By Yousef Drummond We often hear from parents and educational authorities that reading is fundamental. Those of us who respond to their advice seriously understand one thing: that there are both obvious and implicit consequences arising from the art of reading, moving from the fundamentals to a complete mastery over a book based on one’s [...]
By WARIS MALIK IT is with great humility and humbleness I would like to inform you that recently I have been appointed as a Chair of Special Olympic Toronto - Community Council. Special Olympics motto will definitely inspire you to act by wanting to know more about this noble cause, "Let me Win, But if [...]
By EL-HAJJ MAURI’ SAALAKHAN “Three classes of men [and women] are cut off from the blessings of Paradise: oppressors; those who aid and abet oppression; and those who tolerate oppression.”- Imam Ali ibn abu-Talib (r) THIS letter pertains to an extremely important mobilization in defense of one of our sisters, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. In over two decades of human [...]
By GARETH PORTER THE announcement by U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of Defence, Michele Flournoy, in Congressional testimony March 15 that the United States would continue to carry out “counter-terrorism operations” from “joint bases” in Afghanistan well beyond 2014 signaled that President Barack Obama has given up the negotiating flexibility he would need to be able to [...]
A personal note on the April 9 antiwar demonstration scheduled for NYC - and the embarrassing disconnect that often exists among Muslim leaders in America By EL-HAJJ MAURI' SAALAKHAN THE "100 Imams for April 9th" press conference scheduled for later this week in NYC, brings back some rather bitter memories regarding Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. For the three [...]
By ASIF HAROON RAJA THE US past and present gives credence to the fact that there is no other country matching its destructive game play. The US used incendiary bombs against German cities in 1942 and adopted it as a strategy. Both the US and British air forces carried out massive night bombing of Dresden [...]
By YVES ENGLER WOULD Stephen Harper attack Libya simply to justify spending tens of billions of dollars on F-35 fighter jets? Perhaps. But, add on doing it for major Canadian investors, reinforcing his “principled” foreign policy rhetoric and reasserting Western control over a region in flux and you pretty much have the range of reasons [...]
By DR. ABDUL RUFF THE seemingly endless freedom struggle in India occupied Jammu Kashmir has only reduced Muslim population of the Kashmir valley, but has not effected the Indian terror regime even a bit in any manner. On the contrary, India, by using its terror-cum-genocides experiences, has somehow managed even to enter the notorious UNSC [...]
By PAUL WOLF THE recent attack on Libya by the US, UK and France surprised nearly everyone with the speed with which it was authorized and executed. Although hard data on what’s actually going on is scarce, what is clear is that after non-violent protests in Tripoli were met with the murder of a large [...]
