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 …
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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 …
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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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In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days later, when Aziz was driving with his 12-year-old cousin to a village near his home …
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It's an uphill fight, but Muslim activists are trying to reclaim a holy word that's become synonymous with terror MyJihad.org bus ad featuring two volunteers, an American-Muslim and an Israeli-Jew.(Credit: MyJihad.org) So you want to rebrand a word. It’s hard to think of a more difficult rebranding project than “jihad.” Since Sept. 11, the term has become synonymous with …
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Islam requires mother should” breast feed” the child for two years. In this case mother failed in her duty to feed her baby as requested by Hoy Quran. The execution of housemaid Rizana Nafeek who languished in Death Row, in one of the most inhuman environment, in a Saudi prison for almost seven years is nothing but sheer barbarism of …
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