For Barbados, preserving the Indian and Muslim experience is therefore not simply an exercise in community history. It is an exercise in preserving Barbadian history.
Muslim Perspectives Radio Program
A broad coalition of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading Muslim organisations has issued a respectful but firm open letter to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, urging her Government to reconsider any expansion of diplomatic, commercial, or security relations with the State of Israel while the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues.
The relevance is that the world we live in today has been shaped by forces that have been many years in the making, and the system is extremely powerful and well entrenched. Most people don’t understand the historical background to the problems faced by societies and nations worldwide.
Every year, Emancipation Day reminds us of one of humanity’s darkest chapters: the transatlantic slave trade. We remember the millions of African men, women and children who were captured, transported across the Atlantic, and forced into lives of bondage. Yet within that history lies a chapter that is too often overlooked: the story of the thousands of Muslims who were among the enslaved.
True emancipation is achieved only when societies reject racism, dismantle systems of discrimination, uphold the equal dignity of every human being, and refuse to build prosperity upon the exploitation of others.
The relationship between Trinidad and Tobago and the State of Israel has once again come under strong criticism from the Islamic Missionaries Guild (IMG) President and the Concerned Muslims of Trinidad and Tobago (CMTT) Public Relations Officer, Imtiaz Mohammed.
The Anjuman Sunnat ul Jamaat Association Inc. (ASJA) has issued a media release expressing concern over the recent vote cast by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago at the United Nations regarding the reappointment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The University of St Andrews has published a remarkable tribute to Dr Mansoor Ibrahim (MB ChB 1966), tracing his extraordinary journey from “Behind the Bridge” in east Port of Spain
