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Al- Aqsa under attack! By: Abdurahman Khan
“We will die strong with our heads up around Al-Aqsa and the church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City. We will never hand over the keys of these holy sites at any price says Father Manuel Musallam, a Christian leader and head of the World Popular Organisation for Jerusalam Justice and Peace. Israel has launched an assault on Palestinian religious sites including Al-Aqsa and the Holy Sepulchre. “This savage attack was a brazen display of unbridled colonial power , and an expression of a culture of hate by Israel
Protesters in Cape Town supporting the call from Palestinians for a global solidarity and unity to defend AL-Aqsa and Palestine. in the ongoing war against Palestinians”, says the spokesperson for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Professor Usuf Chicktay. The Israel occupation forces have been rampaging and desecrating places of worship,
IMRAN KHAN – World Cup winner now Revolutionary!!!
WILL he be banned from politics, jailed, hanged or even assassinated?
By: Hanif Sablay PALESTINIAN Political analyst Jalal Al Fara calls him the modern day ERTRUGRAL GHAZI, the voice of the present day Muslim Ummah. Three days after being bowled out, by a no-ball, (USA/UK/ALLIES regime change playbook), as
Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Imran Khan padded up to start his second innings, this time batting without a helmet and is in a dangerous mood. Captain Khan facing the first ball and in front of a million strong supporters in the city of Peshawar and with millions of viewers watching on television channels and social media platforms, smashed the first ball out of the arena for a six. Whilst the opposition went looking for the ball, he moved along to the city of Karachi and in front of an even bigger audience, he announced his readiness
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Imran Khan lifting the Cricket World Cup in 1992
gassing worshippers ,trouncing civilians, shooting defenceless demonstrators, attacking paramedics and cracking down on journalists”. The professor says that the aim of the Israeli assault is to erase the presence, identity, memory and any sign or a symbol of a
Palestinian relationship to their native land in the attempts by Zionist forces to Judaize Palestine. Palestinians have issued a call for a global solidarity and unity to defend Al-Aqsa and Palestine from a cruel system of domination and crime of apartheid
com.views@gmail.com perpetrated by Israel. The inhumane actions of this apartheid state have not garnered an outpouring of anger and grief from the international community. We call out the glaring hypocrisy of the response to the war in Ukraine. Within weeks trade and economic sanctions were imposed on Russia and overseas assets of pro-Putin oligarchs were seized. We call upon the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Provincial Government to take a stance. We have noted the ongoing refusal on the part of the leadership of both the City of Cape town and Western Cape Government to condemn Israeli atrocities. In the same time, they have taken a very firm stance Continues on page 2
Qiraah at Quds The annual International Qiraah competition took place at the Gatesville mosque on Sunday 24 April. The International Qiraah competition in its 32nd year drew a big crowd.
Quarie Mohsin Qasemi from Iran
The program was opened by a grand entrance led by Moulana Ahmed Tahier and 6 quaries hailing from various countries followed him. Some of them coming from Morocco, Egypt Zanzibar and Iran. Locals that recited were from Durban and Cape Town.
“Zille an embodiment of a political witch” DA Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille’s controversial comment in a radio interview, that “being poor in Langa was better than being poor in other townships” has been lambasted by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
Botoxed face: Helen Zille
More than 700 people were displaced after a fire destroyed more than 300 shacks in Joe Slovo informal settlement. Helen Zille, said that to be poor in Langa was “100, probably 1000 times better than being poor in many of the townships in the rest of the country”. Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Provincial Chairperson Melikhaya Xego said that the EFF condemns her statement in the strongest possible terms her irresponsible and insensitive utterences. “Her statement reveals
the mentality of a racist settler who is an embodiment of her white ancestors who stole our land and later on treated our people with disdain. Zille’s statement is a direct provocation and attempt to undermine the dignity of the people of kwaLanga and as well as black people in general. It is a deliberate spit in the faces of the poor to demonstrate her white privilege. Her audacity to pontificate that black people are better off in squalors, their children exposed to open drains and sewers is a clear reflection of an individual who is completely ignorant and oblivious about the complex material conditions of our people.
This same racist Zille praised colonialism, attributing the infrastructure that was built through the sweat and blood of our people to colonialism and in so doing she ignored the intergeneration pain and trauma suffered by the victims of both colonialism and apartheid. Zille remains a colonial and apartheid apologist who refuses to learn the lesson that her white ancestors who stole our land are the reason why our people continue to live in congested areas that are prone to health hazards and disasters. We are not surprised by her utterances as they can only come from a white racist settler who has neither respect nor regard for black people. Someone who uses and manipulates unsuspecting blacks as pawns and voting fodders in her political chess game. Zille is an embodiment of a political witch whose political witchcraft must
be exorcised through a public condemnation from all corners. She must be reminded that her wrinkled botox will not save her from this public scrutiny.