International Affairs

A fascinating survey of the evolution of the concept of jehad. HE highest form of jehad is to speak the truth in the face of an unjust ruler.” This one saying of Prophet Muhammad suffices to demolish the myth about jehad, fostered, alike, by the fundamentalists and very many in the West and, not to overlook, in India. Ijtihad (reason) …

In the latest of US-Israeli war crime ,  on 27 Saturday  December 2008, Israel  using United States supplied latest weapons, F.16 warplanes and Apache helicopter gunships  dropped 100 tons of bombs  on 1.5 million  defenseless and starving Palestinians  and indiscriminately and mercilessly killed 220 Palestinian men, women, children and the aged and wounded hundreds .Israel arrogantly claimed that  this  is …

Sri Lanka has been in the forefront in supporting the just cause of Palestinians who were robbed of their land at gun points to establish a state for Jews who were brought in from Europe and the Middle East. This support was based on sheer conviction .In this regard the Island’s Muslim community and the mainly left political parties remained …