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Message from Drogheda, Ireland: The Irish Town that Received Aid from the Ottoman Khilafah During the Potato Famine

Published by Women’s Section of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

In the 1840’s, when Ireland was in the grip of a great famine in which more than 1 million died, its people were blessed with a huge act of generosity and compassion from a state thousands of miles away: the Uthmani Khilafah (Ottoman State). This state, ruled by Islam, sent 3 ships full of aid to […]

Protesters Topple Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II Statues in Canada

Published by Muhammad Hamzah

Canadian protesters have torn down and defaced statues of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II in anger over the historical treatment of indigenous people. Demonstrators gathered in Winnipeg, Manitoba to highlight abuses under Canada’s residential schools system, which saw at least 150,000 indigenous children forced away from their families to assimilate them into Canadian society.