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removed: Earthquake toll leaps to 73,000
Posted by: admin on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 10:07 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Pakistan says more than 73,000 people died in the 8 October quake that devastated its north and Kashmir.
Official figures a day earlier had put the death toll at about 57,000. No reason was given for the sudden jump.
The government has proceeded cautiously in its count so far. The new figures tally closer to local estimates of 80,000 which are several weeks old.
Relief commissioner Farooq Ahmed Khan said more than 69,000 were injured. He expected the casualty toll to rise.
Nearly 1,400 people died in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say.More...
Note: BBC World News
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removed: Earthquake toll leaps to 73,000
Posted by: admin on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 10:06 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Pakistan says more than 73,000 people died in the 8 October quake that devastated its north and Kashmir.
Official figures a day earlier had put the death toll at about 57,000. No reason was given for the sudden jump.
The government has proceeded cautiously in its count so far. The new figures tally closer to local estimates of 80,000 which are several weeks old.
Relief commissioner Farooq Ahmed Khan said more than 69,000 were injured. He expected the casualty toll to rise.
Nearly 1,400 people died in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say. More...
Note: Source: BBC World News
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Gujarat’s Islamic Movement
Posted by: admin on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:20 AM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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I’ve always dreamed of traveling to India. The Taj Mahal, Gandhi’s liberation struggle, traveling bare-back on elephants in lush green forests; this is what India has always meant for me. I never thought, however, that my first visit would be to a state most known for its periodic outbursts of communal violence: Gujarat.
Note: The articles posted on this page reflect solely the opinions of the authors.
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ICNA Condoles Pope's Death
Posted by: admin on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 12:07 AM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Press Release: In these sad moments of death of the leader of world's Catholics, Muslims of Canada share the feelings of grief with their Catholic bretheren.
Pope John Paul II has left a legacy of tireless efforts for promoting peace and justice around the world. He stood for weak and the oppressed and advanced the goal of peace and freedom.
Note: Dr. Khursheed Khan & Br. Fakhir Baig
Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)
(905) 257-2192
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Was war in Iraq justified?
Posted by: admin on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 - 10:56 AM EST
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The war against Iraq has created a very disturbing precedent which means it has justified pre-emptive warfare and from now on we will see which will be the next country that will invoke the potential of a danger from another state to declare a war without a UN Security Council resolution or without an imminent threat to their security as it was the case with the United States and Great Britain vis-à-vis Iraq.
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Gulf States May Be Next: British MP (ArabNews)
Posted by: aquddus on Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 08:34 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Roger Harrison, Arab News Staff
JEDDAH, 26 March 2003 — In an exclusive interview with Arab News yesterday, British Member of Parliament George Galloway said he had evidence that one motive for the war on Iraq is the eventual partition of the Mideast.
“Here in the Houses of Parliament there are people who have never set foot in an Arab country openly discussing the partition of Gulf states,” he said in a telephone interview from London.
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US, Israeli interest in weakening Europe
Posted by: aquddus on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 09:51 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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By Hassan Tahsin
An Israeli professor and military historian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem said in an interview published on Friday: “We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even to Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.... We have the capability to take the world down with us and I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.”
Note: from Arab News Opinion 17 February 2003
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Current Situation: ‘I was stripped of my shoelaces, dignity because of my nationality’
Posted by: admin on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 01:46 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Why is the US Government allowing its Immigration and Naturalisation Service to stomp all over America’s image as the land of liberty, freedom?
Ejaz Haider
On January 28, two agents from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) arrested me outside my office at the Brookings Institution.
In a matter of moments I was transformed from research scholar at a venerable Washington think tank to suspect, from a person with a name and a face to a ‘‘body,’’ a non-person.
Note: (LA Times-Washington Post)
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Current Situation: The Other Face of Fanaticism (NY Times- Feb 2, 2003)
Posted by: aquddus on Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 02:47 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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The Other Face of Fanaticism
By PANKAJ MISHRA
On the evening of Jan. 30, 1948, five months after the independence and partition of India, Mohandas Gandhi was walking to a prayer meeting on the grounds of his temporary home in New Delhi when he was shot three times in the chest and abdomen. Gandhi was then 78 and a forlorn figure. He had been unable to prevent the bloody creation of Pakistan as a separate homeland for Indian Muslims. The violent uprooting of millions of Hindus and Muslims across the hastily drawn borders of India and Pakistan had tainted the freedom from colonial rule that he had so arduously worked toward. The fasts he had undertaken in order to stop Hindus and Muslims from killing one another had weakened him, and when the bullets from an automatic pistol hit his frail body at point-blank range, he collapsed and died instantly. His assassin made no attempt to escape and, as he himself would later admit, even shouted for the police.
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Dawah: The Responsibilities of Muslims in the West
Posted by: aquddus on Friday, August 23, 2002 - 04:17 PM EST
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Speech Given by the late Sheikh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi
(Delivered in England several years ago, but applicable to all Muslims living in Muslim minority countries)
All praise is due to Almighty God, Allah, and may He, the Exalted, bestow His peace and blessings upon Prophet Muhammad, upon his good and pure family, as well as upon all of the noble companions, and upon those who follow them in righteousness until the Day of Judgement.
Dear Brothers in Islam,
Muslims shoulder a momentous responsibility in a country where Islam is not the dominant religion, where Western values and an un-Islamic way of life hold the upper hand and in which personal and partisan interests are top of the agenda and self-gratification is the goal of life. In such cases, Muslims, particularly when they are in the minority, face a difficult situation.
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