By Glenn Greenwald September 24, 2014 "ICH" – "The Intercept" – – The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan. That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama—after Afghanistan, …

False rumours and myths continued to be spread that Muslims in Sri Lanka would overtake the Sinhala Buddhist population before the turn of the century though official statistics proved otherwise, former Member of Parliament M.M. Zuhair. PC said at the English Course Awards Day ceremony of GPL Organisation held at Arafa National School in Weligama on Monday. The former Sri …

​In a televised speech on Wednesday 10 September 2014, President Barack Obama outlined what he described “as a reasonable strategy” for attacking the so called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, renamed Islamic State -IS. He said “We will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq.  Instead, this will be a war where others mainly Iraqi soldiers fight on …

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is pleased to allocate Scholarships for meritorious but financially needy Muslim Students in Sri Lanka, who are selected for admission to the University for Agriculture, Dental, Engineering, Medicine Veterinary faculties. The Students will be paid Stipends thrice a year plus grants for books clothing each year. The IDB Scholarship is a grant from the IDB …

The old poem that most American school children recognize begins “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” Indeed, in the year 1492, Christopher Columbus (whose real name in Italian was Cristoforo Colombo) sailed across the Atlantic in the name of the Spanish crown and landed in the Caribbean part of North America. For hundreds of years, it has simply been …