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Pakistan’s Flood and Rich and Poor »

By IMTIAZ GUL I wrote this article after visiting the flood-hit areas. Garhi Khuda Bux (Sind, Pakistan) - Once again, the tide of goodwill in the aftermath of the super-flood favours Pakistan. By himself flying...

August 25 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved — Not Pakistan’s Flood Victims

Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved — Not Pakistan’s Flood Victims »

“if the water was not diverted, the Shahbaz Airbase would have been inundated.” He was assigned to protect it, former Prime Minister Mir Zafar Ullah Khan Jamali saying that doing it meant demolishing the Jamali...

August 25 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Pakistan: Bombs Not Bread

Pakistan: Bombs Not Bread »

By FELICITY ARBUTHNOT … to wade through slaughter … and shut the gates of mercy on mankind. – Thomas Gray (1716-1771) THE scale of the disaster caused by the floods in Pakistan, is barely comprehensible. As Juan Cole...

August 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Pakistan under Water

Pakistan under Water »

UNITED Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said from Pakistan that the flood disaster is the worst he’s ever seen, characterizing the destruction as more dire than that caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the...

August 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Ramadan: The Discipline, Generosity, Unity, Self- Restraint, Kindness, and Patience

Ramadan: The Discipline, Generosity, Unity, Self- Restraint, Kindness, and Patience »

ISLAM is a way of life. The prayer taught by Allah to His last Messenger ran thus: "Say, O Muhammad, verily my Lord has guided me to a path that is straight, a...

August 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
UN Says 6 Million Pakistan’s Flood Victims Need Aid to Survive

UN Says 6 Million Pakistan’s Flood Victims Need Aid to Survive »

GENEVA - The UN said on Tuesday that aid for Pakistan's flood victims would focus on the survival needs of six million people, as it prepared to ramp up the relief effort with an...

August 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Human Rights Advocates Slam Judge’s Decision to Admit Confessions

Human Rights Advocates Slam Judge’s Decision to Admit Confessions »

JURY selection for the trial of Canadian Omar Khadr begins Tuesday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Toronto-born man, now 23, was captured as a teenager after a fatal firefight with U.S. special forces in Afghanistan in...

August 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Community

Collecting Food and Medicines for Pakistan »

Collecting Food and Medicines for Pakistan

ICNA Relief, in collaboration with PIA, will be collecting Food Items, Medicines, New Clothes etc outside of Alfalah Islamic Center starting from Tuesday, August 24, 2010. ICNA Relief...

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Canadian Imams Issue Wide Ranging Declaration to Clarify Many Misunderstandings »

Canadian Imams Issue Wide Ranging Declaration to Clarify Many Misunderstandings

TORONTO: In a time of heightened tension and hot debate concerning specifically the ground zero mosque in New York and generally the religion of Islam...

Aug 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Ramadhan Mubarak: Ramadhan Begins in GTA on Two Different Days »

Ramadhan Mubarak: Ramadhan Begins in GTA on Two Different Days

HILAL Committee of Metropolitan Toronto & Vicinity has announced that Ramadan 2010 / 1431 would begin on Thursday 12th August, 2010. "There were no...

Aug 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Resonant Note Even Without Dr. Naik »

Resonant Note Even Without Dr. Naik

By FOUZIA MOHAMED FROM the onset the 3rd Annual Journey of Faith conference was plagued with controversy surrounding the keynote speaker,...

Aug 10 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Opinion

Floods in Pakistan: The Treachery of Muslim Rulers »

Floods in Pakistan: The Treachery of Muslim Rulers

By ABU YAHYA, Canada CLOSE to 2,000, people have died in Pakistan’s biggest natural disaster since 1929. Millions have lost their homes and run the risk of being infected by deadly water-borne diseases such as cholera. The government’s slow response has been criminally inadequate whereas the...

Aug 25 2010 / No comment / Read More »

“Ka’anahu Waliyun Hameem” – As If He is Your Bosom Friend [Ref: Verse # 41: 34] »

“Ka’anahu Waliyun Hameem” – As If He is Your Bosom Friend [Ref: Verse # 41: 34]

By SHAMIM SIDDIQI [To turn an individual into your bosom friendship or a society, a people becoming friendly and loving to you [O Muslims!] in all respects is something quite unique to attain in the community of nations. This is what this Verse connotes and commands Muslims...

Aug 25 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Time to Build this Mosque »

Time to Build this Mosque

By Yousef Drummond There is the old adage that “a few rotten apples spoil the whole bunch”.   I think this adage explicitly relates to the political hysteria enveloping the cable-news networks as well as local and national newspapers here in the United States that is now...

Aug 22 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Pakistan Needs a Khomeini Type of Ruler »

Pakistan Needs a Khomeini Type of Ruler

ASIF HAROON RAJA GEN MUSHARRAF enjoyed nine-year rule but Pakistan suffered. He was given a royal send off and is still enjoying life abroad but Pakistan continues to bleed because of his unpardonable sins. Had he put some steel in his back and warded...

Aug 18 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Issues

Why I Shed Bikini for Niqab: The New Symbol of Women’s Liberation »

Why I Shed Bikini for Niqab: The New Symbol of Women’s LiberationBy SARA BOKKER I AM an American woman who was born in the midst of America's "Heartland." I grew up, just like any other girl, being...

