Muslim Issues

  It is time that our big brother India practises towards its own minority of around 150 million Muslims throughout the country in general and Kashmir in particular what it preaches to Sri Lanka on   minority rights.   Time and again Indian government officials from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to other top officials insist Sri Lankan government of the need …

  The United Nations made a mockery of itself with its May 2010 Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran, fourth in the series, for not halting its nuclear program. This is yet another demonstration of UN Security Council being exploited by the United States led Europe to implement their evil designs on countries, especially Muslim countries, which fail to …

  Christopher Bollyn is an American journalist and researcher. He is widely known for his extensive researches on the September 11, 2001 attacks which reveal that Israel has been complicit in planning and carrying out the terrorist attacks that cost the lives of 2,976 victims and left more than 6,000 injured. The U.S. government under ex-President Bush introduced the paramilitary …

  The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and costly to the country’s image. But one more blunt truth must be acknowledged: the occupation is morally repugnant. On one side of a barbed-wire fence here in the southern Hebron hills is the Bedouin village of Umm al-Kheir, where Palestinians live in ramshackle tents and …

  We’ve all had intense moments. For me, one such moment happened while standing on the rooftop of Masjid al-Haram. Above me was only sky, below me, the most beautiful view of the Kaba’a and an acute sign of Allah, this life, and the life to come. I was surrounded by an overwhelming crowd – that exists nowhere else on …

United States: Victory as protesters and union block Israeli ship unloading at Oakland Port. In a historic action and unprecedented action today, more 800 worker and community activists blocked the gates of the Oakland docks in the early morning hours, prompting longshore workers to refuse to cross the picketlines where they were scheduled to unload an Israeli ship. From 5:30 …