Islam is a faith of dignity and free people from all backgrounds, not defined by slavery. History doesn���t support your bold misinformation, do better.
@SeaPointMartyrs@IrfaanMangera Slavery existed across many societies, and Islam encouraged its humane treatment and liberation. Reducing a whole faith to that claim is ignorant.
The notorious British Zionist propagandist, Melanie Phillips, recently said that Jews and supporters of Israel should engage in “psyops” and psychological warfare with those who support and sympathise with Palestine.
The release of South African activists who joined the Global Sumud Flotilla is not merely a story of detention and return. It is a reminder that Gaza continues to test the conscience of the world, writes Nesma Darwish.
https://t.co/R870c1HuBU
Around eight years before Madinah became the centre of the first Muslim polity, Islam’s first sanctuary was found across the Red Sea in Africa, writes @Nini_Rahim.
https://t.co/rpj0jYbY7h
Long before modern migration debates and xenophobic tensions gripped South Africa, Malawian Muslims were already helping build Johannesburg through the brutal labour systems of colonial mining capitalism, writes @Nini_Rahim.
https://t.co/9L0O2Sv6l5
“Those [Muslims] who speak of the Kaaba and Madina should permanently go and live there.”
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of India’s Assam state, launched a tirade against Muslims over their love and attachment to the holy cities of Makkah and Madina.
An Irish man filmed himself racially abusing and harassing Muslim women in Dublin, shouting: “You’re not in Somalia!”
The incident comes amid rising Islamophobia and growing hostility towards visibly Muslim women across Europe.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has come under mounting international criticism after releasing footage showing Global Sumud Flotilla detainees kneeling with their hands zip-tied following Israel’s interception of the civilian aid mission in international waters en route to Gaza.
https://t.co/RVHklvlLku
All Global Sumud Flotilla activists, including six South Africans, are expected to be deported to Istanbul after being released from Israel’s Ktziot Prison.
Legal rights organisation Adalah condemned the interception of the flotilla, the kidnapping of activists, and their degrading mistreatment in Israeli custody.
The activists were part of a civilian-led mission attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and challenge Israel’s continued blockade on the besieged enclave.
At least five Ethiopian businessmen were killed in targeted, execution-style attacks in Johannesburg’s Central Business District between late April and early May 2026. Investigators are exploring several possible motives.
Ethiopian community leaders allege the killings are linked to a coordinated campaign of intimidation targeting Ethiopians cooperating with police investigations into organised criminal activity within sections of the community.
OPINION: As the Horn of Africa becomes an increasingly contested geopolitical battleground, Israel and the UAE are deepening their influence in Somalia through strategic alliances, ports and security agreements, writes Mohammed Kahiye.
https://t.co/AML75xWCn7
Soweto is widely known as Johannesburg’s “South Western Township”, which shocked the world in 1976 when the apartheid regime unleashed violence on black schoolchildren protesting against an education system designed to keep them oppressed, subservient and economically trapped.
Fifty years later, the township stands as both a symbol of resistance and a reminder of the unfinished promises of post-apartheid South Africa.
https://t.co/7duWMATaCw
Long before colonial borders carved Africa into nation states, Fulani pastoralists, traders and Islamic scholars moved across the Sahel carrying cattle, commerce and Qur’anic learning from the Atlantic coast deep into the African interior, writes @Nini_Rahim
https://t.co/0TwUHFstal
With Hajj season upon us, millions of Muslims around the world are preparing to fulfil one of the greatest obligations in Islam.
This infographic highlights the top 10 Muslim countries in Africa with the highest number of pilgrims set to perform Hajj this year.
Executive Editor of ONM, Dilly Hussain, featured on @InxPrime with Maryam Mkwanda to discuss the importance of Muslim media and its role in narrative building through an Islamic civilisational lens.
https://t.co/sRtez0BAaK