This summer our (my two youngest and I) journey to understanding collective suffering began with: oppression is not confined to one people or one moment in history. It is a pattern—repeated, documented, and carried across generations.
Fairness is a basic concept, yet it seems to be difficult to achieve. In order for equitableness to be the norm in society, the community and culture have to appreciate and advocate its existence. This is not always the case.
With Canadians being periodically subjected to ill-informed, ignorant, Islamophobic and downright racist rants by invited bigots to Canada who presume to lecture us on the evils of Islam, we should look instead to those with the intelligence and the moral fortitude to critically understand the message of Islam, a message whose core is about peace with justice and human equality.
https://www.cair.com/report/Islamophobia is real. You may have personally experienced it or know a family member, friend or acquaintance who has. This new racism must be made known and fought against. Here are a couple of ways to combat this phenomenon.
Vote. Voting is your right. It is a duty and an obligation. It fulfills the Prophetic duty to stand up for justice and it may very well help save lives. And please don't just vote, vote early and take other people to vote and develop a voice of justice.
While we fight against different forms of slavery that persist today there is a need for even louder faith-based voices against ISIS, which abuses the concept of slavery in Quran to justify their crimes of enslaving prisoners and taking female prisoners as concubines. This article best explains the concept of slavery in Quran and Islam.