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A Nation Raped and Ravaged

Iraq after six years of US led invasion: Iraq, a land where many great ancient civilisations such as Mesopotamian, Sumer, Akkad, Babylonian and Assyria flourished between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers for more than 7,000 years, has been ruthlessly raped and ravaged by the European colonial powers followed by the United States to loot its oil wealth for more …

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What the Middle East can learn from Southeast Asia Samuel Rizk

Washington, DC – An argument could be made that the Middle East, as the birthplace of the Abrahamic religions, is a centre of dialogue between Muslims and Christians. Where their holiest places of worship and pilgrimage exist, Muslims and Christians have provided models of historical co-existence and cooperation. But when there is tension, either for religious reasons or when sacred …

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Details Of Halaal Certificates Issued

All Ceylon jamiyyathul ulama details of halaal certificates issued on Certified poultry processing facilities Certified restaurant facilities Certified food processing facilities Certified tea processing facilities Certified facilities-imports Certified oil extraction facilities & medicines Certified beauty care processing facility Certified activated carbon processing facility Please Download the  DETAILS OF HALAAL CERTIFICATES ISSUED PRODUCTS – in Sri Lanka. Beaware All ceylon jamiyyathul …

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Jehad and the truth

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) …

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Manufacturing Fear

If I write a column arguing that Bernard Madoff, a Jew by birth, cheated mostly Christian investors of billions of dollars, you will rightly call me crazy. If I argue that some Jewish religious organizations that received money from Madoff were thriving on the loot, you will rightly call me insane. If I whisper that Madoff was a supporter of …

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The moderate Muslim: An endangered species? – by Nazeeya Faarooq

here is an endangered species out there – strangely it is not an animal, or bird or plant but is in fact a human being – it is the moderate Muslim. Many hundreds of years ago, the moderate and modern Muslim was alive and well and vocal. It was they who engineered and flourished in the great Islamic empires of …

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