IslamicLawBlog

Look at the picture above and read below. This picture captures a live spectacle of tyranny. I don’t know who took this picture. Defying customs, the owner has not scribbled his or her identity on the picture. It appears the owner published this picture as a piece of charity for the world to see oppression. I am assuming the woman behind the boy is the boy’s mother. I don’t know where this picture is taken. It could be the Indian-occupied Kashmir, it could be Gaza or West Bank, it could be the Kurdish area in Iraq or Turkey, or it could be somewhere in Libya or Syria. It could be a border area in California or Texas. It could be any place in this big bad world. However, my eyes and my heart tell me this picture is taken in a Muslim occupied land. There are three main characters in the picture: soldiers, boy, and the mother. Let me interpret these three characters as I see them. Grateful to the photographer, I interpret this snapshot to make a few observations. Soldiers Th...

An intimate relationship binds birds and humans. Humans may have fascination for all animals and may make pets out of dogs, cats, fish, and in some cases even bigger animals, such as llamas, goats and cubs. But birds are more than incarcerated pets. (In fact, caging birds and clipping their wings are transgressions against nature.) Birds mesmerize humans with their melodies, colors, feathers and most prominently, flying. Of all created life forms (except angels), only birds aviate with sustained beauty. Most life forms are detainees of the earth's surface, but birds are free, living and breathing above the ground. Caliology, the study of bird nests, reveal how most birds make their nests in trees and high places in the outdoors. Humans may offer artificial bird nests that some birds politely decline. Love birds teach humans the bravery of delicate intimacy expressed in public. They are not reluctant to show sadness or sing solos of loneliness. To some degree, all humans are bird...

Civil war in Yemen

UN does nothing for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar PressTv User The following is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV:  From a humanitarian aspect, why is there no show of sympathy towards the people who have been struck by floods, let alone their being cast away from a land on which they have lived for centuries? Khan:  I think that is one of the problems facing the Rohingya Muslims, that they have no allies and no friends and they are totally dispossessed by the country in which they live and by the countries around them. Rohingya Muslims are ethnically somewhat different from the people in Myanmar. At least the people in Myanmar think that the Rohingya Muslims are mostly from Bangladesh who were moved to Myanmar in the British [time] but that was as you said many centuries ago. So it seems like the local population which is predominantly Buddhist, they are unwilling to accept Rohingyas as part of the national grou...