February, 2010

• 2 February

  Afghan ‘geological reserves worth a trillion dollars’

  KABUL (AFP)  Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday. The war-ravaged nation could become one of the richest in the world if helped to tap its geological deposits, Karzai told reporters. “I have very good news for Afghans,” Karzai said. “The initial …

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• 1 February

  When the Sultans charmed Sarandib By Asiff Hussein

  

  Little is it known that there was a time when the Sultans of Turkey ruled the hearts of the Musalmans of the far-famed isle of Sarandib. Sri Lanka is home to a large number of Muslims many of whom comprise the descendants of Arab traders who had settled down here several centuries ago. It would appear that in the early …

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• 1 February

  Indian Govt may allow Islamic banking, eyes $1tn funds

    Times Of India NEW DELHI: Aggressively pitching for $1 trillion worth of Sharia-compliant funds from the Gulf countries for investments in its infrastructure development, the UPA government has drafted a report on Islamic banking even as RBI and the finance ministry are jointly working on necessary legislative changes to implement the same. A committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary …

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January, 2010

• 31 January

  Jews, Muslims can defeat common enemies, By Imam Mohammad Shamsi Ali and Rabbi Marc Schneier

  American Jews and Muslims can defeat a common enemy by working together. That common enemy is prejudice – and if one needed statistical evidence for it, stark proof was revealed this week. A Gallup poll found that 43 percent of Americans admit to at least “a little” prejudice against Muslims, and that such self-reported feelings are strongly linked to the …

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• 29 January

  AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN

  Our real enemies are not those living in a distant land whose names or policies we don’t understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it’s profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it’s profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when …

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• 29 January

  Oppressive Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak, By Latheef Farook

  

    Sold the soul and dignity of Egypt to Zionists Divided and weakened the so called Arab front Betrayed the Palestinians Helped Israel implement its evil designs and consolidate its gains of aggression Egyptian police attacks in Cairo on the group of people who brought urgently needed food and medical supplies to starving Palestinians in Gaza exposed the lowest depth …

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• 28 January

  The Arab Time Capsule: Once You Were the Leaders of Islamic Civilization, by Mahboob A. Khawaja

    "Are there any Muslim leaders open to listening and learning for their own good and capable to articulate a navigational change to serve the interests of the Muslim Ummah?" ?It is highly probable that but for the Arabs modern European civilization would never have arisen at all; it is absolutely certain that but for them, it would not have …

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