Celebrating the Centenary of Indian Emancipation
The UWI Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles issues the following statement in recognition of the centenary of the abolition of the Indenture Act. “This year…
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The Ethics of Disagreement
This work, being an exposition of the higher principles and purposes of the Shari’ah, is intended to address opposing Islamic political parties. The author analyzes…
Caribbean to Caliphate
Why has the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago become one of the largest recruitment hubs for ISIL in the West? The Caribbean state of…
Deceased top cop’s son killed at home
THE SON of a former police commissioner was shot dead and his wife was injured during a robbery early yesterday morning at their D’Abadie home….
Diversity in the heart of The City
First published in Barbados Today on February 22, 2017. Nestled in a side street of our UNESCO World Heritage-inscribed capital city of Bridgetown is a…
NY Times:Trying to Stanch Trinidad’s Flow of Young Recruits to ISIS
As published by New York Times here ENTERPRISE, Trinidad and Tobago — By the time he was 17, Fahyim Sabur had memorized the Quran. At…
Muslims Were Banned From the Americas as Early as the 16th Century
Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim On…
Middle East: Don’t Go There!
Published by Trinidad Guardian here “Clear my name…” That’s the appeal to the police and Government from Islamic studies scholar Tariq Mohammed who was detained…
Destructive walls of division
The premise of my very first column in Barbados TODAY back in November 2014 was an African proverb, “In crisis, the wise build bridges, while the…
Caribbean Calling: Nourishing Communities of Faith
At the beginning of the blessed month of Rabi’al Awwal 1438, Shaykh Ahmad Saad Al-Azhari will visit the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago….