Opinion and Analysis Articles

2014.06.26 Guest Contributor, Saajida Malvina highlights the double standards we use when addressing acts of terrorism, and how we’re being played on the massive colonial chessboard. Africa is a vast continent rich not only in natural resources but has fertile land...

2014.06.20 Guest contributor, Fatima Moolla of Timeless Teenz shares her encouraging thoughts on staying permanently fit. Take a peek into the past and we’ll make out that life wasn't a beach. Humankind travelled long distances by foot to survive - to hunt and farm...

2014.06.13 Guest Contributor, Saajida Malvina highlights the double standards we use when addressing acts of terrorism.   The recent kidnapping of almost 300 girls in Nigeria caused a furore across the world via a campaign to #bringbackourgirls. Celebrities and...

  Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News, 2014-06-03   The spiritual rays of Ramadaan beckons beyond the horizon ready to make an appearance, to all those hearts ready to be rejuvenated by this beautiful month. However the question remains: are we ready? Will people embrace...

2014.05.30 Guest contributor, Fatima Moolla of Timeless Teenz shares some of her pre-Ramadan emotions.   I have a burning desire to meet Ramadan. My soul is spiritually starved all year round and aches to be nourished by Ramadan. I want to physically feel some ounce...

2014.05.23  Guest Contributor, Saajida Malvina asks a few important questions about the alleged abduction of the Nigerian schoolgirls.  Boko Haram’s terror mandate to establish a pure Islamic state ruled according to Shariah, has been well publicised throughout the...

  2014.05.13   Guest contributor, teenager herself, Fatima Moolla of Timeless Teenz reminds us not to dodge afternoon maktab, no matter how busy we think we are.   We’re at a crises level with so many parents thinking that they don't need to send their children for...

  umm Abdillah, Radio Islam Programming – 2014.05.12   Let us be heedful whilst bandying about the term “Education” especially “female education” because like it or not, all education is not equal, nor emancipatory, writes Radio Islam’s umm Abdillah.   Pre-94 we were...

  2014.05.08   Guest Contributor, Saajida Malvinah writes about the abduction of young Nigerian schoolgirls by terrorists and reminds us of the words of Desmond Tutu:  “If you are neutral in situation of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”   A...