World differs on perpetrators of terror attacks

Dawn – World differs on perpetrators of terror attacks
There is no consensus in Muslim countries about the perpetrators of 9/11 attacks as significant minorities cite the US government itself and in a few countries Israel. These responses were given to an open-ended question that did not offer response options.
According to a survey by WorldPublicOpinion, 46 [...]

UK: London mosque row highlights Muslims’ struggle for status

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…If officials grant planning permission the mosque, in the deprived but diverse district of West Ham in east London, will hold up to 12,000 worshippers and feature facilities including a school and conference centre. It is, though, a big if. The plan has drawn [...]

Iran: Iraq crisis tops Muslim world’s agenda

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In a meeting with the Head of the United Iraq Coalition (UIC), Abdel Aziz Hakim, the Iranian official voiced full support for the Iraqi government, saying a solution to the conflict in Iraq lies in the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country.
The Iranian Parliament [...]

7 Countries Considering Abandoning the US Dollar (and what it means)

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It’s no secret that the dollar is on a downward spiral. Its value is dropping, and the Fed isn’t doing a whole lot to change that. As a result, a number of countries are considering a shift away from the dollar [...]

Egypt’s Bold N-Step

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Last week, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced the relaunch of his country’s nuclear energy program, on hold since the 1986 Soviet Chernobyl disaster.“Egypt will go through with the nuclear energy project in the belief that energy security is a basic element in building the future of the homeland [...]

USAF Struck Syrian “Nuclear” Site

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The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a suspected nuclear [...]

The Shame of Diego Garcia

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One of the more sordid and long-running stories in Anglo-American colonial history — that of Diego Garcia, the chief island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean — reared its ugly head again on Friday when the UK’s all-party foreign affairs committee announced plans to investigate [...]

UAE healthcare market to have risen from US$3.2 billion in 2005 to US$11.9 in 2015

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In line with the on-going preparation of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry to organize and host the Dubai-Hamburg Business Forum 2007, due to be held on October 23-24, the Chamber prepared a number of studies [...]

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; six decades of suffering

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Several hundred thousand Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, mostly in awful conditions, almost 60 years after they and their forebears were expelled or fled from their lands. Their appalling social and economic conditions demonstrate forcefully the failure of successive governments in Israel and [...]

Racist European football fans get kicks from abusing Muslim players

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Here are some sounds from the playing fields of Europe on an average Sunday: “Bin Laden! You know where he is!” “Have you got a first-aid kit or is that a suicide bomb?”No, it’s not what Italy’s Marco Materazzi told France’s Zinedine [...]

America’s Unlawful Combatants

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The recent unprovoked killings by US private security guards in Iraq have sparked a debate within the Bush administration about whether the hired contractors could be considered unlawful combatants under Geneva Conventions.”I think it is an unresolved issue that needs to be addressed,” a senior Defense Department official told [...]

Soaring Stocks in the Islamic World

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They are some of the most volatile places on Earth, home to religious zealots and ideologues morally opposed to the West’s system of charging interest on loans…Yet despite it all, a foursome of Islamic countries—Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, and Turkey—have seen their stock markets soar in recent [...]

The rise of mosques becomes catalyst for conflict across Europe

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A minaret planned for a Swiss village has prompted the latest of several disputes over new places of worship…And in a case that has gone all the way to Switzerland’s supreme court, setting a keenly watched precedent, the Turks of Wangen have just won [...]

US strategy branded a disaster

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The US-led war on terrorism had been a disaster and Washington and its allies must change their policy in Iraq and Afghanistan to defeat al-Qaeda, an independent organisation of experts said yesterday.
The Oxford Research Group said in a report that Western strategy since the September 11, 2001, [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

Why Did Israel Attack Syria?

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The latest accusations should be seen as an example of Israel and the neocons “creating their own reality”, as one Bush adviser famously observed of the neocon philosophy of power. The more that Hizbullah, Syria and Iran are menaced by Israel, the more they are forced to [...]

Petition to EU on Uzbek sanctions

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To: GAERC Council, Representatives of EU Member States
Representatives of civil society call on the European Union to extend sanctions against the government of Uzbekistan…The machine of fabricating cases against devout Muslims and people with independent religious beliefs shows no sign of abating. The authorities do not make any [...]