Author: Shahid Bolsen

We have a tendency to want to take all the problems of the Ummah on our shoulders; motivated by the hadith about the Ummah being one body; and we often impose an enormous sense of hyper-responsibility upon ourselves for matters that are well beyond our capability because “we will be asked about the suffering of…

NGOs that simply issue appeals to the government to take action on the Rohingya issue are basically superfluous. It does not require an organisation to pass on responsibility to the authorities. One does not need an NGO in order to do something futile. When supposedly “grassroots” organisations claim to be “taking action”, but are in…