Bismillah [IslamCity] Pls take action asap
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pls take action asapDate: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:17:53 + Please Read and take action as soon as possible. Ask everyone to help. AssalamDEFEND OUR BELOVED PROPHET MUHAMMAD???/complaintFYI please complaint...inform allARE U A MUSLIM..? IF SO READ ONThis is an email I received fromthePreston Muslim group. It is very disturbing.Aslaamulaikum wa rahmatullahDear brothers and sisters, It has been brought to my attention thatthere will be an awful film appearing soon in America which depictsour Beloved Prophet (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)as a homosexual, just when we thought these people could not stoop anylower! Our beloved prophet was one of the greatest men, and this isjust a mockery of his life, we have a responsibility as Muslims to dosomething about this... so act now, all you have to do is sign yournames below this email was sent to me by a Christian friend, what areMuslim people doing about this horrendous thing? Remember Allah SWT isall knowing and all aware, this is our Deen that is being attacked wehave a responsibility to stop it!!! Please don't just forward it!!Please copy this message and paste the text in a new e-mail, then addyour name to the list and send it to everyone you know. When the list you sign reaches 550 names, please send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] then start again... IF WE WORK TOGETHER WE CAN DO THIS. Thank you!1. Waseema Taliep 2. Tayyib Moodley3. Ra-iq Moodley 4. Na-fi Moodley 5. Sedick Taliep6. Shaheena Taliep 7. Munthir Taliep8. RayaanTaliep9. Mufeedah Taliep 10. Sara Royal11. Mariam Royal12. Adiel Royal 13. Roshan Taliep14. Samieg Adams15. Waseema Martin 16. Sayeeda Hassan17. Shamiela Essa 18. Moegamad Raushan Salie19. Ridah Naidoo20. Muniba Dienie21. SHARIEF LAWRENCE22. Tasneem Wise 23. Nabeelah Wise 24. Mahir Du Toit 25. Zarif Kahn26. Saliem Kahn27. Nesha Kahn28. Tahira Kahn29. Yaghyah Kahn 30. Shaida Kahn31. Ameer Kahn32. Seema Kah33. Gafsa Abrahams34. Abdul Aziz Cassim 35. Zubair Karolia 36. Fazel Esakjee 37. Aysha Bangie38. Deen Naidoo39. Junaid Kikia40. Ebrahim Halim 41. Anwary Motalib42. Ziyaad Subjee43. Rookshana Goolam44. Sumaiyah Essop45. Aneesah Salejee46. Hawa Valli 47. Khanita Thomas 48. Kaashifah Thomas 49. Azeezah Valli 50. Ebrahim Rajah51.Niezaar Moola52.Fatima Moola53.Aadil Mahamed54. Muaazam Mahamed55. Abdullah Mahamed56.Yesmeen Mahamed57.Shahista Ismail58.Sadia Ismail59. Saajida Ismail60. Shaheed Ismail61. Tasneem Mooideen62. Fatima Abdoola63. Asif Ahmed64. Suhail Ally65.Sameera ally66. Sabeeha Ally67.Shezaad Ali68. Sajidah Ali69.Farnaz Ali70.IQbal Ally71.Mumtaz Akhalwaya72.Mahmood Akhalwaya73. Hasina Ally74.Shaheed Ebrahim 75. Amina Khan 76.Ziyaad Ebrahim 77Raeesa Ebrahim78.Nishaat Sallie79. Ahmed Laher 80 Sadiyya Makda81 Fatima Makda 82. Zubair Bux 83. Zaibaa Shaik Husein 84. Hoosen Younus Suleman85. Zakhiyya Khan 86. Sumaya Kader87. Razia Kader88.Razeena Moolla 89. FAEEZ LATIB90. Saiid Naseem Sattar91. Zubeida Matthews 92. Raeesa Mansoor93. Ziad Mangera94 Ebrahim Nabi 95. Shakiera Scott96 Nizaam Samaai97 Asa Scott98 Shaakir Scott99 Rushaana Kabley100 Ansahr Jardine101 Lamees Jardine 102 Saleem badurally 103 Farhanah Badurally Adam 104 Dulmeer Reshad 105 Yasmyn 106. HASNA (www.straight-path.piczo.com) 107Ameena 108 sumera 109 SOMEYA 110 Sofia M111 Zaara 112 Nahid 113. Shazia 114. Reena115. Kalam 116 Roshid 117 Noor Ali 118 Mohammed Ali 119 Shakeel Ahmed 120 Abdus Salam 121 Sofina Robbani 122 Ruhela UK 123 Fathima -London124. fahmida125.amina khatun126. FAIZAH KHAN127.Shahida128. Salina129. Bushra130. Faisal Hanif131. Muhammad Shahbaz132. Mudassar Rafique133.Faiza urooj 134.Saeed Khalid135.shumaila136.Mazhar Rafi 137.Mansoor A Baloch 138.Ghulam Murtaza 139. M Kamran Farooqui 140. Muhammad Qasim 141.Ali Raza 142. Junaid Munir143. Salman Haroon144. Abdul Waheed145. Aasim Ahmed Discover the new Windows Vista Learn more! _ Win 100’s of Virgin Experience days with BigSnapSearch.com
Bismillah [IslamCity] America was conned - who will pay?
