It was repugnant and vile; very much characteristic of Charlie Hebdo publications. In its latest edition, this odious magazine featured a cartoon suggesting that drowned 3-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi would have grown up to be a sex attacker like those migrants accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of women in Cologne on the 31st of December.

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the People’s Revolution in Tunisia, in light of the utter failure of the secular regimes that came consecutively to govern the country, the Women’s Section in the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Tunisia:

In the towns of Madaya, Baqin, and Zabadani in the countryside of Damascus, besieged by the Syrian regime's brutal forces and Iran’s party militia since last July, there are more than 50 thousand civilians, mostly women and children, deprived of food, medical supplies and clean water.

In recent days, international media and social media has been awash with the most heart-wrenching images of the starved, skeletal-like bodies of Muslim men, women, and children from the Syrian village of Madaya. The town has been under siege since July from the brutal Assad regime and other forces loyal to it who have prevented food, medicines and other basic needs from entering it. Consequently a dire humanitarian crisis has…