Category: Islam

According to the dictionary

    [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU Brand new track produced by Red Skull, taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of “terrorism”? The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. But what is “terror”? According to the dictionary I …

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The amiable historical mosquito

Phoenician footprints all over Beirut By Robert Fisk, Saturday 03 December 2011 … I walked down a Phoenician street the other day, built under Persian rule. A bit bumpy and uneven underfoot – like many a street in modern day Iranian and Lebanese cities – but this one happened to be about 2,600 years old. …

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Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez

‘Obama the Antichrist’ and end-times doctrine By Sarah Posner, Friday 18 November 2011 14.29 EST … Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 21 year old from Idaho Falls, Idaho was charged this week with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama by firing rifle shots at the presidential residence at the White House. The president, Ortega-Hernandez reportedly maintained, is …

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Script and art and religion

Will computers make extinct the last of Islam’s proud and honourable calligraphers? By Robert Fisk, Saturday 12 November 2011 … Dr Jamal Naja meets me in a coffee shop just down the road from his home in Alamuddin Street, a quiet almost mischievous face, greying hair, and he lays – with great care – a …

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Nothing to fear

Shariah Law: The Five Things Every Non-Muslim (and Muslim) Should Know By Qasim Rashid, 11/4/11 10:15 AM ET … 1. What does Shariah mean? Shariah is the law of the Qur’an and literally means “A path to life giving water.” In fact, the word Yarrah (i.e. the root of the Hebrew word Torah) means precisely …

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Paranoid nervous breakdown

America’s itch to brawl has a new target – but bombs can’t conquer Iran By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 3 November 2011 17.30 EDT … This time there will be no excuses. Plans for British support for an American assault on Iran, revealed in today’s Guardian, are appalling. They would risk what even the “wars of …

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An alliance deepened by prejudice

India and Israel: a friendship deepened by prejudice By Kapil Komireddi, Tuesday 25 October 2011 06.25 EDT … In 1974, the New York Times journalist Bernard Weinraub described India as “the loneliest post in the world” for Israeli diplomats. Having voted against the creation of Israel at the UN in 1947, India held back from …

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