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An Arab organization is to be put on trial in the Netherlands over its publication of a cartoon deemed offensive to Jews, prosecutors say. The cartoon, published by the Arab European League (AEL) on its website, questions the Holocaust. It said the decision to prosecute illustrated bias against Muslims. It said the same standards were not applied to the Dutch …
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Muslims settled by King Senerath in the East reciprocate by resisting ‘Eelam’! by M.M. Zuhair P.C
Ashroff King Senerath, who in 1626 settled nearly 4,000 Muslims in the East of Sri Lanka following their expulsion from the island’s Western coastal belt by the Portuguese led by Captain de Saa, must be the most delighted to hear, if the dead king could, that the descendants of those whom he settled in the then Batticaloa regions had reciprocated …
Read More »The US-Saudi-Wahabi Nexus !, By K Gajendra Singh
“History is ruled by an inexorable determinism in which the free choice of major historical figures plays a minimal role”, Leo Tolstoy 01/01/07 “Information Clearing House” — — When the powerful US Vice-President Dick Cheney made a rare long haul to Riyadh in November , reportedly it was to create against Iran , Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon , a …
Read More »What is the root of Mideast conflict?
Book review of: Jeremy R. Hammond’s ‘The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Israeli-Arab Conflict’ (Lulu, 2009). Reviewed by Jim Miles – VERNON The story of Palestine is poorly represented in western media, generally taken out of context and generally – as a strong cohort to the lack of context – with a …
Read More »Nurturing Islamic Finance In Sri Lanka, By Muath Mubarak
– A post war view of the Sri Lankan economy and the role of Islamic Finance in it Muath Mubarak presently works for First Global Group, a Sri Lanka-based conglomerate of companies involved in the Islamic finance industry. He is a Final level student of CIMA-UK and Associate Fellow Member of Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance (IIBI) – UK, …
Read More »Why the West craves materialism & why the East sticks to religion, By Imran Khan
My generation grew up at a time when colonial hang up was at its peak. Our older generation had been slaves and had a huge inferiority complex of the British. The school I went to was similar to all elite schools in Pakistan. Despite gaining independent, they were, and still are, producing replicas of public schoolboys rather than Pakistanis. I …
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