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THERE is widespread opinion these days, among non-Muslims in particular, that Islam may not be a legitimate faith alongside Judaism and Christianity.  If so, should Islam, a universal faith sanctioned by Allah (SWT) through His final prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) undergo ...

THE Obama phenomenon has been likened to that of cults, celebrity groupies and Messiah worshipers. But what we’re actually witnessing is ObamaMania (as in tulip mania), the third and final bubble orchestrated and financed by the wonderful Wall Street folks ...

A US military judge dismissed the argument Friday that Guantanamo’s youngest detainee, Omar Khadr, was a child soldier when captured in Afghanistan and therefore in need of protection and not prosecution. US Army Colonel Peter Brownback’s ruling clears the way ...

FIERCE armed conflicts have erupted in Beirut between the supporters of the pro-western government and the Hezbollah-led opposition. The clashes broke out after people staged demonstrations in Beirut to protest Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's government over the ...

IT looks like we’re still using U.S. Navy warships to assassinate suspected terrorists in Somalia. The New York Times said, “at least four Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a Navy ship or submarine off the Somali coast had slammed into ...

ISLAMIC workers say an overnight U.S. airstrike blasted a remote area of central Somalia hours after armed civilians met there, but no one was hurt. The U.S. military denies the report. Two Islamic insurgents say they heard airplanes overnight ...

THE dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia has been revealed in a groundbreaking new Amnesty International report. First-hand testimony from scores of traumatized survivors of the conflict is included in the report, which ...

FIGHTING is escalating in Afghanistan as weather conditions improve for combat operations by both the US-NATO occupation force and the Afghan guerillas fighting to drive them from the country. The 2,300 troops of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which ...

IN its efforts to be more engaged in the Somali issue, the Secretary General of the OIC, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, is sending a delegation to the concerned neighboring countries Yemen and Djibouti to examine the Somali internal conflict and ways ...

A FRONT-page article in Monday’s New York Times provides some insight into the barbaric treatment of immigrants held in US custody. After obtaining a government list through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Times investigated the circumstances surrounding a ...

METZ, France - This ancient stronghold in eastern France which guards the traditional invasion route down the Mosel River valley is the world’s most heavily fortified city. Ringed by belts of powerful forts built by the French and Germans, and ...

BANGKOK: International relief agencies have started distributing essential items to victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) taking the lead by airlifting disaster relief supplies from across the Asian region. Chris ...

THE Bush administration lost no time in seeking to exploit the devastating tragedy in Burma (Myanmar). It has seized upon the cyclone that struck the country over the weekend, killed at least 20,000 and likely many more, to aggressively push ...

JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI ameer and MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has stressed upon Ummah's unity as the biggest need of the hour saying entire Ummah must get united against America and declare that Washington's so called war against terror is actually a ...

JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI has issued directives to party leaders and workers for observing Black Day on May 12 to condemn MQM terrorism on peaceful opposition workers and lawyers during the visit of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to Karachi last year and ...

IN an editorial published last Saturday, the Washington Post celebrated the killing of a man in Somalia who the Post said "deserved the label of 'evildoer.'" The man was killed when a U.S. Navy ship fired Tomahawk missiles at a ...

WALL Street, known variously as a barren wasteland for diversity or the last plantation in America, has defied courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for decades in its failure to hire blacks as stockbrokers. Now it’s marshalling its ...

RENOWNED political analyst Kevin Phillips argues successive administrations have imperiled the US economy by a combination of shortsighted policies and a trend against regulation. These include unparalleled credit card debts, the expansion of financial industries such as hedge funds, ballooning ...

MYANMAR cyclone death toll has soared above 22,000 with more than 41,000 others missing in the country's deadliest storm on record. The Myanmar government has appealed for international aid amid the rising death toll in the wake ...

General Petraeus: “President Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders promised to end their support for the special groups but the nefarious activities of the Quds Force have continued.” ...