Eid al-Mab’ath: The Greatest Ever Day

SHAFAQNA- What is the significance of Mab’ath that we religiously celebrate each year on Rajab 27?

Muslims across the world celebrate Eid al-Mab’ath – the rise of Muhammad as a prophet

SHAFAQNA – Muslims worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Mab’ath, the day when Prophet Mohammad was appointed to prophethood by God. 

“Real Muslims don’t support violence.” by Nour Youssef

SHAFAQNA-  As a young Muslim woman living in Canada, it’s a phrase all too familiar to me. I feel pressured by everyone around me to regularly apologize for the horrific acts committed by extremists all around the world. I fear my religion will always be used to explain my behavior. I have to constantly smile and be happy because I don’t want to come off as rude or angry; I must remember to go out of my way to show the world that Muslims are not bad people, that we are not terrorists.

Brussels’ attacks – How Belgium was sold radicalism for oil

SHAFAQNA – However tragic and painfully criminal Brussels’ terror may have been it is our reaction to such attacks which will ultimately determine their success … and I would hope their failure. While there is little doubt as to whose hands were in fact involved in such senseless bloodshed, it is terror’s patrons, and terror’s agenda which still remain elusive. Rather it has been the greater public’s inability to perceive terror’s ambitions and goals which has played to our collective disadvantage – allowing for criminals to cloak themselves as righteous defenders of liberty and democracy, when their aims remain inherently nefarious.

Christians persecution is real … but Muslims are NOT to blame

SHAFAQNA – Christians across the Middle East have suffered a great deal over the past years – hunted down by radical militants, communities have been displaced, their places of worship defiled and many of their people murdered, or enslaved. Being a religious minority in the Middle East has never been more dangerous … yet we have grossly failed to identify those powers which have engineered such violence.