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Vacancies for Economic and Geography Lecturers – Jamiah Naleemiah Jamiah Naleemiah Needs Muslim Male Economic / Geography Lecturers for A/L, GAQ, B.A Students. Interview will held on 10th of May 2011 at 10.00AM in Administration Building, Jamiah Naleemiah. Participation Notes: Degree in Arts including relevant Subjects. Degree wit h Special in Economic / Geography is Preferable. …
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A new chance in Egypt for Islamic finance – Source : Reuters
Covered head-to-toe in a black abaya embroidered with red and yellow flowers, Amal Abbas waits for her turn to place a deposit at Cairo's Al Baraka Egypt Bank, one of Egypt's two fully-fledged Islamic banks. Although Egypt is considered the birthplace of Islamic finance, which adheres to Islamic principles banning interest and speculative trading, its growth has lagged due to …
Read More »Little mosque on the tundra By PATRICK WHITE
Journey of the Midnight Sun Mosque from Nilufer Rahman on Vimeo. In Islam, much depends on the sun. The devout offer a prayer at sunrise and another at sunset. Simple enough in most of the Muslim world. But a little tricky in Yellowknife, land of the midnight sun, noontime dim and North America's northernmost mosque. At this time of …
Read More »‘The Palestine Cables’: Obama administration killed off independent U.N. investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza by crescentandcross
by Alex Kane It was a shocking event in a twenty-two day assault filled with them: the Israeli military shelled a United Nations compound in Gaza City January 15, where humanitarian aid like fuel and water pumping stations were stationed as well as hundreds of Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment. John Ging, the Gaza Director of Operations of the …
Read More »The good book, re-edited By Greg Burk
Retranslations in the latest New American Bible are another step in lessening ill will between Jews and Roman Catholics. Pope Benedict XVI walks into the Auschwitz complex, where he made a plea for reconciliation and asked why God had allowed such "unprecedented horror" to happen. (Diether Endlicher / AP Photo) Despite the anti-Semitic ranting of Mel Gibson, the public gulf between …
Read More »Utah church offers free Korans in Easter gesture By James Nelson
(Reuters) – A Utah church is giving away free copies of the Koran in an Easter season ecumenical riposte to the recent burning of the Islamic holy book by a controversial Florida pastor. The Wasatch Presbyterian Church has ordered 50 copies of the Koran to be distributed at a local bookstore starting on Monday. "We're not promoting Islam, we're not …
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