February, 2010

• 15 February

  Retrofiqh: The Future Is The Past, By Mohammed Robbani

  © Islamic Finance Today The recent outing of two of the backbones of the recent Islamic Finance phenomena in the Mid East (organised Tawarruq and some types of Sukuk) as possibly Haraam has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons. Now, all of sudden – well meaning Islamic bankers and their customers are finding themselves stuck in the middle. Are they …

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• 14 February

  The roar behind Sino-US row, By Ameen Izzadeen

  In 1987, US President Ronald Reagan pointing at the Berlin Wall during a visit to West Germany, bluntly said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Two years after this famous Reagan remark, the wall that divided Germany for 28 years collapsed, leading to the reunification of Germany. In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev helplessly watched the Soviet Union disintegrate into 15 independent …

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• 13 February

  US-Islamic World Forum begins today

  DOHA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will join Qatar’s Prime Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani to address the seventh edition of US-Islamic World Forum opening here today. The three-day event, being jointly hosted by the US think- tank Brookings Institution and Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, …

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• 13 February

  Michael Wolfe

  “I did not want to ‘trade in’ my culture. I wanted access to new meanings.” – How an American writer born of a Jewish father and a Christian mother found spiritual fulfillment in Islam. After twenty-five years a writer in America, I wanted something to soften my cynicism. I was searching for new terms by which to see. The way …

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• 11 February

  What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence, by: Randall Amster

    It might be a bad dream, but it feels real enough. The mantle of warfare slips seamlessly from one president to another, from one party to another, from one decade to another, from one generation to another. The impetus of national aggression transcends race, creed, socio-economic status, age and geography. Our collective sin is the bald lie that we …

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• 10 February

  Torture in the name of Food- The case against Foie Gras, By Muhammad Ibn Wazir

  

  The West is well known for its hypocrisy which is seen in many spheres of activity, not the least in their attitude towards animal rights. It is often quick to condemn the Islamic method of slaughtering animals for food as ‘barbaric’, notwithstanding the fact that the Islamic method of slaughter known as dhabh is quick and painless, besides purifying the …

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• 10 February

  Some interesting fact of Makkah.

  Scientific facts that proves ‘The holy Kaaba’ is the center of the world. Post Disclaimer | Support UsSupport Us The sailanmuslim.com web site  entirely supported by individual donors and well wishers. If you regularly visit this site and wish to show your appreciation, or if you wish to see further development of sailanmuslim.com, please donate us Donate IMPORTANT : All …

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