Quality Time with Dad

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A popular American song by Harry Chapin tells the sad story of a boy who always tries to spend time with his father, but always finds him too busy. When the boy grows up and the father gets older, the father always wants to spend time with his [...]

So What About Iran?

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DO BUSH, Cheney & Co. indeed intend to attack Iran?  don`t know, but my suspicion that they might is getting stronger. Why? Because George Bush is nearing the end of his term of office. If it ends the way things look now, he will be remembered as a [...]

Only Iraqi Kurds support U.S. partition idea

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Shiite and Sunni figures in Iraq dismissed Saturday a U.S. Senate plan to split Iraq along ethnic and religious lines, while the Kurds welcomed it as the “only viable solution” to the present chaos and expressed anger over a secret deal reached with Turkey.
Prime Minister [...]

Kingdom Urges New Approach to Middle East

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JEDDAH, 30 September 2007 — Saudi Arabia yesterday called upon major international powers to change the current approach toward the Arab-Israeli conflict and find a just and lasting solution to the 60-year-old dispute in order to promote world peace and save the region from an [...]

McCain Casts Muslims as Less Fit to Lead

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 — Senator John McCain said in an interview posted on the Internet on Saturday that the Constitution established the United States as a Christian nation and that his faith is probably of better spiritual guidance than that of a Muslim candidate [...]

East Turkestan: What Goes for Tibet, Goes for East Turkestan

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China has a significant minority of Muslims but only those considered loyal to the state are allowed to take part in the pilgrimage to Mecca. Representatives of the Muslim Uighur people came to the Human Rights Council to criticise the restrictions on [...]

“Zerkalo”: Hijab (Headscarf) or Education? It’s Not Question, It’s a Problem

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Two students of State Institute of Teachers of Azerbaijan were removed from lecture hall again for wearing hijab (headscarf).After interference of mass media and human rights activists head of institute made concessions: students-girls of second shift wearing hijab were freely allowed [...]

IDB, ICD sign deal with Japan bank

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Jeddah – Ramadan 18, 1428/ September 30, 2007 – The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), an IDB group institution, for [...]

Syria says Israeli air raid aimed at justifying future attack

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DAMASCUS (AFP) — Syrian Vice President Faruq al-Shara said on Saturday that a recent Israeli air raid on what is thought to be a Syrian military installation was meant to provide justification for future aggression on the country.
“Those who continue to talk about [...]

Vote for President in Lebanon Delayed

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BEIRUT, Sept. 25 — The Lebanese Parliament, which was scheduled to elect a new president today, failed to muster a quorum because of the deadlock among the country’s political factions, and the vote was postponed until Oct. 23.
But faction leaders showed some new willingness to negotiate [...]

Two Azeri pilgrims set out for Haj on foot

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Jeddah – Ramadan 18, 1428/ September 30, 2007 – Two Azeri pilgrims are walking to Makkah on foot to perform Haj, according to an official of the Azerbaijan Consulate General in Jeddah. Uktair Qurbanov, Consul for Haj Affairs, said the pilgrims are expected [...]

Swiss immigration rules blasted as racist

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Switzerland’s immigration process is unfair and, in some cases, racist – that is the view of the country’s racial discrimination watchdog. In a hard-hitting report it criticises the practice of allowing members of a community to vote on an individual’s citizenship application.
Muslims and people from the [...]

Muslims mark anniversary of historic Battle of Badr

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Jeddah – Ramadan 17, 1428/ September 29, 2007 – Today is the anniversary of the historic Battle of Badr. With this battle began a remarkable Era in the history of Islam. The migration (Hijrah) of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to Madinah had [...]

Cambodian Muslims in dire need of copies of Quran

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Kuala Lumpur – Ramadan 17, 1428/ September 29, 2007 – Cambodian Muslims are in dire need of copies of the Holy Quran as they are hard to get in Cambodia and often stolen from mosques, said Cambodia’s Mufti Kamaruddin Yusof. “This made preaching [...]

Karachi to host International Islamic Banking Conference in April

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Islamabad – Ramadan 17, 1428/ September 29, 2007 – The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), will organize the Third International Conference on Islamic Banking and Finance: Risk Management, Regulations and Supervision in Karachi next April. [...]

Sheikh Al Sabouni named Islamic Personality of the Year

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ubai – Ramadan 17, 1428/ September 29, 2007 – Renowned Islamic scholar from Syria Sheikh Mohammed Ali Al Sabouni has been named Islamic Personality of the Year by the Dubai International Holy Quran Award (DIHQA) Organizing Committee. Addressing a Press conference here yesterday, [...]

Pakistan and UN Islamic Bloc Slams Holocaust Survivors; NGOs Protest

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Geneva, Sept. 28, 2007 —  An international coalition of non-governmental organizations today published a protest against a U.N. speech by Pakistan that accused Holocaust survivors of “campaigning against Muslim symbols in the Western world” and that called hatred of Muslims “a cruel [...]

Halal market bids opportunities for Philippine exporters

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Taking into consideration the myriad gains of going Halal has driven a lot of food companies to obtain certification. More than two billion Muslims in over 100 countries, as well as non-Muslims, too, are a huge untapped market for Halal food products.”Production and manufacturing firms [...]