By RAMZY BAROUD MUSTAFA Tamimi was a 28-year-old resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. His meticulously trimmed beard served as the centerpiece of his handsome face. In December 2009, when an Israeli soldier shot him from a short distance with a tear gas canister, half of Mustafa’s face went missing. More soldiers [...]
THE Majlis Ash-Shura of Metropolitan (Islamic Leadership Council) New York is boycotting this year’s annual Bagel with Bloomberg event. Imam Al-Hajj Talib 'Abdur-Rashid, the Amir (President) of Majlis ASh-Shura of Metropolitan New York issued following statement; As-Salaamu 'Alaikum wa Rahmatullaahi wa Barakatuhu. Like many of you, I have received an invitation from the Mayor's Office to [...]
MADRASAH ( Islamic seminary) Darul Uloom Deoband issued a statement on Wednesday defending the Hindu religious text Bhagwad Gita. Deoband vice-chancellor Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani condemned the "Russian diktat against the Hindu holy scripture" and urged Hindus and Muslims to unite to drive home the point. Nomani also pitched for a joint approach against anti-Islamic [...]
Notes from El-Hajj Mauri' Saalakhan THE jury in the Dr. Tarek Mehanna case has come back with another blatantly unjust verdict - despite the evidence in his favour, and the excellent representation that he received from his attorneys! I stated earlier that the only way Tarek would be found guilty was that the jury must have entered [...]
By BILL QUIGLEY AND SUNITA PATEL NATIONS and organizations around the globe observed yesterday as International Migrants Day. Twenty-two years ago, on December 18, 1990 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, affirming the fundamental principle [...]
By GARETH PORTER IPS — Defence Secretary Leon Panetta’s suggestion that the end of the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is part of a U.S. military success story ignores the fact that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military had planned to maintain a semi-permanent military presence in Iraq. The real story behind [...]
ASIF HAROON RAJA WHILE the US military and NATO have off and on committed unfriendly and hostile acts against its ally Pakistan since 2006, attack on Salala on 26 November by NATO helicopters killing 24 soldiers and injuring 16 was by far the worst. It was a premeditated and well-calculated massacre meant to give a [...]
EL-HAJJ MAURI' SAALAKHAN THE December 31st mobilization for Dr. Aafia Sidiqui in Fort Worth, Texas, is moving right along. We are now 17 days away and excitement and support is building. With ALLAH's blessings, at the end of the day this will be a benefit for Aafia, for other female prisoners being abused in that facility, and a barakah (divine blessing) for [...]
By RAMZY BAROUD ESSAM Al-Batsh and his nephew, Sobhi Al-Batsh, are the latest in a long line of reported Palestinian ‘militants’ killed by Israel. They were both targeted while driving in a car in downtown Gaza on December 8. According to an Israeli army statement, “(They) were affiliated with a terrorist squad that intended to [...]
ASIF HAROON RAJA BENAZIR Bhutto (BB) was the first women prime minister in the Muslim world. She remained in power twice and earned worldwide fame. Helped by her husband Asif Ali Zardari, the couple amassed substantive wealth during the two stints in power. During Nawaz Sharif’s second tenure (1997-99), the Ehtesab Bureau had prepared dozens [...]
