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A Future With Hope Or With Fatalistic Trepidation – OpEd

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27.02.2026

During President Trump’s State of the Union address, two Muslim Democratic Representatives, Tlaib, a Palestinian American, and Omar, a Somali American, criticized Trump for hard-line immigration crackdowns, and its immigration enforcement actions. Both Omar and Tlaib shouted “you’re killing Americans” at Trump during his speech, with Omar also calling him a liar. Trump responded the next day, declaring the two Muslim Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, should be “institutionalized” (as crazy) and sent back to “where they came from”. 

As the Qur’an states: ˹Watch for˺ the Day when every soul will be presented with whatever good has been done. And each will wish that its misdeeds were far off.  Allah warns you about Himself as Allah is Ever Gracious to ˹His˺ servants.” (Quran 3:30)

Depression, the leading cause of disability worldwide, is a mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people of all ages worldwide. People who attended religious services at least once a week were significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning, according to new research led by Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health. And persistently engaging in negative thinking patterns raises the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, reported a UCL-led study of people aged over 55.

Without urgent policy reform and action, over half the world’s adult population (3.8 billion) and a third of all children and adolescents (746 million) are forecast to be living with overweight or obesity by 2050, an unparalleled threat of premature disease and death at local, national, and global levels, according to a major new analysis published in The Lancet.

Warming oceans are fueling a surge of extreme, off-the-charts storms—so powerful that scientists say it’s time to invent a whole new hurricane category. Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous.

And billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive agriculture and warming temperatures. Nearly half of the 261 species studied showed big enough losses in numbers to be statistically significant and more than half of those declining are seeing their losses accelerate since 1987, according to the journal Science. 

Many Jews, Christians and Muslims believe the war of Gog and Magog (Gog u-Magog in Hebrew and “Yajuj and Majuj” in Arabic) is coming in the 21st century. Prophet Muhammad warned us of a group of extremists who would emerge, claiming to be more religious than all others but causing great harm to........

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