September, 2011

• 16 September

  How the US Discovered the Maldives in the Aftermath of 9/11 By Michael O Shea

  

    Before 2002, Maldives was over the horizon and off the radar of the American embassy in Colombo charged with following Sri Lankan and Maldivian affairs. Busy with the Sri Lankan civil war at its doorstep, the embassy kept no representative in Maldives. Following the 2001/9/11 attacks, US anti-terrorism responses required the Colombo embassy to fully engage with Maldives for …

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• 15 September

  Forget about your Toothbrush! Try Miswak

  Benefits of Miswak (Chewing Stick) A Miswak or Siwak is probably an alien thing to the western world. But, it’s a twig which a majority of people from Muslim countries use daily to brush their teeth. Although it might sound outdated to use twigs from trees for cleaning your teeth, studies conducted on the Miswak prove otherwise. Studies have inferred …

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• 15 September

  U.N. Racism Meet to Reaffirm Durban Declaration on Palestine By Thalif Deen

  

  UNITED NATIONS, Sep 14, 2011 (IPS) – When a landmark world conference against racism adopted a historic political declaration in the South African port city of Durban back in 2001, the 62-page document covered virtually every conceivable act of racism, xenophobia and racial intolerance worldwide. The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) identified discrimination of all political stripes, including …

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• 15 September

  UK academic wins compensation over terror arrest – AP foreign

  LONDON (AP) — A British academic who was arrested and held in custody on suspicion of terrorism offenses says he has been paid thousands of pounds in compensation. Rizwaan Sabir was detained after attempting to print out an al-Qaida manual as part of his research — though police did not disclose how they became aware of his action. Sabir, a …

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• 12 September

  Western Powers Have Syria in Their Sights By Jean Shaoul

  

  Having achieved regime change in Libya through military intervention, the Western powers and their regional allies now have Syria firmly in their sights as part of their plans for re-dividing the resource-rich Middle East. They are intent on using the six-month long protests and civil conflict that the Baathist regime of President Bashar al-Assad has brutally suppressed—at least 2,000 people are …

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• 12 September

  U.N. Racism Meet Threatens North-South Confrontation By Thalif Deen

  

  UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7, 2011 (IPS) – A high-level meeting on racism, scheduled to take place later this month under the auspices of the General Assembly, is threatening to split the world body and trigger a North-South confrontation. Expressing unfounded fears the meeting might turn out to be anti- Israel, several Western states, including Canada, Germany, the United States, Italy, …

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• 12 September

  Khalid Yasin Oh Muslims, The West have a plan for you!

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