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President Aquino has declared September 10, Friday, a regular holiday in the country in observance of Eid’l Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The holiday declaration on Eid’l Fitr was contained in Proclamation No. 26 signed by the President last Thursday. “To promote cultural understanding and integration, the entire Filipino nation should have the full opportunity to …

  In recent weeks and days, US President Barack Obama earned ten points, lost ten points and earned ten points again with his headline-hitting political moves. On August 14, he earned ten points for standing firm in support of a move to build an Islamic cultural centre and a mosque near Ground Zero where nine Septembers ago two towering structures …

More than forty years after the first Zahirian migrated to Canada, the Old Boys Association was inaugurated on Sunday the 29th August 2010 at the Pak Center Restaurant, in Toronto. This was initiated by the three musketeers M/s Faizal Nazeer, Mohamed Asif and Mohamed Ashrath. There were more than twenty young, very enthusiastic old boys were present to form the …

  American leaders are always trying to assess Osama bin Laden’s level of influence over Muslims.   They should look at his influence over their own countrymen.   The aversion to a proposed Muslim center near Ground Zero shows that it is Americans, not Muslims, whose thinking the terrorist leader has most successfully recast to his advantage.   The detractors strengthen …

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Western media hyped the September 11, 2001 attacks to pave the way for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. "What was the story behind September 11? In the space of five to six days, and with the aid of the media, they swayed public opinion to the point of considering an attack on Afghanistan …