America was conned - who will pay? The South Sea Bubble ended in riots as trust was lost. Wall Street also duped the public http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/17/economics.useconomy About this article Close This article appeared in the Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardianon Monday March 17 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/mar/17 on p30 of the Financialhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/mar/17/mainsection/financial3section. It was last updated at 00:05 on March 17 2008. Bear Stearns marks the moment when the global financial crisis went critical. Up until last Friday, it had been possible - just about - to believe that the worst was over and that things were about to get better. That pretence was stripped away when JP Morgan, at the behest of the Federal Reserve, stepped in when the hedge funds pulled the plug on the fifth-biggest US investment bank. It is now clear that no end is in sight to the turmoil, and the reason for that is that the Fed and the US treasury are no closer to solving the underlying problem than they were eight months ago. The crisis will only end when house prices stop falling and banks stop racking up huge losses on their loans. Doing that, however, will require the US government to intervene directly in the real estate market to end the wave of foreclosures. Ideologically, it is ill-equipped to take that step and, as a result, property prices will fall and the financial meltdown will go on and on. Ultimately, though, action will be taken because there will be political pressure for it. Indeed, it is somewhat surprising that there is not already rioting in the streets, given the gigantic fraud perpetrated by the financial elite at the expense of ordinary Americans. The US has just had its weakest period of expansion since the 1950s. Consumption growth has been poor. Investment growth has been modest. Exports have been sluggish. But if you are at the top of the tree, the years since the last recession in 2001 has been a veritable golden age. Salaries for executives have rocketed and profits have soared, because the productivity gains from a growing economy have been disproportionately skewed towards capital. *Patriotic * For ordinary Americans, though, it has been a different story. Real wages have been growing slowly; at just 1.6% a year on average over the latest upswing, well down on the experience of earlier decades. Business, of course, needs consumers to carry on spending in order to make money, so a way had to be found to persuade households to do their patriotic duty. The method chosen was simple. Whip up a colossal housing bubble, convince consumers that it makes sense to borrow money against the rising value of their homes to supplement their meagre real wage growth and watch the profits roll in. As they did - for a while. Now it's payback time and the mood could get very ugly. Americans, to put it bluntly, have been conned. They have been duped by a bunch of serpent-tongued hucksters who packed up the wagon and made it across the county line before a lynch mob could be formed. The debate now is not about whether the US is in recession but how deep and long that recession will be. Super-bears have started to say that this is perhaps The Big One, by which they mean the onset of a new Great Depression. The need to rescue Bear Stearns has done little to still those voices. As the economics team at HSBC recently pointed out, there has been a catastrophic breakdown of trust, and when that has happened in the past - the US in the 1930s, Japan in the 1990s - chucking extra money at the banks in the hope that they will start lending again proves ineffective. It's not hard to see why trust has become such a rare commodity: Wall Street at the height of the securitisation mania had, in effect, become London at the time of the South Sea Bubble crisis in 1720. Vast quantities of funny paper were changing hands even though those involved in the deals had no idea of their true worth. Nor did they care. Inevitably, now the bubble has burst and the huge Ponzi securitisation scam has been exposed, there has been a reaction. The securitisation market is dead, there is less money sloshing round the system, banks are hoarding their cash. Having allowed the housing boom to rage out of control for too long and then delaying cuts in interest rates until the housing market was gripped by recessionary forces, the Fed is now trying to make up for lost time with a burst of hyperactivity. It will cut interest rates on Wednesday and keep cutting them: financial markets expect the Fed funds rate to be 1% by the summer, and they are probably right. In most downturns, easier monetary policy does the trick. Lower interest rates make it cheaper to borrow and also change the trade-off between saving and spending. This may not be the usual sort of downturn, however, with consumers going through a period of debt revulsion after the excesses of recent
