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  • UN: Israel terrorized Gazans in war

    Israel "punished and terrorized" civilians in Gaza in a disproportionate attack in its three-week war on the territory earlier this year, a United Nations report has found. Judge Richard Goldstone, who led the inquiry, said he found evidence Israel targeted civilians and used excessive force in the assault, which was launched on December.. More

  • World food aid at 20-year low, 1 billion hungry

    Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the United Nations relief agency said Wednesday. The number of hungry people will pass 1 billion this year for the first time, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said, adding that it is facing a serious budget shortfall. To date.. More

  • Quds Day rally in Britain demands justice for murdered Gazan kids

    A rally in Britain called on Sunday for an end to Israeli "occupation" and demanded justice for "killers of Gaza children" in a Quds Day gathering thousands of British demonstrators joined despite an attempt of fascist groups to disrupt the peaceful rally, British newspapers said. Annual Al-Quds Day demonstration in Central London.. More

  • Contemporary sodomy –II

    Real life stories: We have received many questions from Muslims who live in the west in this regard; the following are two examples: · I live in Canada. My sister has a bisexual boyfriend and does not see any problem in this; she even goes with him to a gay nightclub. She also believes that we should accept this type of person in our community... More

  • Contemporary sodomy - I

    The grave and evil act of sodomy has various names in the Arabic language, some of which mean: · The act of the people of Loot, may Allah exalt his mention. · Sodomy. · Homosexuality. · Entering a person from the rear. · Same-sex relationships. This evil act has become widespread in the west and is being practised.. More

  • Ramadan in Saudi Arabia inspires conversion to Islam

    The Muslim blessed month of Ramadan has become a popular time for many non-Muslims, especially Filipino migrant workers, to convert to Islam. Everyday in Saudi Arabia, Islamic centers across the country open their arms to non-Muslim migrant workers who decide to join the world's fastest growing religion. During Ramadan, a period of fasting, Muslim.. More

  • Islam and Alcoholism - I

    In these days, countries that allow alcohol are suffering from it and the number of alcoholics is increasing rapidly. In the U.S.A., for example, the number of alcoholics has increased from four million in the 1960s to ten million in the 1970s. In Britain, the number of alcoholics has increased from half a million to one million. In some European countries,.. More

  • Soviet nuclear tests leave Kazakh fallout

    Decades of Soviet nuclear testing on the steppes of Kazakhstan have been blamed for an alarming number of health problems suffered by residents in the area. Now scientists are trying to determine whether the victims are passing on faulty genes to their children, the BBC's Rayhan Demytrie reports. "It looked like a mushroom, it grew bigger and.. More

  • Somali refugees trapped in camps 'barely fit for humans'

    Hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing unrest are now living in camps that Oxfam said on Thursday were horrifically overcrowded and unfit for humans. The fighting has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa nation, with one million internally displaced people and thousands more fleeing across borders to Ethiopia,.. More

  • CIA resists disclosure of records on detention

    The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to make public hundreds of pages of internal documents about the agency's defunct detention and interrogation program, saying such disclosures would jeopardize national security by revealing classified intelligence sources and operations. The C.I.A.'s argument to withhold the material, laid out Monday in.. More

  • Trapped between grief and hope

    In November 2008, an Iraqi mother called Sabria Jaloob received what she described as a "blessing". It was the body of her son, Noori, who had vanished during the 1980-88 war between Iraq and Iran and had not been heard of since. For more than two decades, Sabria did not know whether he was dead or alive, and lived under a shadow of uncertainty.. More

  • Practical benefits of breastfeeding

    Allah Almighty Says (what means): "…His mother carried him, [increasing her] in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning is in two years. Be grateful to Me and to your parents; to Me is the [final] destination." [Quran 31: 14] In this article, we will shed light on some facts discovered by modern medicine and study that confirm the.. More

  • CIA prisoners faced chilling interrogation methods

    The first detailed picture of how so-called high value detainees spent their days inside secret Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons overseas has emerged in dozens of previously classified documents released this week. And the picture is chilling. A detainee could be forced to stand, almost naked, handcuffed, going days without sleep, and if that.. More

  • The phenomenon of spinsterhood -II

    One of the main reasons for the spread of this phenomenon is that some parents oppressively prevent their daughters from marrying suitable young men, despite the fact that the Prophet,sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: "If a man whose religion and manners you approve of comes to you (proposing to your daughter), then give her in marriage.. More

  • Displaced Moro Muslims killed by Philippine army: Amnesty

    Dozens of displaced people by the government attacks on Moro region in southern Philippines have either been abducted or killed by the military on claim of suspected links with Muslim fighters, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The London-based rights watchdog said there were reports the military had labeled displaced communities on Mindanao.. More