IRAQ: EXIT THAT IS NOT EXIT
Vol. XLVIII No. 25
Date: September 19, 2010
Erdogan’s Victory Promises More Reforms
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan September 13 victory in a national ballot promises more reforms, which have by now made the country richer, more stable, more democratic and stronger…
Shifting High Court Judges
It refers to the initiative of Chief Justice of India for transferring about 20 High Court Judges to other states for a cleaner and better judicial system.
Revoke Globalisation Policies
When neoliberal policies were launched in 1991 by Dr. Manmohan Singh, then as the finance minister, he had promised that the benefits of his reforms would ‘trickle down’ to the aam…
Reforms in Higher Education
Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibbal has taken a right step by announcing admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) now on basis of marks obtained in class…
Babri Masjid: Stay Firm to Implement Verdict
In Babri Masjid dispute the Allahabad HC verdict is scheduled for September 24. Certain communalists are undermining the very foundations of India’s secularism and judiciary by refusing to abide by the…
IRAN SAYS IT HAS THE RIGHT TO BAR UN INSPECTORS
Iran’s nuclear chief said Tehran has the right to bar some UN inspectors from monitoring its disputed nuclear programme, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
PA TURNS DOWN REQUEST TO RECOGNISE ISRAEL AS A JEWISH
A senior Palestinian official on September 9 said the Palestinian Authority (PA) will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state, even though the PA acknowledges there is a Jewish majority…
SUDAN HITS BACK AT CLINTON COMMENT ON ‘INEVITABLE’ SPLIT
A senior Sudanese official on Thursday hit back at comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Sudan was facing a “ticking time-bomb” in the countdown to the “inevitable”…
ALGERIA’S EX-REBEL LEADER CALLS FOR TRUCE
A former leader of Algeria’s insurgency has for the first time urged members of Al-Qaeda’s North African wing to declare a truce. The appeal by Hassan Hattab, who gave himself…
SAUDI KING URGES MUSLIMS TO CLOSE RANKS TO PRESERVE UNITY
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation, on September 9
EL-BARADEI CALLS FOR EGYPT ELECTION BOYCOTT
Nobel laureate and Egypt’s leading democracy advocate Mohammed El-Baradei has made a forceful call for the nation to boycott November’s parliamentary election and urged his young supporters to be patient…
MALAYSIANS EMBRACE ISLAMIC GOLD DINAR
Malaysians are embracing gold dinars which were introduced last month by the northern state of Kelantan to promote usage of Islamic currency as an alternative to paper money. The gold…
ERDOGAN ALL SET TO WIN THIRD TERM
Turkey’s ruling AK Party sweep on September 13 celebrated victory in a referendum on constitutional reform that was seen boosting its chances of winning a third term of single-party rule…
AMU LECTURER BAGS SHIKSHA RATTAN PURASKAR
Dr. Riaz Ahmad, Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University has been conferred upon the Shiksha Rattan Puraskar by the prestigious India International Friendship Society (IIFS).
ENEMY PROPERTY: ONLY GOVT, NOT COURTS, CAN DECIDE
A new ordinance on enemy property, to replace the one that lapsed Sunday (September 5) midnight, has blocked the power of courts to decide the owner of assets of those…
POLITICIANS-TRUSTEES NEXUS BEHIND SELLING OF WAKF LANDS
A Minority Affairs Ministry report has reportedly revealed that lands belonging to various Wakf boards in India are being misused and even sold at throwaway prices.
COPS REWARDED FOR TOEING GOVT LINE DURING GUJARAT RIOTS
Retired DGP RB Sreekumar has filed a sixth affidavit before the Nanavati-Mehta Commission, this time listing out bureaucrats and police officers who were rewarded for toeing the official line or…
SC STAYS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 2 IN AKSHARDHAM CASE
The Supreme Court on September 5 stayed the death sentence of Adam Bhai Sulemanbhai Ajmeri and Abdul Kayum alias Muftisaab Mohmedbhai,
BJP MLA CONVICTED IN KANDHAMAL RIOT CASE
Sitting BJP MLA Manoj Pradhan was on September 9 sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for six years by a fast-track court for a murder during the 2008 communal riots in Orissa’s…
ACTIVISTS CONDEMN UPROAR AFTER SAFFRON TERROR REMARK
Activists have condemned the posters that have come up across the state of Gujarat attacking the saffron terror remarks by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. Anhad’s Shabnam Hashmi and Indukumar…
BABRI MASJID TITLE SUIT VERDICT ON SEPT 24
The verdict in the Babri Masjid title suit will be announced at 3:30 pm on September 24 by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court.
FIBROMYALGIA Cause of Enormous Suffering
Fibromyalgia (FMG) is a disease with enormous suffering and chronic widespread pain especially in patients who are under stress and depressed. It is not uncommon. It affects almost 2 to…
The Photo before the Storm Peace Talks Already Failed
A picture is not always worth a thousand words. The recently released photographs of Palestinian and Israeli leaders in Washington during their first direct talks in many months certainly don’t…
GLOBAL CRUSADE AGAINST ISLAM The US-Britain Defeated Empires in Iraq
The continued US-British planned crusade against Islam in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan give alarming signals of the failure of the global institutions and diplomacy for peace and the hope to…
The Teacher is No Longer There
The most prominent Muslim thinker of our generation born in Egypt in 1928 was buried in Southern California on September 11, 2010 leaving a void that is impossible to fill…
India Joins Worldwide Condemnation of Qur’ān Burning Move in the
India has condemned the plan by the pastor of a small Florida church to burn copies of the Holy Qur’ān to mark the 9/11 attacks and called on US authorities…
Does Burning Qur’ān Solve Your Problems?
It was on the news headlines that the Florida-based Dove World Outreach Centre church pastor Terry Jones has decided to burn a set of Qur’āns on the advent of September…
‘Muslims of America should Define Themselves’
MUHAMMAD ABDUL LATIF is the imam of Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California, and an instructor at ILM Tree, a home-schooling cooperative in Lafayette, California. He also teaches at Zaytuna College’s annual…
PEACE STARS OF 2010
Upon nomination by their colleagues and admirers, the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) has decided to honour Dr. Mohammad Arif, Jatin Desai, Ashfaq Fateh, Faisal Khan, Dilafrose Qazi…
Burn Hate and Bigotry
Epithets ranging right from outrage, abhorrent, terrible and repulsive, anti-Muslim frenzy, planned hate crime, to a vile and bigoted act, totally insensitive and disrespectful act toward the holy Qur’ān, deep…
IRAQ: EXIT THAT IS NOT EXIT
DR. S. AUSAF SAIED VASFI traces the motive behind the continued US occupation of Iraq.
