Voices for peace
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Under the banner of Voices For Peace, Podcast 15 features Iffat Mirza and Danila Jonnud discussing the importance of advocating for peace in our unsettled world.
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot Throughout time and around the world, women have always suffered more than men. It has generally been men in power, men instigating and fighting wars, men making laws while women were at a disadvantage in status, education, marital rights and, more recently, in the workplace where they have had to combat unequal
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Our podcast 14 is the first podcast we have made against the backdrop of #voicesforpeace, a global campaign launched three months ago by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to bring an end to the war in Gaza and establish peace. Ayesha Naseem and Dur-e-Shewar Anwar discuss living through the historical times of the conflict while being
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Amna Shakoor, New Malden “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” – 2nd century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. As Israel continues its strikes on Gaza we have also had the first Ahmadi martyrdom in Gaza, of Sheikh Abu Sardana. Beloved Huzoor, His
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hampshire In Ghassan Kanafani’s short story ‘Letter from Gaza’, written in 1956, the unnamed narrator writes a letter to his childhood friend Mustafa, who has left Gaza and is living in Sacramento. The narrator and Mustafa have had a joint plan since they were young, to leave ‘this Gaza’ and ‘the ugly debris
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Maleeha Mansur, Hayes Learning about World War II at school, I remember being perplexed at how it was possible for such large-scale killing to take place. How could the world witness such atrocities and not stop them? Surely, there was more good in the world? Today, I look at the atrocities being inflicted in Gaza
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Rameen Masood, Leicester Power. An interesting abstract noun. Derived from the Latin word ‘potere’, it means ‘to be able’ or ‘to have the ability’. Well, this means everyone holds power. But there’s a distinction between the types of power. In today’s world, power takes on dual roles— one that serves as an intoxicating poison fuelling
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn Ever since the start of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip following the violence of Hamas on October 7th, the Israeli officials have been citing references from the Bible, which mention the rights of Israelites on the city of Jerusalem and the state of Israel, to justify their war. However, after
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Bareera Ghaffar, Birmingham “My Lord, open out for me my breast, and ease for me my task, and loose the knot of my tongue, that they may understand my speech” – Surah Taha verse 26-29. The last few weeks I have found myself pondering on this verse in a different way than I had been
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