Jun 26 2010 / No comment / Read More »

“Islamophobia”: Muslim States Seek U.N. Action on West’s »

“Islamophobia”: Muslim States Seek U.N. Action on West’sMUSLIM states said on Wednesday that what they call "islamophobia" is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher...

Jun 18 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Quebec’s Bill 94 Niqab Legislation Sends A Troubling Signal »

Quebec’s Bill 94 Niqab Legislation Sends A Troubling SignalBy DR. AHMED SHOKER CIC Friday Magazine QUEBEC Premier Jean Charest's government recently announced its commitment to secularism and gender equality and proposed legislation (Bill 94) that...

Apr 16 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

French Council Against Total Ban on Burqa »

French Council Against Total Ban on BurqaPARIS -France's highest administrative body warned Tuesday that a total prohibition on full-body Islamic veils in public risks being found unconstitutional in a setback to...

Mar 30 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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Masjid & Mimber Masjid Qurtuba: A Project of NAMF, a Multi-Faceted Organisation

Masjid Qurtuba: A Project of NAMF, a Multi-Faceted Organisation

NIAZ Khan, a Youth Imam was delivering lecture on knowledge and five stages of life. Life before birth, life in mother’s womb, life of this world, life of barzakh (in between death and...

Apr 12, 2010 / More » Al Ansar Islamic Center-Building the Culture of Ummah

Al Ansar Islamic Center-Building the Culture of Ummah

“WE lost the concept of Ummah, and after that we lost everything. Now, we have to revive the model of one Ummah. Welcoming and respecting every Muslim irrespective of ethnicity, color, language is...

Mar 12, 2010 / More »
Entrepreneur Naseer Malik: Dr. of Your Pets

Naseer Malik: Dr. of Your Pets

By JAWED ANWAR HWY 401/Warden Pet Hospital attracts clients, not only from its own neighborhood, but also pet owners from far areas like Oshwa, Oakville, and Hamilton.  However, the majority of the...

Apr 12, 2010 / More » Dr. Yaqub Chaudhry: A Doctor of Many Discipline Focuses on Prophetic Medicine

Dr. Yaqub Chaudhry: A Doctor of Many Discipline Focuses on Prophetic Medicine

By UNVER SAAD “Only those people can live healthy who can allot at least one hour in a day to improve one’s health.”-Dr. Chaudhry DR. Yaqub Chaudhry, native of Jhelum, Pakistan has a unique combination...

Mar 18, 2010 / More »
Ummah Top Leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Arrested

Top Leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Arrested

DACCA (Bangladesh): Maulana Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ameer (Chief) of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, was arrested by police on Tuesday from National Press Club area as he went there to attend a seminar arranged by National...

Jul 1, 2010 / More » Zakir Naik Banned From Entering UK

Zakir Naik Banned From Entering UK

LONDON: Britain on Friday banned from entering the country Zakir Naik, an Indian Muslim and a world renowned preacher of Islam. Conservative Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May said she had barred Zakir Naik, a...

Jun 20, 2010 / More »
Toronto-GTA Civil Liberties in Toronto’s Streets

Civil Liberties in Toronto’s Streets

THE protests in Toronto during the G20 summit weekend led to the arrests of about 900 people, a Canadian record. The Toronto Police Service and the federal Integrated Security Unit defend the police actions,...

Jul 1, 2010 / More » G20 Protest Violence: 150 Arrests, Tear gases, Windows Broken, Cars Burnt

G20 Protest Violence: 150 Arrests, Tear gases, Windows Broken, Cars Burnt

AT least 150 people were arrested as violence broke out after thousands of anti-G20 protesters marched through downtown Toronto on Saturday, prompting police to use tear gas in the city for the...

Jun 27, 2010 / More »
Canada Afghan Canadian Mother to Have Psychiatric Evaluation in Alleged Honour Crime

Afghan Canadian Mother to Have Psychiatric Evaluation in Alleged Honour Crime

A WOMAN alleged to have stabbed her daughter in the head in a so-called “honour” crime in Montreal – apparently because the 19-year-old arrived home late – will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to...

Jun 15, 2010 / More » H1N1 Shot Caused Woman’s Painful Disorder

H1N1 Shot Caused Woman’s Painful Disorder

A CALGARY woman Norma Goldring regrets getting the H1N1 shot. Her doctor told her it likely caused a rare and painful disorder. Ms Goldring said she felt compelled to get an H1N1 vaccine because...

Feb 26, 2010 / More »
USA Supreme Court of America Bars Americans to Support Foreign Terrorists Groups, The Law Upholds

Supreme Court of America Bars Americans to Support Foreign Terrorists Groups, The Law Upholds

WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court upheld a law that bars Americans from providing support to foreign terrorist groups (declared by the US government on whatever reasons), rejecting arguments that it violated constitutional rights of...

Jun 21, 2010 / More » Helen Thomas Quits over Israel Comments

Helen Thomas Quits over Israel Comments

Helen Thomas had reported on every US president since John F Kennedy VETERAN US White House reporter Helen Thomas has retired after making "controversial remarks" about Israel. In an interview...

Jun 7, 2010 / More »

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