The political class does not hesitate to implement the broad foreign agenda and the American agenda in particular. Since the visit of the US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Thomas Shannon Jr, to Lebanon at the beginning of last September, there have been a series of events within the country.

The ruling faction in Tunisia is marking the 15th of October 2016 as the 53rd anniversary of the departure of the last French soldier from Tunisia on the 15th of October 1963. They are taking ‘the departure’ as evidence for independence and liberation from colonialism and as a major point in respect to the building of a modern state.

• When the revolution approaches the end of its sixth year, while its errors accumulate, its deviations abound and the wrongdoers are not taken to account, and the oppressors are not stopped, ignoring the Messenger of Allah’s (saw) warning

The tragic murder of Imam Jalal Uddin (May Allah give him Rahmah) is an unprecedented event for our community. We pray that Allah (swt) forgives his sins and grants him Jannah and that the community supports his family in whatever way is needed.