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Polygyny, or Multiple Girlfriends?
This article attempts to deal with a marital problem which is connected with conduct, namely, the deviation of the husband, or infidelity. We believe that, many a time, if a man asks to marry another woman or looks at other than his wife, he is actually in real need of a second marriage. What, then, is more honorable: marrying another woman or committing.. More -
Rape of women in DR Congo 'tops 1000 a day'
More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), making sexual violence against women 26 times more common than previously thought, a study has concluded. More than 400,000 women and girls between the ages of 15 to 49 were raped in the war-ravaged country in central Africa during a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007,.. More -
UN: Libyan refugee crisis worsening
The UN has said that almost 40,000 people have fled fighting in Libya's Western Mountains region in the past month. Thousands of ethnic Berbers from Libya fled into Tunisia after a brief hiatus in their exodus last week because of fighting between Gaddafi troops and opposition forces for control of a border crossing point. "This past weekend,.. More -
North Korea 'holding 200,000 prisoners'
Amnesty International says new satellite images and testimony from a former inmate show North Korea is holding around 200,000 people in its huge network of political prison camps where torture is rampant and conditions near slavery. The human rights group based in London released on Wednesday recent satellite photos which show four of six camps located.. More -
Arctic ice melt 'alarming'
Ice in Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting dramatically faster than was earlier projected and could raise global sea levels by as much as 1.6 meters by 2100, says a new study. The study released on Tuesday by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) said there is a "need for greater urgency" in fighting global warming.. More -
The story of Prophet Ibraaheem –II
Ibraheem Smashes the Idols When Ibraheem, may Allaah exalt his mention, recognised that his father and people would not give up worshipping their idols, he left his father’s house and abandoned his people and what they worshiped. He, may Allaah exalt his mention, decided to do something about their state of disbelief, but did not reveal it. He,.. More -
Deraa: A city under a dark siege
As darkness fell across it, Deraa was a city under siege. Tanks and troops control all roads in and out. Inside the city, shops are shuttered and nobody dare walk the once bustling market streets, today transformed into the kill zone of rooftop snipers. Trapped and terrified inside their homes, families are running low on food and drinking water,.. More -
'Guantanamo files': Dozens held were innocent
The United States released dozens of so-called "high-risk" detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and held more than 150 innocent men for years, according to new reports about a trove of leaked military documents. The more than 700 classified military files, part of a massive cache of secret documents leaked to the whistle-blowing.. More -
Inside Dar'aa
The only outside visitors the people of Daraa are allowed to receive these days are friends and family attending funerals. To access the city where Syria's uprising began, a local reporter simply had to tell the guards at the first checkpoint the truth: The husband of his wife's cousin had been killed while protesting for freedom and he was there to.. More -
Developing the Child's Sentiments - II
- Chastity and Sincerity Allah The Almighty mentioned in His Book that one of the characteristics of the faithful believers is their refraining from committing what is unlawful. He Says (what means): {And they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed.} [Quran 23:5-6].. More -
Developing the Child's Sentiments - I
1) Teach values to your children: The Islamic Sharee‘ah (Islamic legislation) came to direct people to the most upright way, and guide them to the straight path, which conveys them to the happiness of both the World and the Hereafter. The good manners mentioned and referred to by the Quran are beyond calculation. Allah The Almighty described.. More -
Under Gaddafi's eyes
Benghazi internal security headquarters, November 3, 1990. A fax arrives at 10:30 in the morning, addressed to the director from the head office in Tripoli. "We received information about some of the suspicious people," it begins. A list of names and paragraphs of information follow. One man is singled out for listening to religious tape.. More -
'CIA has no plans to suspend drone strikes in Pakistan'
According to a report in the Washington Post, US defense officials have claimed that there is no plan to suspend or restrict the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan, and that the agency has not been asked to pull any of its employees out of Pakistan. US and Pakistan’s relationship was the focus of a nearly four-hour meeting Monday at the.. More -
Alcohol drink blamed for oral cancer rise
Alcohol is largely to blame for an "alarming" rise in the rate of oral cancers among men and women in their forties, say experts. Numbers of cancers of the lip, mouth, tongue and throat in this age group have risen by 26% in the past decade. Alcohol consumption has doubled since the 1950s and is the most likely culprit alongside smoking,.. More -
French face veil ban comes into force
A controversial ban on face veils has come into force in France, meaning anyone wearing the Muslim Niqab or Burqa in public will face a fine of up to $216 and a citizenship course. A number of Muslims are urging women to defy the ban, including a property dealer who is offering to sell a building worth millions in order to fund his campaign. Rachid.. More
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