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October 13, 2009 “ICH” — -The electoral victory of center left regimes in at least three Latin American countries, and the search for a new ideological identity to justify their rule, led ideologues and the incumbent presidents to embrace the notion that they represent a new 21st century version of socialism (21cs). Prominent writers, academics and regime spokespeople celebrated a …
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October, 2009
- 15 October
How Noble is the Nobel Peace Prize?
President Barack Obama who promised peace but prosecuting wars ??was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize almost nine months into the office and hardly any achievement to speak of. The Oslo based Nobel Committee chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland said that ?only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world?s attention and given its people hope for …
Read More » - 15 October
Embarrassed and denounced AND Abbas Must Go
In monumental fashion, recent events in Geneva have roundly earned Fatah and Abbas’s Palestinian Authority the contempt of ordinary Palestinians, reports Khaled Amayreh from Ramallah —————————————— The Palestinian Authority (PA) is facing an extremely embarrassing situation following its decision earlier this week to endorse deferring the ratification of the Goldstone Report at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. …
Read More » - 13 October
Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism and the Spread of Sunni Theofascism by Ambassador Curtin Winsor, Jr.
There has been controversy on whether or not this article should be posted in this website. The consensus has been that it should be posted in accordance with the principle that one of the primary purposes of this website is to serve as a forum for dialogue. The article does not of course reflect the views of the Sailan Muslim …
Read More » - 12 October
President: No ‘Ambiguous’ Issue Left
TEHRAN (Dispatches) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that there is no “ambiguous” issue remaining between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “Because of good cooperation between Iran and the agency, important issues were resolved and today there is no ambiguous issue left between Iran and the agency,” the president said in a statement carried by …
Read More » - 11 October
Mizrahi Jews reach out to the Arab world, By Sherri Muzher
When Gamal Abdel Nasser led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, it may surprise people that it was the Egyptian singer, Leila Murad, a Mizrahi Jew, who was chosen as the Revolution’s official singer. Murad was chosen over the much-loved Egyptian singer and darling of the Arab world, Umm Kalthoum. The fact is that Mizrahi Jews — Arab Jews — have …
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Tawassul – Supplicating Allah through and Intermediary.
Definition: Supplicating Allah by means of an intermediary, whether it be a living person, dead person, or a name or attribute of Allah Most High. Yusuf Rifa’i: I here want to convey the position, attested to by compelling legal evidence, of the orthodox majority of Sunni Muslim on the subject of supplicating Allah through an intermidiary (tawassul), and so I …
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