May, 2013

• 21 May

  Russia Sends at Least 12 Warships to Syria By Times of Israel staff

  

  Deployment presumably a warning to Israeli and Western officials regarding military intervention against Assad   -"Times Of Israel"– In a move considered aggressive by US and European officials, Russia has sent at least 12 warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Tartous, Syria. The deployment appears to be a warning to Israeli and Western officials against military intervention …

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• 21 May

  Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns By Paul Craig Roberts

  

  Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance the US budget deficit …

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• 21 May

  The Islamic Universe By Dr. Spahic Omer

  

  Islam is a religion that inevitably leads to the creation of a virtuous comprehensive culture and civilization which benefits not only Muslims, but also non-Muslims and all the other worldly creatures as well. Islam also creates individuals who through a complex hierarchy of institutions and establishments are organized in a community (ummah) which is well equipped to meet the challenges …

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• 20 May

  U.N. General Assembly Condemns Syria as Sceptics Multiply By Thalif Deen

  

  Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, addresses the Assembly on May 15. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider UNITED NATIONS, May 15 2013 (IPS) – When the 193-member General Assembly voted Wednesday to condemn the beleaguered government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, there was an increase in the number of sceptics who neither supported nor opposed the …

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• 15 May

  Womens rights/status in Islam and other civilizations

  

  The status of women in Islam is often the target of attacks in the secular media. The ‘hijaab’ or the Islamic dress is cited by many as an example of the ‘subjugation’ of women under Islamic law. Before we analyze the reasoning behind the religiously mandated ‘hijaab’, let us first study the status of women in societies before the advent …

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• 14 May

  U.N., Fluent in Anglo-French, Seeks to Go Multilingual By Thalif Deen

  

  When Egypt’s onetime Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali was running for the post of U.N. secretary-general in late 1991, he had to contend with the candidature of Bernard Chidzero, then foreign minister of Zimbabwe. As the campaign began to intensify, Boutros-Ghali recounted a brief encounter with Chidzero, a longstanding friend, at a conference in Africa, a continent which at that time …

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• 14 May

  An Islamic perspective on Muslim – Buddhist dialogue – Compiled by Latheef Farook

  

  This important need is being increasingly felt today than ever before due to ever increasing violence and bloodshed , ethnic conflict, religious strife and many other challenges that are threatening the stable social order, peace and security. Dr. M A M Shukri – Director Jamiah Naleemiah-Beruwala Many conferences are being held in various part of the world in the form …

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