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Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, Page -4
Page 1 – https://sailanmuslim.com/news/universal-islamic-declaration-of-human-rights/ Page 2 – https://sailanmuslim.com/news/universal-islamic-declaration-of-human-rights-page-2/ Page 3 –https://sailanmuslim.com/news/universal-islamic-declaration-of-human-rights-page-3/ 1. Right to Life Human life is sacred and inviolable and every effort shall be made to protect it. In particular no one shall be exposed to injury or death, except under authority of the Law. Just as in life, so also after death, the sanctity of a person’s body shall be inviolable. It …
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More than 30 privacy and civil liberties organisations have filed a formal petition with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), urging the federal agency to shut down the use of 'full body scanners' (FBS) at the nation's airports. At a press conference, Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC), one of the signatories to the petition, said, …
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We in the modern world often tend to look at the hadd punishments prescribed in the Shari’ah as something really harsh. Beheading for murder, stoning to death for adultery and amputating hands for theft sometimes strike us as punishments that belong to another age and unsuited for the times we live in. However little do we stop to think that …
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Every so often, a convergence occurs between a few ostensibly unrelated events in the endless swirl of news stories, polemics and propaganda, spin and advertising that make up the media sphere today. Like the noonday sun, they pierce a hole through the fog of information that normally obscures the core dynamics behind the larger political-economic system’s smooth functioning. But unlike …
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