even his bitter enemies confessed that his
ethics were great. His thought for human benefit, his works of kindness, his
words of love, his effort for peaceful coexistence and his prayers for human
salvation are brilliant examples for all to emulate....
“I abducted
your girls. I will sell them in the market; by Allah... there is a market for
selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell
women. I sell women,” Shekau said in a YouTube video at the time. Michelle
Obama, the then-US first lady, spearheaded the #BringBackOurGirls campaign on
social media but, at the time of writing, as many as 113 are still being held,
presumably in Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest stronghold....
Islam gave to mankind an ideal code of human rights fourteen centuries ago. These rights aim at conferring honour and dignity on mankind and eliminating exploitation, oppression and injustice. Human rights in Islam are firmly rooted in the belief that God, and God alone, is the Law Giver and the Source of all human rights. Due to their Divine origin, no ruler, government, assembly or authority can curtail or violate in any way the human rights conferred by God, nor can they be surrendered.....
If we Muslims desire the full protection of the human rights for the world’s Muslim minorities as an ‘Ummah’, we must ensure that the non-Muslim citizens living in the Muslim majority countries are accorded the same rights and privileges that we Muslims seek to achieve in the non-Muslim nations. In order to achieve this, I would like to offer concrete solutions and final recommendations derived from the Madina Charter of Human Rights (Misaq-e-Madina)—the first ever written constitution of the world formulated by the Muhammad (peace be upon him)……
In addition to its violations in Yemen, Saudi Arabia continues to target human rights defenders inside the country. In fact, the rights situation in the kingdom, an absolute monarchy, has markedly deteriorated with a renewed crackdown against human rights defenders since the accession of Mohammad bin Salman as Crown Prince in June 2017. The environment for human rights defenders has become increasingly dangerous as authorities systematically target them on a daily basis....
And let’s be honest: When it comes to the death penalty, the United States is hardly in a position to preach. There were 2,832 people on death row there at the end of 2016, according to Amnesty International. Still, too many await death by hanging in Egyptian prisons. What Egyptian can forget the notorious judge who, after a cursory trial of a few sessions lasting just minutes, sentenced more than 680 people to death in April 2014 for the killing of one police officer?...
He may think it is all part of confronting Iran; or he may want to support the liberalising reforms of the Saudi crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman; or he may hope to profit by selling the Saudis “lots of beautiful military equipment”. Whatever the case, he is damaging America’s interests. Precisely because of the importance of Saudi Arabia—the world’s biggest oil exporter and home to Islam’s two holiest places—the West should urge restraint on the impetuous prince and help disentangle him from an unwinnable war....
As an Indian and as a student of history, I was disappointed by what I saw in Turkey. We have close cultural ties with the Turkic people, from before the time when Turks actually came to Turkey about 1,000 years ago. Most of the Islamic rulers of India were actually Turkish. Mahmud Ghazni was of Turkish origin, Babur was a Chagatai Turk and Tipu of Mysore called himself “Sultan” because he also claimed Turkish ancestry. ...
Human Rights Watch has confirmed that the bodies of 21 of the over 90 people secretly detained in 2016 were subsequently found dead with at least nine other men remaining missing. Most people the Bangladeshi authorities illegally and secretly detain are opposition activists, or alleged militants – however, state law enforcement agencies do also at times pick up people who are perceived by the government as causing it difficulty or embarrassment or otherwise useful to it...