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  • Inside Dar'aa

    The only outside visitors the people of Daraa are allowed to receive these days are friends and family attending funerals. To access the city where Syria's uprising began, a local reporter simply had to tell the guards at the first checkpoint the truth: The husband of his wife's cousin had been killed while protesting for freedom and he was there to.. More

  • Developing the Child's Sentiments - II

    - Chastity and Sincerity Allah The Almighty mentioned in His Book that one of the characteristics of the faithful believers is their refraining from committing what is unlawful. He Says (what means): {And they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed.} [Quran 23:5-6].. More

  • Developing the Child's Sentiments - I

    1) Teach values to your children: The Islamic Sharee‘ah (Islamic legislation) came to direct people to the most upright way, and guide them to the straight path, which conveys them to the happiness of both the World and the Hereafter. The good manners mentioned and referred to by the Quran are beyond calculation. Allah The Almighty described.. More

  • Under Gaddafi's eyes

    Benghazi internal security headquarters, November 3, 1990. A fax arrives at 10:30 in the morning, addressed to the director from the head office in Tripoli. "We received information about some of the suspicious people," it begins. A list of names and paragraphs of information follow. One man is singled out for listening to religious tape.. More

  • 'CIA has no plans to suspend drone strikes in Pakistan'

    According to a report in the Washington Post, US defense officials have claimed that there is no plan to suspend or restrict the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan, and that the agency has not been asked to pull any of its employees out of Pakistan. US and Pakistan’s relationship was the focus of a nearly four-hour meeting Monday at the.. More

  • Alcohol drink blamed for oral cancer rise

    Alcohol is largely to blame for an "alarming" rise in the rate of oral cancers among men and women in their forties, say experts. Numbers of cancers of the lip, mouth, tongue and throat in this age group have risen by 26% in the past decade. Alcohol consumption has doubled since the 1950s and is the most likely culprit alongside smoking,.. More

  • French face veil ban comes into force

    A controversial ban on face veils has come into force in France, meaning anyone wearing the Muslim Niqab or Burqa in public will face a fine of up to $216 and a citizenship course. A number of Muslims are urging women to defy the ban, including a property dealer who is offering to sell a building worth millions in order to fund his campaign. Rachid.. More

  • Israel arrests 100 Palestinian women in latest round-up

    Israeli troops arrested 100 Palestinian women in an overnight raid Thursday, the latest in a series of round-ups around the West Bank city of Nablus. Israeli troops stormed a village near Nablus early Thursday, arresting more than 100 women, local officials said. Hundreds of troops entered Awarta shortly after midnight and imposed a curfew after which.. More

  • Exercise preserves, builds heart muscle

    Consistent lifelong exercise preserves heart muscle in the elderly to levels that match or even exceed that of healthy young sedentary people, a surprising finding that underscores the value of regular exercise training, according to a new study. The first study to evaluate the effects of varying levels of lifelong exercise on heart mass was presented.. More

  • Libyan Karzai? Chalabi? Forget it

    NATO's political mission "should swiftly identify and nurture a national opposition and plot the path for a post-conflict transition to democracy, probably under UN auspices", or so advises the Financial Times in its lead editorial, "Plotting the Way Forward". Both the title and the advice are borrowed from a past era: the post-Afghanista.. More

  • US Muslims 'face growing discrimination'

    Muslim citizens of the United States face growing discrimination in daily life, manifesting itself in violence, vandalism and arson, a US congressional panel has been told. Speakers on Tuesday said that evidence of anti-Muslim bigotry included inflammatory remarks made by elected public officials. "We continue to solicit and receive the support.. More

  • The Mind-Set of a Muslim Child

    The Missing Dimension in Educational Methods: The Sentimental Education The sentimental education pertains to the person's feelings, which form all sides of the integrated human personality. Sentiment is a word given to any sense of pleasure or pain, as well as to certain psychological states within the sphere of pleasure and pain, vis-à-vis.. More

  • Libyan woman tells of abuse

    A distraught Libyan woman has told journalists in Tripoli how she was raped by government troops, before being bundled away by officials. Iman al-Obeidi sought out foreign reporters in the capital's Rixos hotel on Saturday morning, weeping and claiming that troops had detained her at a checkpoint, tied her up, abused her and then led her away to be.. More

  • An approach to the translations of the meaning of the Quran into English

    The miracle of the Quran lies in its inimitable language, its beauty and eloquence of style. It was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, (may Allah exalt his mention) in the 7th century CE for all nations, people and races. Therefore, there has always been the need for translating its meanings into other languages... More

  • US Army “kill team” in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians

    German Magazine Der Spiegel has released hideous photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenseless Afghan civilians they killed. Senior officials at Nato's International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly Der Spiegel to the images of US soldiers abusing prisoners in.. More