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Times Of India NEW DELHI: Aggressively pitching for $1 trillion worth of Sharia-compliant funds from the Gulf countries for investments in its infrastructure development, the UPA government has drafted a report on Islamic banking even as RBI and the finance ministry are jointly working on necessary legislative changes to implement the same. A committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary …
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Jews, Muslims can defeat common enemies, By Imam Mohammad Shamsi Ali and Rabbi Marc Schneier
American Jews and Muslims can defeat a common enemy by working together. That common enemy is prejudice – and if one needed statistical evidence for it, stark proof was revealed this week. A Gallup poll found that 43 percent of Americans admit to at least “a little” prejudice against Muslims, and that such self-reported feelings are strongly linked to the …
Read More »AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN
Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it’s profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when …
Read More »The Arab Time Capsule: Once You Were the Leaders of Islamic Civilization, by Mahboob A. Khawaja
"Are there any Muslim leaders open to listening and learning for their own good and capable to articulate a navigational change to serve the interests of the Muslim Ummah?" ?It is highly probable that but for the Arabs modern European civilization would never have arisen at all; it is absolutely certain that but for them, it would not have …
Read More »Islamic Finance. An opportunity at a time of Crisis, By Nafis Alam, – School of Business – Monash University Sunway campus, Malaysia
© Islamic Finance Today Nafis Alam is currently attached to the School of Business at Monash University Sunway campus, where he works as Lecturer (Islamic Finance) and has also embarked on a PhD program in Islamic Finance. Nafis has co-authored the ?Encyclopedia of Islamic Finance? which is a first of its kind. Islamic banks operating under the guided principles of …
Read More »THE TREACHERY BEHIND THE HAITIAN TRAGEDY, By AMEEN IZZADEEN
The history of any country is replete with lessons that help it to shape a better future. But not Haiti’s. To use a cliché, its history is a history that repeats itself. Military coups are a common occurrence. Poverty is a perpetual enemy which is yet to be defeated. Social ills such as corruption, prostitution, armed gangsterism and narcotics have …
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