Letters to Editors
The Media Desk contributes local, national and international news articles for the website and also focuses on news content of the Muslim world. etters commenting on broad issues are also regularly sent to the editors of newspapers Below are a few letters which were sent by the Media Desk and published in newspapers. Bias and negative reporting against Islam has become a very real phenomenon in the media, especially in the international press.
The Darul Ihsan Media Desk primarily monitors the media for Islamaphobic (anti-Islamic) comments and anti-Islamic sentiments made in the mainstream media and interacts positively with media portals conveying the Islamic perspective.
Religious profiling concern for muslims
South Africans generally live in an environment of freedom of speech, religion and expression. This freedom is enjoyed by all who live in this land.
Kudos to Elangeni Green Zone project
The article “Durban’s homeless gardeners take root,” The Mercury, Monday, November 23, refers.
Covid-19: no room for complacency
The article “Act as if you are infected,” Daily News, Monday, November 16, 2020, refers.
New approach to shack fires needed
The article “City steps in to help after devastating shack fire” (Daily News, Thursday, November 5) refers.
Cars set on fire, shops looted
The article “Cars set on fire, shops looted,” (Daily News, October 13) and “Alarm at rise in security costs,” (front page, October 12) refer.
SA’s poor failed by Social Development
In the recent Portfolio Committee meeting of the Department of Social Development, officials were rebuked by all political parties of their failure to deliver much-needed food parcels (for which the Department forked out R 25 million) to the needy during the lockdown.
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Freedom of speech is not an absolute
THE article “Magazine reprints cartoons of prophet,” (The Mercury, September 2 2020) refers.
Corruption is way of life among leaders
THE ARTICLE “President on corruption: the ANC is ‘Accused No 1’,” The Mercury, August 24. refers.
New health services unit is welcome news
THE report “New unit will transform health department,” Daily News, July 21 refers.
Killings call for action, not empty rhetoric
THE article “Farm killings surge across the country,” The Mercury, July7, refers.
Dreadful effect of virus on families
The effect of the coronavirus pandemic on families who have lost their loved ones and especially breadwinners is unprecedented in recent times.
Killings call for action, not empty rhetoric
The article “Farm killings surge across the country,” The Mercury Tuesday, July7 2020 refers.
SA has resolutely stood for the rights of Palestinians
The opinion piece “Outrage grows over Israel comments” and the comment “The ANC stands side by side with the people of Palestine” (The Mercury June 30) refer.
Dreadful effect of virus on families
The effect of the coronavirus pandemic on families who have lost their loved ones and especially breadwinners is unprecedented in recent times.
Pandemic has had an unprecedented effect
The effect on families who have lost their loved ones and especially bread winners due to the Covid-19 pandemic is unprecedented.
Prayer and faith vital in coronavirus crisis
The World Health Organisation has declared that the new coronavirus outbreak is a global health emergency, acknowledging that the disease represents a risk outside of China, where it emerged last month.
