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April, 2010
- 5 April
US Admiral on Lashker e Taiba presence in Sri Lanka, By Latheef Farook
A news items published in the Daily Mirror of 27 March 2010 and the Sunday Times following day, 28/3/2010, the United States Admiral Robert Willard, Commander of the US Pacific Command, had stated that he had information about militant group Lashker e Taiba presence in Sri Lanka. This is frightening as this is how the US spread lies to attacks …
Read More » - 5 April
Coffee — The Wine of Islam
Most modern coffee-drinkers are probably unaware of coffee’s heritage in the Sufi orders of Southern Arabia. Members of the Shadhiliyya order are said to have spread coffee-drinking throughout the Islamic world sometime between the 13th and 15th centuries CE. A Shadhiliyya shaikh was introduced to coffee-drinking in Ethiopia, where the native highland bush, its fruit and the beverage made from …
Read More » - 5 April
Chechnya: Who checkmates whom?, By Ameen Izzadeen
Monday’s terror attacks in Moscow and Wednesday’s police station blast in Dagestan show that Russia’s problems in the North Caucasus are far from over. It may lead to the third Chechen war. For it was a similar bombing campaign in 1999 that prompted the then Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, to send troops again to Chechnya and launch the second …
Read More » - 1 April
Islam and Pluralism in a Global Era, By: Dr. Fathi Osman
That human beings are all different cannot be argued. Physically and psychologically no two human beings, however closely related biologically, are exactly the same. In addition to racial and ethnic differences, there are the acquired differences in ideas, knowledge approaches, priorities and judgment, among many other differences, that accrue from the surrounding culture. Religion belongs somewhere between an inherited and …
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March, 2010
- 31 March
History Of Urdu Language
The word ‘ Urdu ‘ is derived from Turkish word ‘ Ordu ‘ meaning ‘ Army Camp ‘ or ‘Lashkar ‘ . Exact origin of ‘ Urdu ‘ is some what difficult to trace; but many different theories have been developed to explain it. Mohammad Hussain Azad, an eminent Indian scholar, believes that Brij Bhasha, a dialect of Western Hindi, …
Read More » - 31 March
HEALTH VS. WEALTH: OBAMA’S BILL TURNS BITTER PILL, By AMEEN IZZADEEN
President Barack Obama was both a happy man and an angry man this week. He was happy because he managed to get his ambitious healthcare reforms bill passed by the House of Representative by a narrow margin. He was angry because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly defied the US request to stop new settlement building activities in the occupied …
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