November, 2009

• 24 November

  Today’s Ancient Warfare: Facts vs. Beliefs, By Jeff Gates

  In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon. Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories? Iraqi meetings in Prague with Al Qaeda? Iraqi purchases of yellowcake uranium from Niger? All these claims were reported as …

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• 23 November

  Refute: “Saint worship in Islam” Intercession in Islam leads to polytheism

  “And surely, We created you (your father Adam) and then gave you shape (the noble shape of a human being), then We told the angels, “Prostrate to Adam”, and they prostrated, except Iblis, he refused to be those who prostrate. Allah said: “What prevented you (O Iblis) that you did not postrate when I commanded you?” Iblis said: “I am …

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• 23 November

  Overcoming religious prejudices through education: the experience of Bethlehem University, By Fr. Jamal Khader

  BETHLEHEM – A Christian professor teaches about Jesus Christ, the Church, and the Holy Trinity at a Catholic university. It may seem normal to do so, except that 75 percent of the students are Muslim. This is a required course at Bethlehem University, and the course titled “religious cultural studies” is co-taught by a Christian professor and a Muslim one. …

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• 22 November

  OBAMA RUNS INTO POLITICAL GREAT WALL IN CHINA

  US President Barack Obama was in China this week. He came, he saw, but his charm failed to conquer the Chinese leaders, as it did with the Arabs during his West Asia visit in June. Obama held lengthy talks with Chinese leaders to get their support for US policies and to urge them to be considerate towards US economic concerns, …

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• 20 November

  Free The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise,By John Pilger

  November 16, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — When General Suharto, the west’s man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered “a gleam of light in Asia”, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million “communists” was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called “the richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest …

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• 20 November

  Central Banks and Shari’ah Supervision, By Rayan Mohammed

  © Islamic Finance Today Rayan Mohammed graduated with a BA in Economics and Law from the University of Leicester before completing an LLM in International Business Law at University College London.  His thesis focused on the challenges facing Islamic banking and discussed legislative obstacles and regulatory issues such as the Shari’ah Supervisory Board and Capital adequacy requirements. The Islamic financial …

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• 19 November

  U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report, By Thalif Deen

  UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (IPS) – A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was favourably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming support Thursday in the 192-member General Assembly. The …

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