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Shah Suleyman: The truly Byzantine origins of Turkey’s operation to rescue a long-dead body from the ‘Islamic Caliphate’

BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT The 13th-century fall of an obscure king into the river Euphrates, the pride of the Ottoman empire and modern Turkey and a humiliating French retreat after the 1914-18 war provide the truly Byzantine origins of Turkey’s little military operation to remove a long-dead body from […]

Musketeers of empty talk

The Daily Star The latest episode in the long-running U.N.-produced soap opera “peacemaking in Syria” emerged this week when envoy Staffan de Mistura informed the Security Council about the regime’s readiness to halt its attacks in Aleppo. However, the offer coincided with regime offensives in Aleppo as well as southern […]

Qur’an lesson for today: 386. Commandment – Men are guardians over women because Allah has made some of them excel others, and because they (men) spend of their wealth

386. Commandment – Men are guardians over women because Allah has made some of them excel others, and because they (men) spend of their wealth [4:35] Men are guardians over women because Allah has made some of them excel others, and because they (men) spend of their wealth. So virtuous […]

Expanded areas at Haram opened

JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Friday 20 February 2015 ARABNEWS.COM Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has instructed authorities to open the newly expanded areas of the Grand Mosque in Makkah for use by the growing number of Umrah pilgrims and worshippers. “King Salman has approved the […]

ISIS Really Wants Power—Not Islam

ISIS Really Wants Power—Not Islam February 18, 2015 by Qasim Rashid Recently The Atlantic published a piece titled, “What ISIS Really Wants.” The lengthy piece makes numerous fallacious claims about ISIS and its relation to Islam and Islamic doctrine. Accordingly, and significantly, it misses the strategy necessary to counter and […]

Qur’an lesson for today: 383. Commandment – Consort with them (wife’s) in kindness

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