Bismillah [IslamCity] Final Communique of the First Conference of Humanitarian Organizations in the OIC Member States
Final Communique of the First Conference of Humanitarian Organizations in the OIC Member States Date: 10/03/2008 - The First Conference of Humanitarian Organization in the OIC Member States gathered in the resort of Sally Portudal in the Republic of Senegal from 7 to 9 March 2008, - Inspired by the provisions of the Ten-Year Programme of Action to meet the challenges facing the Islamic Ummah in the Twenty-First Century adopted by the Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference held in Makkah Al Mukarramah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in Dhulqaadah 1426H (December 2005); - In pursuance of the resolutions adopted by the 34th session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, held from 28 to 30 Rabiul Thani 1428H (15-17 May 2007) in Islamabad, Islamic Republic of Pakistan; - Guided by the outcome of the Consultative Meeting Preparatory to the First Conference of Humanitarian Organizations in the OIC Member States, which was held in the City of Doha, Qatar, on 15-16 January 2008. -Upon the kind invitation of His Excellency Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Senegal; - And given the belief of charitable and humanitarian organizations in the importance of joint humanitarian action, of ensuring the conditions of its success and raising its standard through cooperation with the Organization of the Islamic Conference, makes the following recommendations: I.Recommendations of the Workshop on Capacity Building and Databases 1. Call on government bodies to support the capacity building programmes of charitable and humanitarian organizations and to develop this sector so as to ensure the scientific professionalism required to contribute effectively to development efforts. 2.Root the concepts of humanitarian work in Islamic values and principles. 3.Establish within the OIC a centre for studies, information and training to be concerned with the work of organizations, disasters, crises and development needs in the Member States, it being understood that the States and humanitarian organizations will contribute to its establishment and provide it with information 4. Work towards benefiting from the expertise and the efforts of international organizations in building the capacities of Islamic organizations and in developing databases. II. Recommendations of the workshop on the national legislations on charitable and humanitarian action in the OIC Member States. 1. Observe within the framework of the national legislations and the establishment of oversight institutions a balance between the independence of charitable and humanitarian institutions and the criteria of control and oversight according to the best international practices. 2. Encourage consultation and particular participation with the charitable and humanitarian organizations in drawing up or developing national legislations. 3.Prepare formulations of legal models, rules and regulations for charitable and humanitarian work within the framework of the OIC to be used as a guide and inspiration by the Member States. 4. Establish a committee in Member States’ parliaments and councils in charge of relations with humanitarian and charitable organizations in these States. 5. Energize the role of Zakat, Waqfs, financing and local donations in Member States to support charitable and humanitarian action and fill the legislative gaps therein. 6. Endeavor to adopt codes of conduct and a code of honor for humanitarian and charitable action in the Member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. III – Relations between Humanitarian Organizations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference 1. Welcome the adoption of consultative status to regulate and advance the relationship between humanitarian organizations in the Member States and the OIC in pursuance of resolutions 1/34-ORG and 3/34-ORG adopted by the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, calling upon Member States to support the Secretary-General’s efforts to that end. 2. Endeavor to develop the relationship between humanitarian organizations and the OIC in accordance with the best practices at the international level. 