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Sunday, 29 July 2007 |
 Taught by Imam Ali (the first Divinely appointed Imam after the demise of the Holy Prophet of Islam) to his close companion Kumayl bin Ziyad, the supplication of Kumayl is one of the masterpieces of the Islamic tradition. A moving supplication that captures the centremost tenets of the Islamic faith with utmost humility in address and flowing eloquence. Imam Ali (a) draws the attention of the human conscience to the Glory and Majesty of the Almighty Creator, His unending Mercy and favours to creation in its entirety and our shortcomings in expressing gratitude for these favours. Comments (3)
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Wednesday, 25 July 2007 |
 "Star Wars in Iraq", produced by Maurizio Torrealta and Sigfrido Rannuci for Italy's RAI TV, documents the use of experimental weapons by US forces in Iraq. In November, the Pentagon was forced to admit to its' use of banned Phosphorus after the same Italian team of journalists produced an investigative documentary, "The Hidden Massacre", on the practise by US forces in Fallujah. Maurizio Torrealta and his colleagues now say the United States is using experimental laser weapons against Iraqi civilians; their claims supported by footage and witness accounts from Iraq in addition to Pentagon revelations on the 'fast-tracking' of weapons programmes still in research and development.Comments (2) |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
 Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah is the secretary-general of the Lebanese political party and resistance movement, Hezbollah. In February of 2006, before the Israel waged War on Lebanon, three former US diplomats had a chance to meet with Sayyed Nasrallah as part of a delegation to the Middle East organised by the Council for the National Interest. During the meeting, Sayyed Nasrallah outlined the origins of the conflicts in the Middle East, the formation of Hezbollah and the story of the national resistance movement in Lebanon. Sayyed Nasrallah also discussed Hezbollah's strategy to free Lebanese detainees being held illegally in Israel, emphasising that it's chosen strategy is the only available option for it to free detained Lebanese citizens. He also recollected the role that the United Nations Security Council, the United States and member states of the Arab Union played in recent Lebanese history during which they not only made no attempt to avail the Lebanese people of the military occupation at the hands of Israel, but instead supported the aggressions against Lebanon and labelled its' resistance movements as terrorists.Comments (1) |
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Monday, 16 July 2007 |
 In July 2006, Israel urged on by the US, attacked Lebanon with the systematic targetting of civilians and civilian infrastructure. The 12th of July marked the first anniversary of the War on Lebanon. Last year at this time, Israeli terrorism was ravaging the populated towns and cities of Lebanon; raining down tonnes of precision-guided bombs supplied by permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- the so-called 'security preserving' nations of the world. In addition to the use of banned chemical weapons during the war, in a final show of their true barbaric nature, Israel carpetted Southern Lebanon with over 4 million cluster bomblets in the final three days of the war. Today over 1.5 million unexploded cluster devices litter neighbourhoods and continue to kill and maim the innocent women and children of Lebanon on a daily basis. Be first to comment this article |
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
 As part of a series of lectures on Qur'anic sciences, Sheikh Abbas Jaffer speaks about the phenomenon of the Makkan and Medinite verses in the Holy Qur'an and their ideological and jurisprudential implications. Abbas Jaffer is a teacher at the Hawza Ilmiyya in London and is a frequent lecturer within the London community. In this lecture, he presents to the audience the various definitions of 'Makkan and Medinite' verses within academic circles before discussing the merit of this study and its integral place in the study of the Holy Qur'an.Comments (2) |
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
 Dr. Edward Said was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. A University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, he was regarded as a founding figure in postcolonial theory. In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts in 1998, Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking; that conflicts between different and "clashing civilizations" particularly the Islamic civilization, characterise the contemporary world. In response to Samuel Huntington's piece 'The Clash of Civilizations?', Dr. Said unravels some of the errors, absurdities and lack of scholarly research in the piece.Be first to comment this article |
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
 Clare Short, former Cabinet Minister and a vocal critic of Tony Blair's foreign policy and leadership style, speaks of the 'Blairite Legacy' on the Dateline programme. Days after resigning from her post in the Labour Party over the Iraq war, Clare Short famously told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the decisions to go to war in Iraq: "I think it is a series of half-truths, exaggerations and reassurances that were not the case to get us into conflict by the spring and I think that commitment had been made by the previous summer. I think nothing else explains the failure to allow Blix to complete his process and the way in which certainly I personally was deceived and I think the country was deceived..."Be first to comment this article |
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
 Nobody speaks openly about it but is Southern Iraq slowly becoming 'Shia-istan'? Threatened by Sunni insurgents and intimidated by their Arab neighbours, the Shias are pushing for autonomy. The consequences of such waves of 'Shi'ite resurgence' through political independence and autonomy progressing throughout the Middle East remains a frightful prospect for ruling monarchies and US foreign policy. Unfolding events in Iraq and recently in Lebanon, clearly indicate the growing focus being placed on Shi'ite movements in the Middle East. So, how should we try to understand this resurgence in Iraq?Comments (1) |
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
 Shi’ism, which came to Bahrain in 1500, is the island’s dominant religion. Between two thirds and three quarters of the Shia population is native in origin, the remainder being of Iranian descent. This division is social as well as cultural. The Iranian Shia, known as Ajam, are well represented in the middle class professions and politically inactive. They see their relative privilege as contingent on the good will of the ruling Sunni al-Khalifas and are reluctant to jeopardize their position. Their native counterparts, known as Baharna, occupy the lowest strata of society and constitute ninety per cent of the labour force. The two communities inhabit separate districts and there is little intermarriage between them. Defining themselves in opposition to the Ajam as well as ruling Sunnis, the Baharna have retained a strong Arab identity. Despite the segregation of the the two communities, antagonism arose in the 1950s and 60s as the schism between conservatives and Arab nationalists came to mark not only a division between Arab and Persian, but between rich and poor across the Arab world.
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
 Forty years on from the Israeli conquest of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, Lord Paddy Ashdown examines the historical, religious and political claims on one of the world's most famous cities and searches for potential solutions regarding its future status. On 7th June 1967 during the Six Day War, Israeli troops captured the Old City and for the first time in 2000 years Jews were in complete control of Jerusalem. For its Palestinian inhabitants, it was the start of a bitter illegal occupation that still continues today.Comments (1) |
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