Thursday evening, the 17th of January 2013, saw the first time that the Rt Hon Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party attended an ‘engagement’ meeting with the Muslim community. Over 500 hundred people representing over 300 organisations including women’s groups and youth groups from around the country converged at the Islamic Cultural Centre, Regents …
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Saudi Arabia’s tribal regime By Latheef Farook
American-Zionist wolf in Islamic sheep’s clothing? Ever since the senseless beheading of Rizana Nafeek without a proper trial, Saudi Arabia’s tribal rulers who, for far too long, has exploited Islam to entrench their autocratic regime which many people regard as unIslamic and most oppressive in the planet. A tribal system of government, a repressive royal family given special treatment, …
Read More »The Execution of Rizana A serious Miscarriage of Islamic JusticeThe tragic and shocking news of execution of Rizana Nafeek sends shock- waves to all corners of the island. It gives a wrong picture to the people on the nature and the application of the Isl – By Dr. M.A.M.H. Barry (Attorney-at-Law)
The tragic and shocking news of execution of Rizana Nafeek sends shock- waves to all corners of the island. It gives a wrong picture to the people on the nature and the application of the Islamic law as many people are under the impression that the applicable law in Rizana’s case was derived from Undiluted Islamic Jurisprudence. In fact, Rizana’s …
Read More »Digging for Water, But Striking Oil By Thalif Deen
Children like this boy in Gaza face the worst of water scarcity. Credit: Eva Bartlett/IPS ABU DHABI, Jan 16 2013 (IPS) – The volatile politics of the Middle East have long been dominated by the fluctuating fortunes of a single commodity: oil. But when the oil-blessed region runs out of water, there could be a change in the …
Read More »Saudi slams world reaction to SL maid’s beheading
Saudi Arabia on Sunday criticised world reaction to its beheading a Sri Lankan maid convicted of killing her employer's baby, the official SPA news agency SPA reported. Riyadh "deplores the statements made… over the execution of a Sri Lankan maid who had plotted and killed an infant by suffocating him to death, one week after she arrived in the …
Read More »Maid’s execution: KSA won’t allow any foreign interference – Mohammed Rasooldeen | Arab News
Demonstrators show an image of Rizana Nafeek during a protest in Colombo on January 11, 2013, against her execution. (Reuters) The Kingdom said yesterday that the execution of Rizana Nafeek, a Sri Lankan maid who was convicted of killing a baby in her care in 2005, was carried out according to the laws of the land and statements made by …
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