3. Stress the role of the OIC as a coordinator in emergency humanitarian situations, proceeding from the fact that this relation is one of coordination, cooperation and complementarity. 4. Help provide information and technical assistance in the humanitarian and charitable field. 5.Endeavor to create a relief fund to support humanitarian and charitable action in the Muslim world. 6.Take advantage of the international early warning system to strengthen capacities in the areas of preparedness and response in the Muslim world. 7.Organize humanitarian and charitable NGOs annual meeting ahead of the ICFM meetings. 8.Establish a department within the General Secretariat of OIC mandated to oversee humanitarian issues and coordinate relations with the humanitarian and charitable NGOs in
Bismillah [IslamCity] hadith: human birth Satan
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, When any human being is born. Satan touches him at both sides of the body with his two fingers, except Jesus, the son of Mary, whom Satan tried to touch but failed, for he touched the placenta-cover instead. Sahi Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 54, Number 506
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Bismillah [IslamCity] ruling: Internet relationships
Question # 91868: Internet relationships Question: I am a female college student. My problem is that I have gotten to know a young man over the internet. In the beginning the relationship was one of respect and exchanging information, until it turned into love. My mother rejects the idea of me marrying him, and she has threatened to tell my father about this relationship. I cannot do without him and he feels the same way, because he has told me that he will commit suicide if we cannot get married. I hope that you can advise me. I cannot be apart from him and he does not. Answer: Praise be to Allaah. Note - may Allaah bless you - that our great religion firmly warns us against forming relationships between the sexes outside the framework of marriage and firmly closes the door to the calamity of introduction programs that are propagated by means of newspapers, magazines and the internet. These warnings are a means of warding off fitnah (temptation and tribulation) and preventing love affairs which usually lead people to commit acts of grave immorality and transgression of the sacred limits set by Allaah - Allaah forbid - or they lead them to marriages that end in failure and are filled with suspicion and mistrust. First of all, you made a mistake by entering the chat room before knowing what the Islamic ruling on that is. Then you made another mistake by forming a relationship and friendship with a young man who is not related to you. Beware of making a third mistake by marrying him because he claims to love you sincerely and you are afraid that he may commit suicide! Marriage that is not based on a sound Islamic foundation is doomed to end in failure and regret. A young man who has spent all this time forming a relationship with a girl through chat rooms and telephone calls is in fact a young man who has no religious commitment, modesty or manners, and he cannot be entrusted with the honour of the Muslims. His threat to commit suicide means one of two things: Either he is sincere in his threat, which means that he is very weak in faith, because killing oneself is a major sin - may Allaah keep us safe and sound; Or he is lying, which means that he is a hateful opportunist and a fool, as well as a selfish individual who cares only for his own personal interests. If you were to marry this person, it would not take very long before suspicions arose which would lead to him losing trust in you and not having a peaceful or relaxed life with you. From his point of view, a girl whom he gets to know through talking on the phone or through chat rooms cannot be trusted not to form relationships with others. This will occupy his thoughts and make him anxious. Finally, you should note that this advice which we are offering to you is based on sincere concern for you. You should learn a lesson from the experience of other girls who have fallen