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  • Israeli companies violate West Bank construction freeze

    Israeli building companies are trying to circumvent a construction freeze in West Bank settlements, sometimes by laying the foundations to new apartments after dark or during the weekend, an Israeli human rights organization said Monday. Peace Now, which monitors settlement growth, said that violations of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 10-month.. More

  • US-led invasion ‘bogged down’ in Marjah

    US forces continue to press forward in the Marjah region of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, but are said to be struggling mightily with home-made bombs and sniper fire, and were able to advance only 500 yards yesterday. Despite the pretense that the battle is going “according to plans,” the promises of a quick victory with overwhelming.. More

  • Israel is accused of waging covert war across the Middle

    Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East. They are also suspected of recent killings in Dubai, Damascus and Beirut. While Israel’s Mossad spy agency has been suspected of staging assassinations across the world since the 1970s, it does not officially acknowledge or admit its activities. The current spate of killings.. More

  • Obama, the War President

    US President Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It's called war. The President has not defined any real difference between his hawkish approach to international issues and that of his predecessor, former US President George W. Bush. Where's the change we can believe in? Bush left a legacy of two wars, neither of which was ever explained or.. More

  • 'A prescription for civil war'

    Abu Abdullah has never been charged with a crime, but he has been arrested by Palestinian security forces so many times in the past two years that he has lost count. He has been arrested at work, in the market, on the street, and, more than once, during violent raids by masked men who burst into his home and seized him in front of his family. Deep.. More

  • The value of glorifying the 'Sacred City'

    The importance of values lies in the fact that they are the criterion by which people, ideologies, actions, positions and subjects can be judged and measured; moreover, values decide the identity of the community; the values in a given community have a direct effect and influence on the manners and conduct which the members of that community adopt. Whenever.. More

  • Islamic banking in the digital age

    Islamic banking refers to a system of banking activities that is consistent with the Sharee'ah (Islamic law) and guided by Islamic economics. Thus, banking procedures including payment of Ribaa (usury or interest) is Haraam (Islamically prohibited). Islamic law also prohibits trading in financial risk (which is seen as a form of gambling), investing.. More

  • The Iraqi oil conundrum

    How the mighty have fallen. Just a few years ago, an overconfident Bush administration expected to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, pacify the country, install a compliant client government, privatize the economy, and establish Iraq as the political and military headquarters for a dominating U.S. presence in the Middle East. These successes were,.. More

  • Protecting Haiti's children from 'cowboy adoptions'

    The failed attempt by the New Life Children's Refuge to take 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic has shed light on the activities of groups that disregard the rules of international 'adoption'. Even before the earthquake, Haiti was known as a nation of orphans. Now there are countless more. In the past few weeks, child welfare organizations.. More

  • Proxy detention 'collusion' exposed

    Governments around the world, including those of Arab and European states, have colluded in the secret detention of 'terrorism suspects', UN investigators have reported. An extensive report, released on Wednesday, paints a disturbing picture of a systematic secret detention program involving many countries. Officials found that secret detention "may.. More

  • Nigeria Muslims: 'Our homes were razed'

    Awalu Mohamed was one of the first to arrive in the mining village of Kuru Karama to discover burned human remains and corpses thrown into communal wells and sewage pits. "There are so many, many corpses," says Mohamed, of the Jamatu Nasril Islam aid group. He described how 62 corpses were pulled from the wells on the first day, but aid.. More

  • Attire and adornment – I

    Allah Says what means:“O children of Adam! We have bestowed upon you clothing to conceal your private parts and as adornment. But the clothing of righteousness — that is best. That is from the signs of Allah that perhaps they will remember.”[Quran 7: 26] One of the visible favours of Allah upon His slaves is that He has created.. More

  • Besieged Gazans raise money for Haiti

    Palestinians, living in the Gaza Strip under years of Israel siege, are in efforts to donate what little they have to help those struck by the earthquake in Haiti. The reason for the destruction might be different, but Palestinians say they understand Haiti's pain. Gaza is still considered under Israeli occupation as Israel controls air, sea and.. More

  • Eight medical reasons to prohibit swine flesh

    Why did Islam prohibit eating the flesh of swine? The answer to this question has remained debatable among Muslims and those of other religions who eat the flesh of swine and breed pigs, as they were unconvinced of the reasons for which Islam forbade eating the flesh of swine until they were panic-stricken by the epidemic outbreak of swine flu that.. More

  • Errors committed whilst raising children

    It is very unfortunate and painful that some fathers fail to perform their duties towards their children as Allah has commanded them to do; they do not protect themselves, their wives and their children from the Hellfire. In some cases, they not only fail to raise their children upon honesty, but worse than this, they deliberately raise them as liars.. More