April, 2016

• 2 April

  Palestine Land Day: Here we shall stay

  

  The Judaisation strategy did not only aim at confiscating lands, but also to undermine the rise of Palestinian leaders. On March 30, 1976, Palestinians marched against an Israeli decision to expropriate 2,000 hectares of land around the Arab villages of Araba and Sakhnin as a part of a plan to "Judaise the Galilee". The Palestinian "Land Day" marked the first …

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• 1 April

  Mr. President, Its Outright Racism

  

  President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decade long era of governance saw unprecedented racism and hate against the minority communities in Sri Lanka.  The Bodu Bala Sena and other Buddhist extremist groups were blamed for this bigotry. It is a well-known fact that the regime change in January 2015 was mainly due to the minority communities voting en-bloc against the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, …

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March, 2016

• 31 March

  Reform Blasphemy Laws Pakistan Told

  

  The Head of Outreach of a pioneering Sri Lankan Islamic organization called on the Government of Pakistan to reform its controversial blasphemy law that mandates the death penalty for those convicted of blasphemy. The call comes in the wake of the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri who was convicted of killing Governor Salman Taseer and subsequent protests and sit-ins by extremist …

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• 30 March

  1900-1918 Ottoman Jerusalem

  

  In its millennia of history, the inhabitants and rulers of the city of Jerusalem have changed countless times, from ancient pagans to Biblical Israelites to Byzantine Christians to Ottoman Muslims. The Ottoman Turks took control of the city in 1517, absorbing it into their empire, which stretched across swaths of North Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Walls built …

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• 28 March

  Singing & Music in Islam – Halal, Haram or Middle Ground?

  

  By Asiff Hussein A topic that still has many Muslims confused is whether singing and music is permissible or prohibited. Many charismatic Muslim speakers today in the rhetorical cherry-picking style of America’s evangelical preachers often take a one-sided view of the issue, and typically rant against musical entertainment in any form. People like Abdul Raheem Green belong to this category …

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• 28 March

  Admission and Scholarship for GCE A/L 2016-2018

  

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• 23 March

  Al- Agil Scholarships

  

  Al- Agil Scholarships 2016 awards Medicine, Engineering and Computer Science. Post Disclaimer | Support UsSupport Us The sailanmuslim.com web site  entirely supported by individual donors and well wishers. If you regularly visit this site and wish to show your appreciation, or if you wish to see further development of sailanmuslim.com, please donate us Donate IMPORTANT : All content hosted on …

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