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  • Is it Haram/Not Allowed to read, understand follow Islam by the Holy Qur'an in a language other than Arabic?
    This is the debate that I have been involved in numerous times over the years. I have asked many Imams about this issue and the response is normally the same. The last response I had was that "you get 10 times the reward" for reading it in Arabic without any supporting evidence from Qur'an or authentic hadith. Some people will not even accept any religious debate about Islam when it is done in English, yet the same people will lear...
  • Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire
    Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire Last Updated: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 12:06 PM ET Comments340...
  • War in Gaza draws U.S. viewers in droves to watch Al-Jazeera English
    War in Gaza draws U.S. viewers in droves to watch Al-Jazeera English Published: Saturday, January 24, 2009 | 5:08 PM ET Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine DOHA, Qatar - American viewership of Al-Jazeera English rose dramatically during the Israel-Hamas war, partly because the chan...
  • Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now
    Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now Published: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 8:03 PM ET Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops began to withdraw from Gaza Sunday after their government and Hamas militants declared an end...
  • Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers
    Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers Last Updated: Friday, July 11, 2008 | 7:38 PM ET Comments23...
  • 'My kidnappers were not criminals'
    'My kidnappers were not criminals' by Monday 26 December 2005 7:36 PM GMT Susanne Osthoff said that her captors wanted humanitarian aid A former German hostage who spent 24 days in the hands of unknown captors in Iraq has said her kidnappers are not criminals and have demanded humanitarian aid for Sunni Arab regions. Speaking to Aljazeera satellite channel, Susanne Osthoff said her captors told her not to be afraid as her kidnapping was ...
  • Two suicide attacks in Mideast leave 8 dead
    Two suicide attacks in Mideast leave 8 dead Last Updated Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:47:33 EST CBC News Separate suicide bomb attacks killed four people each in the West Bank and Baghdad and wounded many more. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a West Bank checkpoint after being prevented from reaching Israel, according to Israeli security authorities. An Israeli guard and four Palestinians were killed. Several more were wounded. ...
  • Rare Islamic texts to go online
    Rare Islamic texts to go online by Monday 12 December 2005 2:48 AM GMT Handwritten Islamic documents are about to go online A treasure trove of information about life in the early Islamic world is to go online, enabling Muslims, scholars and the merely curious to peer into a window on the faith's rich history. Numbering more than 10,000 texts, Princeton University's collection of handwritten Islamic documents, books and letters is the la...
  • Sons of beaches: a land girt by bigots
    Sons of beaches: a land girt by bigots * * Email * Print * Normal font * Large font By Tony Parkinson December 13, 2005 Page 1 of 2 AdvertisementAdvertisement BEFORE we get into the blame game over what went so awfully wrong at Cronulla, it is important to recognise how much Australians stand to lose collectively. In the iconography of this country, it is the beach cul...
  • Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman
    Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman by Asim Khan & Mahfoud El Gartit Wednesday 26 October 2005 9:06 AM GMT Sami al-Hajj says he has suffered physical and sexual abuse Sami Muhy al-Din al-Hajj, a Sudanese national, was arrested by the US military while working for Aljazeera during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and detained in Guantanamo for four years without trial. Aljazeera.net spoke to al-Hajj's lawyer, Clive Stafford-Sm...
  • Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq
    http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/24/148212 Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3 Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD Ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey talks about his time in Iraq where he admitted the U.S. treatment of Iraqi civilians is fueling the Iraqi resistance. ...
  • Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed in book
    http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-06-03T184426Z_01_N03269274_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-TERRORISM-DC.XML Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed in book Fri Jun 3, 2005 2:44 PM ET By Patricia Wilson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with Islamic fundamentalism, according to the author of a n...
  • Dubai Norway (Marte Deborah Dalelv) Rape Case Truth/Update
    I was shocked and outraged when I first heard of this case on the news because it was a story done so well that seemed to be a clear case of the victim being arrested for no reason. But then Iasked myself some questions and wondered if there could be more to the story? Why would the UAE and Dubai who admittedly depend on foreign investment and Western tourism which they have worked so hard to attract do this? Some less than reputable groups would gleam that "see...
  • Response to anti-Islamic and Islamophobic comments
    FreeCanada says: The problem about this is that Islam isn't a religion it is a culture and won't rest, till Shariah law is law of the land and those not abiding by ALLAH are prisioned and stoned. ================================ I am a Chinese Muslim who was born in Canada and think I can offer a unique perspective and information. I take exception with your comments, because it generalizes all Muslims as thinking that way, when that is not the case. For...

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