Voice of Unity (VOU) - Muslim Youth Magazine

The East-West relationship has been debated by many intellectual thinkers for centuries.  Zynab Al-Bahrani explores where Orientalism originated and how its presence still affects world affairs today.
For hundreds of years the debate about ‘Orientalism’ has caused immense controversy between the …

Recent changing attitudes in the UK are typical of trends during times of economic troubles. Ali al-Kadhimi explores the historical and contemporary context of these movements.
On the 11th March 2009 extremist Muslims from the Al-muhajiroun group, a minority fringe group who …

Away from the headlines, an untold massacre is taking place in an area known as Pakistan’s Switzerland. Ali Jawad of the AhlulBayt Islamic Mission investigates the plight of the murdered and mutilated in Parachinar.

Tucked away between soaring snowy-peaks and deep …

Maisam Najafizada explores the controversy that surrounded the proposed Shi’i personal status law in Afghanistan – and in particular its implications for Shi’i Muslim women.
Obama called it ‘abhorrent’, the UN proclaimed it ‘legalised rape within marriage’ and western leaders described it …

With the 60 year-long Palestine-Israel conflict flaring up again in January, Ahsan Ali Mir gives a brief history and discusses the worldwide reaction to the recent war in Gaza.
In this present age, the Palestine-Israel conflict makes its way into the news …

Nafeez Ahmed puts the credit crunch into the context of other global crises and sets out an alternative view Muslims could offer the world.
In the summer of 2008, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warned of the danger of another Great …