Educational Guidance Programme 2012 – for Advance Level Students

     

Russia Sends at Least 12 Warships to Syria By Times of Israel staff

Deployment presumably a warning to Israeli and Western officials regarding military intervention against Assad   -"Times Of Israel"- In a move considered aggressive by US and European officials, Russia has sent at least 12 warships...

Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns By Paul Craig Roberts

Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantitative Easing is the term...

The Islamic Universe By Dr. Spahic Omer

Islam is a religion that inevitably leads to the creation of a virtuous comprehensive culture and civilization which benefits not only Muslims, but also non-Muslims and all the other worldly creatures as well. Islam also creates individuals who through...

Muslim Organizations Join Hands to Form an Interim Shoora Council By Latheef Farook

For the first time almost all  Muslim religious, social and cultural and other organizations and groups, buried their differences,  and met in one platform under one roof at Wellawatta Miami Reception Hall on Thursday 2 May 2013 to announce...

U.N. General Assembly Condemns Syria as Sceptics Multiply By Thalif Deen

Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, addresses the Assembly on May 15. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider UNITED NATIONS, May 15 2013 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly voted...

Womens rights/status in Islam and other civilizations

The status of women in Islam is often the target of attacks in the secular media. The ‘hijaab’ or the Islamic dress is cited by many as an example of the ‘subjugation’ of women under Islamic law. Before we analyze the reasoning...

U.N., Fluent in Anglo-French, Seeks to Go Multilingual By Thalif Deen

When Egypt’s onetime Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali was running for the post of U.N. secretary-general in late 1991, he had to contend with the candidature of Bernard Chidzero, then foreign minister of Zimbabwe. As the campaign began...

An Islamic perspective on Muslim – Buddhist dialogue – Compiled by Latheef Farook

This important need is being increasingly felt today than ever before due to ever increasing violence and bloodshed , ethnic conflict, religious strife and many other challenges that are threatening the stable social order, peace and security. Dr....

Best of the Best