The 8th of March this year marked the 110th International Women’s Day (IWD). It is a day on which many organisations and individuals try to raise awareness about the many struggles and problems facing women globally, and to call for greater gender parity in political, economic and social life. For 2021, the UN announced its theme for IWD as: “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World.”

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Al-Waqiyah Channel was to host a discussion tonight with sisters from Turkey regarding the impact of the loss of the Khilafah (Caliphate) upon the lives of women globally over this last century. However, due to the regular and continuous arrests of our Muslim brothers, sisters and even youth in Turkey who are calling for the Khilafah by the secular Turkish regime.... we have had to cancel…

For the past 100 years, after the Uthmani Khilafah was dismantled, the Muslim Ummah and its lands have been on the receiving end of an onslaught of violent exploitation, wars, economic instability, ethnic rivalries, environmental degradation, and an educational system that both underhandedly and forcefully imposed Western culture and languages on the Muslims. This has left the Ummah feeling lost and in a state of confusion.

In an online guest appearance by Tony Blair at the Washington Institute on January 11th 2021 titled, ‘Geopolitics 2021 - America, The Middle East, and the World’ he said the following: “My view is very clear and the Middle East still matters and it matters enormously. It matters because it’s in the Middle East that the future of Islam will be decided...