April, 2012

• 18 April

  Economic Crisis Takes a Bite From Military Spending By Thalif Deen

  UK is one of the countries that have either downsized their defence budgets or made marginal increases in a bid to cut budget deficits.  Credit:US Navy/public domain UNITED NATIONS, Apr 17, 2012 (IPS) – The global economic crisis – which had its origins back in 2008 – has had a spreading negative impact on military spending worldwide, according to a …

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• 17 April

  NEED HELP ! – The Welithara Muslim School is the only Muslim school in the Ambalangoda Education Zone in the Southern Province.

  Most of the children who are studying in this school come from low income families. As our school exists, the children are offered Islamic knowledge and religious studies. Especially Muslim girls are greatly benefitted from this school for their personal and religious life in their pursuit to follow Islam.             But, unfortunately, the number of students of this school has been …

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• 16 April

  Muslims stood with the majority community in defeating terrorism – President Sandasen Marasinghe in Nuwara Eliya

    President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday opened the new building of the Al- Kabeer Grand Jumma Mosque in Nuwara Eliya as the first Sri Lankan President to open a mosque and the first non- Islamic leader in the world to open a mosque. He opened the mosque after receiving the blessings of Buddhist monks at the Nuwara Eliya Buddhist Centre in …

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• 16 April

  The ICC is Criminal By Margaret Kimberley

  The New World Order under U.S. dominion turns international law on its head and puts criminal-bought flunkies on the judicial bench. America, which is not even a signatory to the treaty that created the International Criminal Court, calls all the shots like a Mafia don. Africans and a few Serbs are the only ones that get arrested, while great crimes …

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• 16 April

  The Islamic empires that gave Europe its Renaissance Mesbah UDDIN

  It is quite rare these days to hear anything good about Muslims from the Anglo-American news media. There are, however, some exceptions in the West and Dr. Richard Bulliet, Professor of History Columbia University, New York is one of them. He narrated the scenarios that elevated the Muslims as the Torch Bearers during those Dark Ages of Europe and helped …

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• 16 April

  European Airlines Silence Palestine Protest By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours

  

  JERUSALEM, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) – As 60 percent of the international activists set to land at Ben Gurion airport Sunday had their plane tickets cancelled, organisers of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ fly-in campaign condemned what they say is European complicity in Israel’s illegal restrictions on their right to travel freely. "It’s a sign of capitulation and obedience to illegal …

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• 9 April

  World’s Dictators More Scared of Tweets Than Opposing Armies By Thalif Deen

  Young people are using social networking to drastically alter power dynamics, speak out against human rights abuses and end oppression.  Credit:UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6, 2012 (IPS) – In his keynote address to the Global Colloquium of University Presidents at New York's Columbia University last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of the growing power exercised by …

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