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August, 2010

  • 19 August

    Bin Laden’s Rising Influence In America , By M. Junaid Levesque-Alam

      American leaders are always trying to assess Osama bin Laden’s level of influence over Muslims.   They should look at his influence over their own countrymen.   The aversion to a proposed Muslim center near Ground Zero shows that it is Americans, not Muslims, whose thinking the terrorist leader has most successfully recast to his advantage.   The detractors strengthen …

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  • 19 August

    Three children injured in N. Ireland bomb blast, IF THIS IS NOT TERRORISM? WHAT IS IT THEN.?

    IF THIS IS NOT TERRORISM? WHAT IS IT THEN.? Men of the Protestant fraternal organisation Orange Order are seen through a security barrier under police presence during the Apprentice Boys march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland on August 14,2010. Up to 15 000 people and 140 bands are expected to attend. The Apprentice Boys of Derry is a Protestant fraternal society …

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  • 19 August

    QUALITIES OF ALLAH’S SERVANTS

    [25:63 ] And the servants of (Allah) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, "Peace!"; [25:64 ] Those who spend the night in adoration of their Lord prostrate and standing; [25:65 ] Those who say, "Our Lord! avert from us the Wrath of Hell, for its Wrath is …

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  • 17 August

    The Post-war Quagmire, By Dr. Ameer Ali

    The Sino-Indian Geo-political Trap Sri Lanka’s political foolhardiness in its inability to solve peacefully its domestic ethnic minority issue over the last fifty or so years, as an independent sovereign nation state has, as a consequence of a bitterly fought civil war, pulled her into the vortex of a new geo-political game played amongst India, the United States and China …

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  • 13 August

    Pain of 1990 Muslim ‘massacre’ lingers in Sri Lanka, By Sivaramakrishnan Parameswaran

      An apology has been issued by Tamil leaders in Sri Lanka to the country's Muslim minority for "massacres" allegedly carried out by the Tamil Tiger rebel group during the civil war 20 years ago. The rebels have been blamed for shooting dead more than 300 Muslims inside two mosques in the eastern town of Batticaloa in August 1990, and …

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  • 10 August

    Expansion of Sharia banking in Bangladesh , by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury

    Islamic politics will soon be banned in Bangladesh – third largest Muslim nation with 150 million populations. According to government sources, government is on the process of restoring secularist democracy in the country by scrapping several provisions in the Constitution of the country, which were incorporated mostly by former military regimes. As possible pre-action of this plan, government recently banned …

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  • 10 August

    AM I BEING WATCHED?

    Cruising down the national freeway, exceeding the speed limit, one almost instantaneously steps on his brakes and decelerates. Why? He catches sight of an Traffic Police official and is well aware that HE IS BEING WATCHED! A person in a supermarket, whose intention is to steal, stops dead in his tracks. Why? He catches sight of the Close Circuit television …

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