August, 2010

• 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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• 10 August

  Ahmadinejad: 9/11 Scenario Dubious, By Press TV

  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Western media hyped the September 11, 2001 attacks to pave the way for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. "What was the story behind September 11? In the space of five to six days, and with the aid of the media, they swayed public opinion to the point of considering an attack on Afghanistan …

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• 9 August

  Trying to understand America, By Asiff Hussein

  

  An inquiring Journalist shares his thoughts after a nearly three-week sojourn in the United States, telling us what America is and what it is not, and that looking at it in black or white is certainly not the answer to our problems. Asiff Hussein, though a layman, was fortunate to be part of a group of Sri Lankan religious scholars …

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