Opinion and Analysis Articles

Mysterious Helicopters spotted at night actually Spraying Vicks to clear Sinus issues

by Ejaz Khan Helicopters seen hovering in the early hours of the morning are actually spraying Vicks into the air to help with congestion in the winter cold. This is believed to be a new initiative by the Department of Health. Many from the amongst the elderly in...

Building and Maintaining Healthy Relationships

Naseerah Nanabhai 16-06-2021 Healthy relationships have healthy characteristics such as mutual respect, understanding, patience, honesty and maintaining boundaries. They also contain a great deal of compromise, anger control and communication, but ultimately they rely...

Government steps up vaccine roll out with 41 million as the goal

By Zuleikha Ahmed 02:06:2021 As more vaccines have been made available to South Africa and the creation of more vaccine sites, we ask what is being done to ensure that rural communities have the same privileges as the rest of the country. Most of these areas affected...

Losing a loved one

By Mumtaz Moosa Saley 01:06:2021 Our phones buzz daily with funeral notifications reminding us constantly of death. As Muslims, we are taught that we belong to our Creator from a young age, and we will return to him. Many families over the past month have lost...

Budget Speech Has ‘Unmet Expectation’

by Radio Islam | Nov 19, 2021 | Opinion and Analysis, Political (opinion)

By Umamah Bakharia Post Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, the health care...

The Way Forward for ISIS sympathisers

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Jun 8, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming | 2015.06.08 | 20 Sha’ban 1436 H <<LISTEN HERE>> This is part of a Radio Islam series taking apart oft-mentioned contestations of ISIS propagandists. Those who aim ISIS rhetoric at unwitting South African audiences...

Are the origins of Tasawwuf from the pure Sunnah?

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Jun 5, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming | 2015.06.04 | 16 Sha’ban 1436 H <<LISTEN HERE>> This is part of a Radio Islam series taking apart oft-mentioned contestations of ISIS propagandists. Those who aim ISIS rhetoric at unwitting South African...

Explaining the terms Darul Ieman, Darul Kufr, Darul Harb, Darul Ahad ect.

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Jun 4, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

Who and What are the Mur’jiah?

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Jun 3, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming | 2015.06.03 | 15 Sha’ban 1436 H <<LISTEN HERE>> This is part of a Radio Islam series taking apart oft-mentioned contestations of ISIS propagandists. Those who aim ISIS rhetoric at unwitting South African audiences...

Fake Deobandi muhajids and anti-jihad South African ulama?

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Jun 2, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming | 2015.06.02 | 14 Sha’ban 1436 H <<LISTEN HERE>> This is part of a Radio Islam series taking apart the most oft-mentioned contestations of ISIS propagandists. Those who aim ISIS rhetoric at unwitting South African...

Overview of our series | Answering the ISIS propagandists in our midst (Part 1-6)

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Jun 1, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

Umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming | 2015.06.01 | 13 Sha’ban 1436 H The terror organisation we’ve come to call Da’esh, ISIL or ISIS loves publicity. Letter writing, glossy magazines, photographs, videos, instant messaging, blogs, and social media are the primary...

Radio Islam hosts well-received Rohingya Day

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | May 27, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming | 2015.05.27 | 08 Sha’ban 1436 H On Wednesday, 27 May, Radio Islam hosted a “Rohingya Day” when our entire programming spotlight was on the history, discrimination by the government, economic marginalisation and human rights...

South African in Syria: How Maseeha of Bela-Bela became Muallima of Idlib

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | May 21, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

Umm Abdillah | Radio Islam Programming | 21 May 2015 | 02 Sha’ban 1436 ((( Listen to the Audio here ))) Last week, a video made by a charity group “Live Updates” ‘an aid organisation working in the heart of Syria’ went viral. It pinged across the interwebs and...

Christian charity: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others have always supported Omar Khadr

by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | May 16, 2015 | Opinion and Analysis

umm Abdillah | Radio Islam Programming | 2015.05.16 | 26 Rajab 1436 AH Image Credit While attending a conference in northern Alberta, Canada last year, Archbishop Desmond Tutu took time out to telephone Omar Khadr. At the time he was being held in Bowden prison...

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