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In the News
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Written by Ali al-Ahmed
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Monday, 14 December 2009 12:22 |
 Last week the Saudi city of Jeddah was afflicted by heavy rains that lasted
only a few hours but caused massive flooding and the deaths of more than 500
people. To lessen the embarrassment, official reports shrank the number of
flood-related deaths to just over 100. Jeddah is a great example of corruption. This city of more than 4 million people
still lacks a sewage system and treatment facility. The rain that fell last week
had nowhere to go but to flood the streets and neighbourhoods, creating havoc
and death in its path. |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:36 |
 Twenty-four former German diplomats urged the German government to take a
harder position against Israel and to rethink its Middle East policy.
In letters sent to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Guido
Westerwelle, they ask for a more resolute stance against Israel's settlement
policy. “Israel will not be able to keep on hoping to gain peace and retain its
hold on Palestinian territories at the same time,” the group wrote in a position
paper quoted by the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily.
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Written by Press TV
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 21:53 |
 At least 118 people have been killed and 197 others sustained injuries as
multiple bomb-rigged cars exploded in quick succession ripped through Iraqi
capital of Baghdad. Three bomb-rigged cars exploded in quick succession on Tuesday, striking the
Labor Ministry, a court complex and the new site of Iraq's Finance Ministry
whose previous building was destroyed in an August blast.
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Written by Islamic Human Rights Commission
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 11:14 |
 IHRC notes that various European ministers have condemned the vote, Sunday,
to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland. Even the Swiss government
have opposed the ban. However, IHRC is deeply concerned regarding other
political responses to the Swiss referendum on banning minarets. IHRC Chair Massoud Shadjareh stated: “The holding of the Swiss referendum itself was an anti-Muslim act, which should
have been roundly condemned by governmental leaders. Instead we find that key
political voices in Europe are unwilling to condemn even the profoundly
disturbing result." |
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Written by Suadad al-Salhy
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 10:42 |
 Incidences of cancer, deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply, Iraqi officials say, and many suspect contamination from weapons used in years of war and accompanying unchecked pollution as a cause. 'We have seen new kinds of cancer that were not recorded in Iraq before war in 2003, types of fibrous (soft tissue) cancer and bone cancer. These refer clearly to radiation as a cause,' said Jawad al-Ali, an oncologist in Iraq's second city of Basra. In the city of Falluja in western Iraq, scene of two of the fiercest battles between U.S. troops and insurgents after the 2003 U.S. invasion, a spike in the number of births of stillborn, deformed and paralysed babies has alarmed doctors. The use of depleted uranium in US and coalition weaponry in the 1991 war to liberate Kuwait and the 2003 Iraq invasion is well documented. |
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Written by Noam Chomsky
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:11 |
 The United States was founded as an "infant empire," in George Washington's
words. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture, much
like the vast expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. From the earliest days,
control over the hemisphere was a critical goal. Ambitions expanded during World
War II, as the US displaced Britain and lesser imperial powers. High-level
planners concluded that the US should "hold unquestioned power" in a world
system including not only the Western hemisphere, but also the former British
Empire and the Far East, and later, as much of Eurasia as possible. A primary
goal of NATO was to block moves towards European independence, along Gaullist
lines.
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Written by Mai Yamani
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Monday, 07 December 2009 16:31 |
 A crucially important conflict, woefully under-reported in the west, has now come to a head in the Middle East. In response to an ongoing fight that could spill out beyond the Arabian peninsula, Saudi Arabia has entered into direct war with the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. The Saudis' justification for intervening is that their national territory is under threat. But that argument is weak, and there is no national support for this war in either country. Rather, Saudi military intervention reflects the kingdom's wariness toward a hostile Shia region on its southern border, especially given that the same tribes and sects that populate northern Yemen dominate the southern Saudi regions of Jizan and Najran. |
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Written by UN News Centre
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 11:08 |
 The United Nations human rights chief spoke out today against the Swiss ban on the building of new minarets, calling it a discriminatory and deeply divisive step which risks putting the county on a “collision course” with its international rights obligations. “I hesitate to condemn a democratic vote, but I have no hesitation at all in condemning the anti-foreigner scare-mongering that has characterized political campaigns in a number of countries, including Switzerland, which helps produce results like this,” High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated. “Some of the politicians who proposed this motion argued that it wasn’t targeting Islam or Muslims,” she said. “Others claimed that banning minarets would improve integration. These are extraordinary claims when the symbol of one religion is targeted.” |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 26 November 2009 23:42 |
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 Today, the bloodstained claws of enemies are busy unleashing tragic scenes here and there across the Islamic lands; Palestine languishes under the wicked grip of Zionists and suffers a widening tribulation. The Al-Aqsa Mosque faces a grave threat; innocent people of Gaza, having already been subjected to an unprecedented genocide and still endure the harshest conditions; Afghanistan, under the boots of the occupiers, witnesses a new suffering on a daily basis; in Iraq instability has robbed people of their calm and their peace of mind; in Yemen fratricide has struck the Islamic Ummah with a fresh grief.
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