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Sri Lanka Muslim conference was founded in 1977. Its singular vision was to bring together the Muslim Women’s organizations as one united body to work in solidarity to raise the status of women and add quality to their lives. The founder’s vision was manifested in action when initially 17 organizations came together as one in the year following 1976. The …
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Misapplying R2P in Sri Lanka, By Jorge Heine
The concept of Responsibility to Protect has triggered resistance in many countries of the Global South precisely because of its potential misapplication to situations such as the Sri Lankan one. Lakshman Kadirgamar, the former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, was one of the most incisive legal minds of his generation. A former president of the Oxford Union, he made significant contributions …
Read More »CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents by Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh
These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA’s covert “Operation PBSUCCESS,” were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala. After years of answering Freedom of Information Act requests with its standard “we can neither confirm nor deny …
Read More »Christian and Muslim scholars discuss the connection between the two religions
At a seminar titled “Building Bridges,” jointly organized by the archbishop of Canterbury and Bahçeşehir University, held at the university’s Beşiktaş campus on Tuesday, Christian and Muslim scholars discussed the connection between creation and science from the perspectives of both religions. Speaking at the seminar, Bahçeşehir University Rector Deniz Ülke Arıboğan noted that their university attaches great importance to freedom …
Read More »Who says that there is no democracy and freedom in Iran? By Saybhan Samat
One fact has emerged in the running brouhaha before, in and after the presidential elections of June 12th in the Islamic Republic of Iran. For long the Western mass media has projected Iran and its Islamic government as a despotic rule of obscurantist mullahs, with no freedom and democracy whatsoever. In addition they demonized the Islamic government of denying human-rights …
Read More »TAARUF LANKA launches the release of its first CD ” Miracles of Quran” in Sinhala
Dr.M.M.M.Najim, Chairman of the Taaruf Lanka delivers the welcome address Chief Guest Justice Saleem Marsoof hand over the first copy of the Sinhala version of the Miracles of the Quran to Mr.A.Liyavudeen, Chairman of CIS. Chief Guest Justice Saleem Marsoof with the guests of honours Mr. A.Liyavudeen, Chairman of CIS, , Mr.Amjad Saleem, COuntry Director/Muslim Aid, Moulavi Fazal, Chairman of …
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