Picture of the Day: Strawberry Poison Dart Frog
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Chomsky: 9/11 – was there an alternative?
Suppression of one’s own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated. Noam Chomsky We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1, the presumed mastermind of the […]
A Message of Peace from Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Malta
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta extended its message of peace and loyalty to all the world and to Maltese people and distributed flyers with the message of “Loyalty, Freedom, Respect, Equality, Peace” on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. Laiq Ahmed Atif, the president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta said that […]
Former Dutch intel chief: Anti-terror legislation gives intelligence too much authority
The former head of the Dutch secret services has criticised Dutch anti-terror legislation introduced in response to the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States, saying several have proved ineffectual while others have hardly been used. One example, according to former AIVD head Sybrand van Hulst, are the […]
The New World Order of Islam (14): A Destined Victory
Ahmadiyya mosque ‘Baitul Futuh’ in London, opened in 2005 Love will defeat violence The foundations of the New Order were not laid in Russia in 1910 or in any other country, nor will they be laid in future after the present war. As a matter of fact the New Order, […]
Cover price
Source: TOI on line One of the consequences of 9/11 was that national security became big business. Just how much has this protective cover cost the American taxpayer? Figuring that out is not easy given the fog that surrounds US defense expenditure. But a citizens’ group called National Priorities Project […]
No role in 9/11 attacks: Taliban
source:times of india WASHINGTON: The Taliban have said that their movement had no role in the 9/11 terror attacks and accused the United States of using the incident to invade Afghanistan where they have killed tens of thousands of innocent Afghans. In a defiant statement emailed to media, the Taliban […]
Islamophobia exposed
Source: Irfan Ahmed Khan of Germany Author and activist Tariq Ali spoke on ‘The Perils of Islamophobia’ last week at the annual Marxism festival in London ‘We live in dangerous and unpredictable times. If anyone had suggested 30 or 40 years ago that one of the central issues we would […]
Murder in the name of God
Source: The European Political Newspaper/ September 11, 2011 / Dr Charles Tannock (MEP) Member of the European Parliament for London People gather after Friday congregational prayers to protest for the release of Mumtaz Qadri, one of the elite police guard who killed Salman Taseer the governor of Pakistan’s most populous […]
Those who reject history, history rejects them! Hasan Nisar analyses Pakistani society (Urdu)
Source/Credit: Hasan Nisar a senior journalist and columnist analyses Pakistani society, through history, on Geo TV in ‘Mere Mutabiq’.
Terror response after 9/11: What US did and India didn’t?
Source: NDTV New Delhi — The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, changed the manner in which the world viewed terrorism. Days after 9/11, US soldiers pounded Afghanistan and Iraq; America’s internal security setup changed within months. On the other hand, India’s battle against terror has […]
Why 9/11 was good for religion
Source: The Guardian Author: Andrew Brown 9/11 strengthened fundamentalism in every global faith – and in atheism too. But it has also led to backlashes against these doctrines wherever they have appeared. In Islam there have been positive developments. The attacks were repeatedly and clearly condemned by Muslim leaders all […]
9/11 pushes Islam, Indonesia to prominence
Tyler Gnietwotta and Yohanna Ririhena, The Jakarta Post, Sometimes a phrase can be much more than just words and can find its way into everyday use in all aspects of life. This holds true with the Indonesian saying ‘from tragedy to opportunity’ as the nation overcame obstacles faced in the […]
Lessons from 9/11 – 10 Years Later
Haaretz: Here destruction is met with a resolve to do good. Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai is able to look past the tragedy. He seeks to rebuild his broken world on hesed, loving kindness, as it teaches in the book of Psalms. His words of comfort lay out a vision for […]
Ten years later – How the World has Changed?
Source: Dawn Author: Riaz Mohammad Khan TEN years ago to the day, the world experienced in real time a spectacular act of violence committed by a new, elusive force, non-state actors, driven by rage and for an ill-defined purpose. There has been greater carnage in the past, but the experience […]
“Today, I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart.” JFK
Courtesy / Source: CNN By Dean Obeidallah CNN) — I grew up in an interfaith home where I learned, despite what some on the far right allege today, that Islam and Christianity have much in common. My father was Muslim and born in the 1930s in what was then known […]
Palestine’s moment of truth
By Shane McGinley, ArabianBusinessCom Hanan Ashrawi is laughing heartily. With rockets shooting over the Gaza Strip and the conflict escalating, the job of a Palestinian politician is usually a pretty serious task. Therefore, it is a welcome sign that she can enjoy some light relief from time to time. So […]
Dawa center plans to hold year-round youth forums
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The eight-day youth forum organized by the Dawa Center of South Jeddah was a big success as it attracted thousands of young men and women and their parents, said Abdullah Bawazir, director of the center and chairman of the organizing committee. “I […]
Nationalist Congress Party (of India) to focus on Muslims grievances
By SHAHID RAZA BURNEY ARABNEWS MUMBAI: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) plans to focus on Muslim issues in the run-up to the civic elections due to be held in six months time. To discuss the Muslim problems and their grievances, a meeting of the NCP’s Other Backward Class (OBC) cell […]
September 11 highlighted radical faith; can it be defused?
By Tom Heneghan, Reuters, Jordan Times CAMBRIDGE, England – When Henry Kissinger published “Diplomacy”, his study of international relations, in 1994, it had no index entries for Islam or religion. Ten years later, another US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, wrote her own study on world affairs: “The Mighty and […]