victim to love relationships and lost their honour as a result. You should give up this young man immediately and repent to Allaah and ask His forgiveness, and praise Him for saving you from committing immoral actions even though the means that lead to them are easily available. You should also praise Him for putting obstacles in the way of this marriage, through your family's refusal. Start a new life filled with purity and chastity, regret and prayers for forgiveness, keeping away from the things that lead to temptation and immorality. Do a lot of righteous deeds, read a great deal of Qur'aan, and attend many righteous gatherings. With time, your relationship with this person will fade, for it is based on emotions that are not based on shar'i guidelines or wise thinking. Beware lest the Shaytaan ensnare you and makes you think that you cannot forget or sever the relationship forever; these are just whispers and tricks, and devilish attempts to keep you in the hell of love and emotion, and distract you from the higher aims of sincere devotion and submission to Allaah and constant striving to please Him. We ask Allaah to give you a way out from your distress and anxiety. Dr Riyaadh al-Musaymeeri. http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=21933ln=eng Question # 93553: If he asks her to say I accept So and so as a husband before Allaah, does she become his wife? Question: My problem is that I got to know someone on the Net and we loved one another, but after that he asked me to marry him so that our conversing would not be haraam, and the way to do that was that I would say: I, So and so, accept So and so as a husband before Allaah. After that he asked me to take off my hijab in front of him but I refused because I was not convinced about this marriage with regard to its conditions. He said: There was acceptance and the mahr (dowry). I said: I don't want it and there were no witnesses. He said: There were witnesses; but I
Bismillah [IslamCity] Palestine Petitition: The Wall Must FALL!!
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Bismillah [IslamCity] A Global-Warning........ instead of the Global-Warming
http://frustratedarabdiary.blogspot.com A Global Warning instead of a Global Warming The Global Warming is every-body's concern and World's poverty is also a global concern and Unemployment and AIDS are of the same calibre so are also Renewable Energy and the cost of Energy and its environmental consequences. We are agree here, don't we ?.. There are spots on this Globe and places and countries and people still oppressed by their own leaders, otherwise known as Dictatorships and also some countries , nations and people are totally on the verge of an extinction, otherwise known as ethnic-cleansing or simply Zionism.in my case. This seams to bother less the world's conscience especially when the oppressors were supposedly or even factually themselves once oppressed add to that formula the fact that the USA would do what ever it is asked to do, like invading Iraq on its behalf . or even to pay their aids and support in Euros instead of local normal Dollars Therefore many Icebergs may melt , and the sea-level may rise and all the unemployed may turn by hand all the wind-turbines to produce cheaper electricity.. The Ural-Sea may completely dry out and the South-Pole may turn into a tropical forest... In the meantime 3 Million occupied Palestinians will be soon evacuated because, once, 60 years ago and else-where , Hitler massacred Polish people and... the other 3 Million Palestinian Refugees may never come back home because the newly converted Jewish-Eskimos will replace them.. As you know , there are priorities. and they are to be respected if notthey are to be imposed Who cares for a Palestinian Child in Gaza ? when the Sahara-Desert is expanding ! or when the Global temperatures are rising by half a degree per year !! Where would we be ? without Al Gore's film . and also , who asked Jimmy Carter to write that book about Peace and Palestine ?? Jimmy ought to exclusively take care of those lonely Icebergs Sherlock Hommos demanding an apartheid for the white-Icebergs 17Th of March 2008 Visit my Blog before the rising-Sea-Level drowns it http://frustratedarabdiary.blogspot.com - Rise to the challenge for Sport Relief with Yahoo! for Good
Bismillah [IslamCity] America keeps bombing, so our currency does too!
Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:51pm EDT AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar's value is dropping so fast against the euro that small currency outlets in Amsterdam are turning away tourists seeking to sell their dollars for local money while on vacation in the Netherlands. Our dollar is worth maybe zero over here, said Mary Kelly, an American tourist from Indianapolis, Indiana, in front of the Anne Frank house. It's hard to find a place to exchange. We have to go downtown, to the central station or post office. That's because the smaller currency exchanges -- despite buy/sell spreads that make it easier for them to make money by exchanging small amounts of currency -- don't want to be caught holding dollars that could be worth less by the time they can sell them. The dollar hovered near record lows on Monday, with one euro worth around $1.58 versus $1.47 a month ago. (Reporting by Svebor Kranjc, writing by Reed Stevenson) -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain
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Bismillah [IslamCity] Palestinian Youth are Not Safe from Israeli Bullets
Palestinian Youth are Not Safe from Israeli Bullets (Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 17 September 2004)20 September 2004 The death and disorientation of the children of Gaza In their homes, in the street, in UN-run schools, Palestinian youth are not safe from Israeli bullets Chris McGreal in Khan Yunis Friday September 17, 2004 The Guardian Raghda Alassar's classmates did not hear the Israeli bullet that tore into the nine-year-old's brain as she wrote an English test. But as a pool of blood spread across her desk and spilled on to the floor, a wall of screams rose from the classroom of the UN elementary school for girls in Khan Yunis. At that point Raghda was still crying for help. By the time she was hauled into the trauma room of a neighbouring hospital she was silent. For five crucial days the army blocked Raghda's transfer to an Israeli hospital with the facilities to offer a glimmer of hope. An infection set in. On Tuesday doctors told her father, Adnad, that she was brain dead. The bullet entered under her eye and went out the back of her head, Mr Alassar said. It took them a long time to stop the bleeding, and her heart stopped and they gave her shocks. From that moment she was like a dead body, although she wasn't dead. I find it so difficult to believe what happened to my daughter. She was at school, just carrying her notebook, not a gun. What is my daughter - nine years old - guilty of that she has to be shot? It's state terror against the whole population. In recent weeks the Israelis have again been preoccupied with terrorism, from the murder of 16 people in the Beersheba bus bombings to the slaughter of Russian schoolchildren in Beslan, which received blanket coverage. During the six months of relative peace for Israelis, until the Beersheba bombings, the army killed more than 400 Palestinians. Most were fighters, but they also included about 40 children under 15. Palestinians say this also is a form of terror. We're always listening for the helicopters, listening for the tanks, listening for the bombs, said Khitam abu Shawarib, the only social worker in Rafah refugee camp, on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. I am very sorry when I hear of a Jewish woman or children killed. I think it is wrong and many people here think it is wrong. But what the Jews suffer is nothing to the terror we live with from them. It takes such a toll on our health, on society, most of all on the children. Israelis live in fear of random attacks, principally the suicide bombing of buses and cafes, and shootings in the occupied territories. But they are generally safe in their homes and are more likely to be killed in a road accident than by a bomb. In southern Gaza and parts of the West Bank there is often no sanctuary from the seemingly relentless, indiscriminate Israeli shooting. Israel classifies Gaza Strip towns such as Rafah and Khan Yunis, and Nablus and Jenin in the West Bank, as war zones. That, the army says, justifies the firing of powerful sophisticated weapons into residential areas or the bulldozing of scores of homes each month, ostensibly in search of rarely discovered tunnels for smuggling in weapons. Barely a night passes in Rafah or Khan Yunis without the machine-gun fire that has shredded hundreds of homes, forcing families to sleep in a single inner room behind bricked up windows or a second wall. Others live in the rubble of their bulldozed houses, perpetually in the firing line from the rarely seen soldiers high in the gun towers. A fortnight ago 15-year-old Mazen al-Ara was trying to lead his siblings away from tanks and heavy shooting around their house on the edge of the Philadelphi Road, the highly militarised border at Rafah. The army had partially destroyed the family home months before, but the Aras went on living there because they had no money to move. Usually they sheltered in an inner room when the shooting began, but that night it was so intense that Mazen said they would all be killed if they stayed. As he led the terrified group into the street, Mazen was caught by a burst of fire. The boy died; doctors took 18 bullets from his body. A few days earlier 10-year-old Munir al-Daqas left his home in Jabalya refugee camp to visit his grandparents' house five minutes' walk away. Israeli tanks were on the far side of the camp, but no one saw any danger in the heart of Jabalya, around its bustling market, in daylight. It must have been a sniper, his mother, Kifah, said. People told me as I was shopping in the market. I couldn't believe it. Munir was just there with me and now they were saying he was dead. Mrs Daqas unfolded a picture of the semi-naked body of her son in his grave. There is a bullet wound in the chest and another in the groin. In four years of intifada, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says, the army has killed 136 children in Rafah and Khan Yunis, a quarter of all the Palestinian
