Humanity
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Kholood Tahir, Morden In the past few months, we have lived through unprecedented times which will indeed make it to the history books . Covid-19 has rattled the world in such a way that people from all walks of life – the elderly, the young, the rich, the poor – are left fearing for their
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool Due to the economic impact of COVID-19, it is estimated 1.6 billion people are in “immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed”. In contrast, the number of billionaires in the world has reached 2095- none of whom, I would assume, will feel any impact on their economic livelihoods. Previous to the pandemic,
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Dur-e-Shewar Anwar, Manchester On January 30th 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of Covid-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern and life as we knew it began to change. The effects of this pandemic have been globally overwhelming with rolling lockdowns across the world, economic collapse in some of the
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Sitwat Mirza, London Amidst all the hysteria that this pandemic has wrought, we have also witnessed the emergence of an increasingly thoughtful society built on the values of compassion and respect towards humanity. It is now our collective responsibility to maintain this level of heartfelt commitment towards performing humanitarian acts for the greater good. Islam
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool Mankind is a social species. We do not do well separated from each other. ‘Loneliness’, which we often perceive simply as an unpleasant emotion, is more significant than that. It is a biological warning which urges us to seek out other people, in the same way hunger reminds us to find
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Arfa Yassir, Swindon Dear Humans! Generations after generation we have been flying over this beautiful planet. You must have noticed us in many different types and colours. Our community in this part of the world is extremely concerned about the current situation which we have not been able to understand. We continue to notice many
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Seeing images of empty supermarket shelves up and down the country a few weeks ago immediately highlighted the individualistic view of some members of our society which, I must admit, was saddening. It certainly made me doubt how well as a society we would face the impending storm that was the
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool “…whosoever killed a person… it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and whoso gave life to one, it shall be as if he had given life to all mankind…” – Holy Qur’an Chapter 5, Verse 33.[1] What has always interested me about this Quranic verse is the way in
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Arfa Yassir, Swindon Unfortunately the intolerance and polarisation indexes are soaring high across the world, be it Europe, America, Asia or Canada. In my humble observation after the torment of war one lesson of history is whenever a state legislates to marginalise a minority or community it serves as an injection of extremism and
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