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  • The Mind-Set of a Muslim Child

    The Missing Dimension in Educational Methods: The Sentimental Education The sentimental education pertains to the person's feelings, which form all sides of the integrated human personality. Sentiment is a word given to any sense of pleasure or pain, as well as to certain psychological states within the sphere of pleasure and pain, vis-à-vis.. More

  • Libyan woman tells of abuse

    A distraught Libyan woman has told journalists in Tripoli how she was raped by government troops, before being bundled away by officials. Iman al-Obeidi sought out foreign reporters in the capital's Rixos hotel on Saturday morning, weeping and claiming that troops had detained her at a checkpoint, tied her up, abused her and then led her away to be.. More

  • An approach to the translations of the meaning of the Quran into English

    The miracle of the Quran lies in its inimitable language, its beauty and eloquence of style. It was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, (may Allah exalt his mention) in the 7th century CE for all nations, people and races. Therefore, there has always been the need for translating its meanings into other languages... More

  • US Army “kill team” in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians

    German Magazine Der Spiegel has released hideous photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenseless Afghan civilians they killed. Senior officials at Nato's International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly Der Spiegel to the images of US soldiers abusing prisoners in.. More

  • UN Investigator: Israel Engaged in Ethnic Cleansing

    Israel's expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem and eviction of Palestinians from their homes there is a form of ethnic cleansing, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. United States academic Richard Falk was speaking to the UN Human Rights Council as it prepared to pass resolutions condemning settlement building in the West Bank and East.. More

  • A Daa'iyah, Except in One's Own Family - II

    Dear caregivers and Daa‘iyahs (callers to Islam) – male and female, Your role is no less important than that of the other. Together you bring up your child with a good upbringing -- you and not anyone else. First: The role of the father when he is a Daa‘iyah: Dear father, your role is extremely important. You are the head of the.. More

  • A Daa'iyah, Except in One's Own Family - I

    This is how he is and it is clear to everyone. From the rise of dawn to the fall of night, the Daa'iyah (caller to Islam) is out of his home, ardently fervent for his religion. He is eager to do anything to serve the religion of Allah The Almighty. He wishes he could change the world. This is his main concern. That is also the main concern of our.. More

  • Yemen: 'Chaos by Design'

    The political and economic problems facing Yemen: Yemen is probably the hardest [state in the region] in terms of economic challenges and development challenges. The people of Yemen are the poorest in the region. The state in Yemen is by far the weakest, compared to Libya in the sense of [the] absence of a real state, real institutions. I think that.. More

  • What would spark the next Fukushima?

    The gung-ho nuclear industry is in deep shock. Just as it and its cheerleader, the International Atomic Energy Agency, were preparing to mark next month's 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident with a series of self-congratulatory statements about the dawning of a safe age of clean atomic power, a series of catastrophic but entirely avoidable.. More

  • Israeli military not able to crush West Bank uprising

    Top commanders in the Israeli military are 'warning' that the military is completely incapable of crushing an Egypt-style popular uprising in the West Bank, assuming one actually begins. “There is nothing for it,” one of the commanders noted, and while the Israeli military apparently developed a major program last year to plan a response.. More

  • Failing in Afghanistan successfully

    While we have been fixated on successive Arab breakthroughs and victories against tyranny and extremism, Washington is failing miserably but discreetly in Afghanistan. The American media's one-obsession-at-a-time coverage of global affairs might have put the spotlight on President Obama's slow and poor reaction to the breathtaking developments starting.. More

  • The Cost of US Terrorism in Afghanistan: Incalculable

    Recent polls suggest that while a majority of U.S. people disapprove of the war in Afghanistan, many on grounds of its horrible economic cost, only 3% took the war into account when voting in the 2010 midterm elections.The issue of the economy weighed heavily on voters, but the war and its cost, though clear to them and clearly related to the economy.. More

  • The battle for Brega

    In the distance and high above, a Libyan air force jet circled over the town of Brega, a key oil port in eastern Libya around 330km from Sirte, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last remaining strongholds. As scores of revolution fighters armed with AK-47 assault rifles, shotguns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers watched from their staging point.. More

  • The story of Prophet Sulaymaan- II

    The queen of Sheba, upon receiving the letter from Sulaymaan, may Allah exalt his mention, was very disturbed and hurriedly summoned her advisors. They reacted as to a challenge, for they felt that there was someone challenging them, hinting at war and defeat, and asking them to submit to his conditions. They told her that they could only offer advice,.. More

  • Settlers rampage in W. Bank, damage Palestinian property

    Israeli settlers damaged houses and cars in two Palestinian villages on Tuesday, witnesses said, after Israel's demolition of homes in an unauthorized settler outpost. Villagers in Hiwwara in the occupied West Bank said settlers threw petrol bombs into a house, broke the windows of another, and burned several cars in the overnight rampage before moving.. More