What Allah wants her to be
By KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
Special to the Union Leader
Sunday, Apr. 29, 2007
Exeter – They wore long skirts and head scarves, business suits, jeans and sweaters. One tee nage girl wore a head scarf and jeans. They came from a rich mix of countries, including America, and spanned a variety of professions. [...]
Dr. Iqbal Unus, International Institute of Islamic Thought
The English acronym SALAM is a transliterated version of the corresponding Islamic terms. I want to use the letters of SALAM to refer to a process of dealing with conflict. The SALAM model points to a systematic way of approaching the conflict and moving towards a fair resolution, [...]
Source: nbc4.com
ARLINGTON, Va. — Federal Officials said an Arlington man faces a slew of charges after he allegedly sent e-mails to family members threatening to kill Arab women and Latinos.
The FBI arrested 57-year-old Charles Gerbino Thursday morning in his Arlington home.
Video: Watch The Report
Related: Excerpts From Threatening E-Mail (WARNING: Remarks May Be Offensive To Some)
The [...]
Sources: The New York Times and The Muslim Observer
A survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre has been describing how a colleague died to protect others. Although badly injured, graduate student Waleed Shalaan distracted gunman Cho Seung-Hui to save another person from his bullets.
Waleed saved another student’s life.
The surviving student, who wishes to remain anonymous, told [...]
Source: World Public Opinion, 24 April 2007, 14:00 GMT
Contact: Steven Kull, 202-232-7500
College Park, MD—A poll of four major Muslim countries has found that in all of them large majorities believe that undermining Islam is a primary goal of US foreign policy. Most inhabitants from these countries want US military forces out of the Middle East.
Many support expanding [...]
Source: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
A multinational poll finds that in 10 out of 15 countries, the most common view is that the United States cannot be trusted to “act responsibly in the world.” Respondents were allowed to choose whether the United States could be trusted “a great deal,” “somewhat,” “not very much” or [...]
TU THANH HA
From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail
MONTREAL — When news came that young Muslim girls had been turned away from a tae kwon do competition in Quebec because they wore Islamic head scarves, one of the people upset was the former dean of engineering of the University of Ottawa.
Aside from being an electrical engineer, Tyseer [...]
To the victims who survived the massacre at Virginia Tech yesterday, and to the relatives and friends of those who did not, we offer our best wishes and pray that God uplifts you during these difficult times. May God Bless you all.
Rafik Beekun
Source: Abbie Vansickle, St Petersburg Times
Someone deliberately set fire Thursday morning to the Islamic Education Center of Tampa,Florida, a mosque tucked into a neighborhood of tidy suburban homes in Town ‘N Country, according to Hillsborough Fire Rescue and the FBI.
Whether hate fueled the fire remained under investigation, said FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier.
The arsonist found [...]
Dr. Mahmoud Abu - Saud
(Edited by Shahid Athar , M. D.) and reprinted here with permission.
Disease and Cure
“Perfect health” is a wish that humans crave for. They know that they can never attain this state of perfection, if only because they cannot conceive what is “perfect”. Accordingly, they satisfy themselves with a relative “good health”, [...]
Source: Arab News and the World Economic Forum
DOHA, 11 April 2007 — The United Arab Emirates has the most competitive economy in the Arab world, according to the third Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007, released yesterday by the World Economic Forum. This report has been a major driver of efforts to advance economic reform in [...]
Source: AWD Money Extra
Lloyds TSB has announced the launch of a high street Islamic business account. The account, which complies with Islamic law (Shariah), is available across the bank’s 2,000 branches, and will be open to the UK’s estimated 100,000 Muslim firms.
There are two separate accounts on offer. Businesses with a turnover of up to [...]
Source: BIG
April 2, 2007
The latest report of the International Development Select Committee regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territories (31 January 2007) makes for very distressing reading. In its section on trade, it refers to the ongoing restrictions in movements and access faced by the OPT, citing an OXFAM report which points out “that transaction costs for [...]
Source: Jamal Badawi and Rafik Beekun
Mar. 30 - Islam has from the beginning stressed the role of man in protecting the environment. As Allah’s vicegerents on earth and as suggested by the Prophet (s), we need to take good care of our environment.
As indicated by Jamal Badawi, the Prophet of Islam was keenly aware of ecology [...]
A Short Biography of Sheikh Ahmed Deedat
Sheikh Ahmed Hoosen Deedat was born on the 01 July 1918 in the Surat district of India in 1918. His father emigrated to South Africa in 1927 with him. Ahmed Deedat was a very bright student and excelled in school. Lack of finance interrupted his schooling and at an [...]
The general rule in Islam is that any beverage that get people intoxicated when taken is unlawful, both in small and large quantities, whether it is alcohol, drugs, fermented raisin drink, or something else.
In his book Al-Halal wal Haram fil Islam (The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam) Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi states the following:
“The first [...]
Samir Al-Saadi, Arab News
JEDDAH, 1 April 2007 — The Ministry of Labor has warned employers that it is serious about Saudization and has banned 107 companies from recruiting foreign workers because they have failed to meet Saudization targets. Twelve of the 107 companies had a zero percentage of Saudization and only eight of the companies [...]
Table 1:
Social and economic costs of alcohol abuse for selected countries
Country
Year
Total Cost Estimate
% of GDP
Australia
1998–1999
A$ 7560.3 million
N.A.
Canada
1992
$7.52 billion
1.1
Chile
N.A.
$2.969 billion
N.A.
Finland
1990
$3.351-5.738 billion
N.A.
France
1997
115 420.91 FF
1.42
Ireland
N.A.
€2.4 billion
N.A.
Italy
2003
€26–66 billion
5–6
Japan
1987
US$ 5.7 billion
N.A.
Netherlands (the)
N.A.
€2.577 billion
N.A.
New Zealand
1990
$16.1 billion
4.0
Scotland
2001–2002
$1.071 billion
1.5
South Africa
N.A.
$1.7 billion
2.0
Switzerland
1998
6480 million Swiss francs
N.A.
United Kingdom (the)
N.A.
£15.4 billion
N.A.
United States (the)
1998
$184.6 billion
N.A.
List of 2004 Rate of Alcohol Abstainers in the Adult Population by Country
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