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  • Iraq: Seven years of occupation

    By Raed Jarrar On April 9, 2003, exactly seven years ago, Baghdad fell under the US-led occupation. Baghdad did not fall in 21 days, though; it fell after 13 years of wars, bombings and economic sanctions. Millions of Iraqis, including myself, watched our country die slowly before our eyes in those 13 years. So, when the invasion started in March.. More

  • Israel's Al-Naqab 'frontier'

    Tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched yesterday in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present systematic discrimination. But with the focus on Israel's policies of land confiscation, there was significance in a second protest that day. In the Negev (referred to as al-Naqab by Palestinian.. More

  • Iraq outrage over US video killings

    Angry families of civilians killed in a US helicopter attack in Baghdad three years ago, documented in a video leaked on the internet, are seeking justice for their deaths. Earlier this week Wikileaks, a whistleblower website that publishes anonymously sourced documents, broadcast a video showing the US military firing at a group of civilians. The.. More

  • How Americans are propagandized about Afghanistan

    On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded. The Pentagon then issued a statement claiming that.. More

  • Quranic Illumination on the Phenomenon of Sexual Deviance

    The rally that was held in Washington in defense of sexual deviance raised an argument among people with regards to the nature of this phenomenon and its significance. I have therefore thought it proper to present the Quranic answers to the Muslim reader to some of the questions, uncertainties, and claims which the demonstrators raised regarding this.. More

  • CIA given details of British Muslim students

    Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare. The disclosure has outraged Muslim groups and students who are not involved in ‘extremism’ but have been targeted by police and now fear that their names.. More

  • Two-thirds of boys in Afghan jails are brutalized

    Nearly two of every three male juveniles arrested in Afghanistan are physically abused, according to a study based on interviews with 40 percent of all those now incarcerated in the country’s juvenile justice system. The study, carried out by U.S. defense attorney Kimberly Motley for the international children’s rights organization Terre.. More

  • China challenged over executions

    Human rights group Amnesty International has called on China to publicly state how many people it puts to death each year. In its annual report on the use of the used of the death penalty worldwide, published on Tuesday, Amnesty said the number of people executed by Beijing last year was likely "in the thousands" - estimated to be more than.. More

  • Benefiting from our time

    Allah the Almighty and His Messenger, Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam, very clearly tell us the value of time, why we must not waste it and how we can make use of our time wisely to increase our faith and thus attain success, especially eternal success in the Hereafter. Both the Quran and the Sunnah enjoin Muslims to be conscious of.. More

  • Restoring and maintaining intimacy in marriage

    Couples can return to the state of intimacy from conflict, if, and only if, they stop hurting each other and return to meeting each other’s emotional needs again. What is intimacy? Intimacy is closeness to each other. In an intimate state, spouses communicate smoothly, rush to do whatever it takes to make each other happy, and avoid what might.. More

  • How the West poisoned Bangladesh

    Up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of suffering early deaths because of arsenic poisoning - the legacy of a ill-planned water project that created a devastating public health catastrophe. In the 1970s, up to 250,000 children a year died in the country from drinking dirty water; today water can still be fatal. Four decades after an internationa.. More

  • British military intelligence 'ran renegade torture unit in Iraq'

    Fresh evidence has emerged that British military intelligence ran a secret operation in Iraq which authorized degrading and unlawful treatment of prisoners. Documents reveal that prisoners were kept hooded for long periods in intense heat and deprived of sleep by defense intelligence officers. They also reveal that officers running the operation claimed.. More

  • Treating diarrhea

    It is narrated in the books of Imaams Al-Bukhari and Muslim, may Allah have mercy upon them, that Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "A man came to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and said: 'My brother is complaining about his stomach, or he is complaining about diarrhea.’ The Prophet, sallallaahu alayhi.. More

  • Children of Gaza: Scarred and Trapped

    Omsyatte adjusts her green school uniform and climbs gingerly on to a desk at the front of the classroom. The shy 12-year-old holds up a brightly colored picture and begins to explain to her classmates what she has drawn. It is a scene played out in schools all over the world, but for one striking difference: Omsyatte's picture does not illustrate a.. More

  • Common painkillers can lead to hearing loss

    Loud music or noise isn't the only thing that can damage your hearing. A new study in men hints that popping over-the-counter painkillers regularly can also lead to hearing loss, especially in younger men. In the study, researchers found that men younger than age 50 who regularly took acetaminophen more than two times a week had roughly double the.. More