Bismillah [IslamCity] Facebook gets entangled in Middle East conflict
Facebook gets entangled in Middle East conflict By Joseph Nasr Complaints by Jewish settlers angry at Facebook for listing them as residents of Palestine prompted the popular social networking Web site to allow users to switch themselves back to Israel. Facebook users living in Maale Adumim, Ariel and other large Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank protested when the site automatically listed their hometowns as being in Palestine. A group of settlers accused the California-based company of having a political agenda. I was surprised and disappointed to find that my hometown of Ariel is listed in Facebook as being part of a country called 'Palestine,' wrote Ari Zimmerman in a posting on Facebook. I am a citizen of Israel, as are all of the other residents of Ariel. We do not live in 'Palestine', nor does anyone else. Brandee Barker, Facebook's director of communications, said users living in major settlement blocs can now choose between being listed as residents of Israel or Palestine. Facebook users in the Israeli West Bank settlements of Maale Adumim, Beitar Illit, and Ariel can now choose between Israel and Palestine, Barker said last week in an email to Reuters. Israel wants to hold onto Maale Adumim and other major settlement blocs under any future peace deal with the Palestinians. We also offer Hebron in both Israel and Palestine, Barker said, referring to the major West Bank city which is home to about 150,000 Palestinians and some 400 Jewish settlers. Barker said about 18 West Bank settlements were currently listed on Facebook and that many more would be added in the future, giving users the option of choosing Israel or Palestine. In a posting on a Facebook page used by settlers, Channah Lerman wrote: Be aware! Should you restore the cities of Judea, Samaria (the West Bank) ... people will get more enraged than they are already. Palestine is not a country. RIVAL GROUPS Palestinian users have set up their own Facebook group whose members threatened to cancel their accounts if Palestine was removed from the site. Called If Palestine is removed from Facebook, I am closing my account, the group has over 4,700 members. We created this group to let our voices be heard not only among Facebook's management but all the users, and to tell everyone that Palestine is and will always be a country, Saif Qadoumi, the group's 20-year-old founder, told Reuters. Sara Al, a group member, urged users in one entry to join a group called It's not Israel, It's Palestine, saying it was a response to another group set up by Israeli users advocating the opposite message. Please join to beat another group called 'It's not Palestine, it's Israel' which has 13,000 members, she wrote. Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, and annexed Arab East Jerusalem in a move that has not won international recognition. It regards all of Jerusalem as its capital. Facebook, for its part, identifies Jerusalem as part of Israel. Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of the state they aspire to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (Editing by Paul Casciato) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080317/wr_nm/settlers_palestinians_facebook_dc
Bismillah [IslamCity] Thought for the day
As Salaamu Alaikum
Patience
Patience is a virtue and a power too. Patience tells us that the journey of a
thousand miles begins with a single step and that we get over there one step at
a time. Patience teaches us not to rush. Knowing that there is a reason and a
season for everything it enables us to smile at the challenges, realizing that
there is an answer to every problem. And, even though we cannot see it, yet
there is awareness that within every crisis lies an opportunity.
PoEtEsS
Prayer, wisdom, knowledge and faith are the best gifts that I have……Zohra
Moosa
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom
(i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue
with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone
astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy
Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: My Lord is Allah (believes in
His Oneness), and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites
(men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: I
am one of the Muslims.} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: By Allah, if
Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of
camels. [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, Whoever
calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who
follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all.
[Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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Bismillah [IslamCity] The Importance of Manners
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