February, 2010

• 20 February

  From ire to pyre if US attacks Iran or imposes sanctions , By Ameen Izzadeen

  The United States appears to be in a hurry to bring about a regime change in Iran but its biggest problem is that it does not know how to go about it. In recent weeks, the US has increased its Iran-bashing tempo and intensified diplomatic efforts aimed at forcing Tehran to give up its uranium enrichment programme. US Secretary of …

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• 19 February

  Hastening Armageddon, By Asiff Hussein

  Why the Unholy Alliance between American Christian Fundamentalists and Jewish Zionists poses a threat to World Peace and what the Muslim World can do about it Little do we realize that events unfolding in the West today are bound to have serious implications for the Muslim world and indeed the world at large. One of these is of course the …

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• 18 February

  America’s Global Weapons Monopoly Don’t Call It “the Global Arms Trade”, By Frida Berrigan

  

  On the relatively rare occasions when the media turns its attention to U.S. weapons sales abroad and shines its not-so-bright spotlight on the latest set of facts and figures, it invariably speaks of “the global arms trade.” Let’s consider that label for a moment, word by word: *It is global, since there are few places on the planet that lie …

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• 17 February

  Sarkozy’s move to ban niqab in France! Expression of emerging Islamophobia in the West, By Latheef Farook

  Islamophobia, unleashed with all its ferocity and viciousness under the pretext of fighting a so called war on terrorism by Israel and obediently implemented in the aftermath of the 9/11 by warmongers in Washington, London and Paris is pushing the west especially Europe back into Dark Ages. Barely two months after peaceful Switzerland voted in a shameful referendum on 31 …

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• 16 February

  Egypt’s Copts fearful amid increasing tensions, By JEFFREY FLEISHMAN

  CAIRO, Egypt — Father Metyas Mankarios ministers to garbage men and runs a newspaper for Coptic Christians from an office crammed with brittle archives above vegetable sellers and fishmongers barking out prices along the muddy roads of a Cairo neighborhood. Few have it easy here. From dawn until deep into the night, there is the clatter of making a living, …

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• 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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