November, 2012

• 28 November

  A Toy can be a Joy… 10 tips to guide parents when buying toys By Umm Ammarah

  

    Every year parents spend billions on toys and gadgets and manufacturers spend millions on marketing it. Whether it is in the tens, twenties, hundreds or thousands that we spend on toys as Muslims, it is an amanat (trust) on how we spend our wealth. We will be accountable to Allah Ta’ala for how we have earned and spent it. …

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• 26 November

  10 Reasons to Visit Sri Lanka By Imtiaz Muqbil

  

    The historic transition towards an Asian Century is generating a treasure trove of both symbolic and real images of the shift from swords-to-plowshares. One of the most thought-provoking is the conversion of Sri Lanka’s former military headquarters in a prime location on the Colombo seafront into an area for mega-projects. Once dotted with grim, heavily-fortified garrisons and gun barrels …

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• 26 November

  Palestine Solidarity Day By Ishara Mudugamuwa | SL calls for restraint in Gaza

  

  Palestine Solidarity Day celebrations will be held on November 28 under the patronage of Senior Minister for Rural Affairs and Sri Lanka-Palestine Solidarity Committee president Athauda Seneviratne. A photographic exhibition will be held at the BMICH in line with Palatine Solidarity Day celebrations to commemorate the eighth death anniversary of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Palestinian ambassador to Sri Lanka …

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• 26 November

  Cristiano Ronaldo donates ‘Golden Boot’ worth €1.5 million to Palestinian children By Shahid Abbasi

  

    London: Real Madrid iconic forward Cristiano Ronaldo has donated €1.5 million to Palestinian children in Gaza, the Arabic version of the club’s Classico network reports. The star forward gave his Golden Boot which he earned in 2011 to the Real Madrid foundation, RT.com reports. The Spanish giants in their turn sold it at auction and will now donate the funds to schools in Gaza, …

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• 26 November

  Coup and counter-coup in Washington By Webster G. Tarpley

  

    General David Petraeus, former CIA director Sometimes, generals purge politicians. In 1648, during the English Civil War, Colonel Pride and his troops removed those members of the Long Parliament who opposed military domination; the puppets who remained were called the Rump Parliament. This year, a cabal of generals evidently believed it could secure the White House for Mitt Romney …

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• 23 November

  Terrorists behind Benghazi attack but CIA files were altered, says Petraeus

  

  SCANDAL: David Petraeus resigned as director of the CIA over his affair with biographer Paula Broadwell By Kimberly Dozier Saturday November 17 2012   Former CIA director David Petraeus told US lawmakers during private hearings he believed all along that the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Libya was a terrorist strike, even though the Obama administration initially …

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• 23 November

  22nd Anniversary of Northern Muslim Expulsion by LTTE By D.B.S Jeyaraj

  

    The past week recorded the 22nd anniversary of a cruel, inhuman episode in the history of Tamil –Muslim relations in Sri Lanka. It was in October 1990 that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE)organization forcibly expelled the Tamil speaking Muslim people from the Northern Province in an atrocious act amounting to ethnic cleansing. Within a few days the Muslims …

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