January, 2013

• 3 January

  Firebrand Shiite cleric al-Sadr voices support for Sunni protesters angry at Iraq’s government By Adam Schreck

  

    Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013. The anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr voiced support for Iraqi Sunni protesters who have been rallying against the country’s Shiite-dominated central government and said the demonstrators have the right to demonstrate as …

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• 3 January

  The Uniques Malay Club celebrates 90th Anniversary

  

    The Uniques Malay Club which was founded in June 1922 reached 90 years last year but due to the logistics of bringing together its members living abroad the official celebrations will be held on Sunday Jan. 06, 2013 at the Lavinia Breeze Hotel Mt Lavinia. In a country where the mortality rate of social organizations is high, to have …

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• 3 January

  Israel Severs Ties with with UN Human Rights Group – Islamic Human Rights Commission on Israel.

  

    JERUSALEM, Israel — Israel announced Monday it has cut ties with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The council, prompted by the Palestinian Authority, was set to investigate the impact of Jewish communities in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) on Palestinian rights. In a 36-1 vote, with 10 abstentions, the council decided it would send a fact-finding commission …

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• 3 January

  Henry Kissinger: ‘No Israel in 10 years’

  

    Cindy Adams in her column at the New York Post, quoted Henry Kissinger predicting that if the current isolation of the Zionist entity continues – the Zionist entity will be gone within next 10 years.   “Reported to me, Henry Kissinger has stated – and I quote the statement word for word: “In 10 years, there will be no …

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• 2 January

  Improved governance necessary to address anti-minority sentiment By Jehan Perera

  

    The great hopes of a leap forward to a new era that came with the end of the war have now been dispelled. The anticipated prosperity and inter-ethnic reconciliation that was expected to be Sri Lanka’s after the war has still not materialized. The continuing bailouts of loss making government enterprises and the impeachment of the Chief Justice are …

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• 2 January

  THE SCOURGE OF ZIONISM.

  

    As a Muslim, I believe that Jesus Christ (Peace be upon him – Pbuh) is also a Prophet of Islam. As was Adam, Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Jacob etc. Islam is the only non-Christian religion that makes it an article faith for its followers to believe in Jesus Christ as a Prophet. The Holy Quran absolves him from all the …

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• 1 January

  SLMC alarmed by religious intolerance, attempt to abolish PCs

  

    The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress has, in a resolution unanimously adopted on Saturday, noted ‘with grave concern the intensity and widespread religious intolerance’ and ‘attempts to stall progress in devolution by weakening or abolishing the provincial council system’.   The following is the full text of the Resolutions unanimously adopted at the 24th Delegates’ Conference of the SLMC:   …

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