January 27, 2005 | 16 Dhu-l-Hijjah 1425 Hijriah
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The ClipboardBritain 'sliding into police state'
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, is transforming Britain into a police state, one of the country's former leading anti-terrorist police chiefs said yesterday. George Churchill-Coleman, who headed Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad as they worked to counter the IRA during their...
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The ClipboardHow Bush got Iraq war cost wrong
Combining these two figures -- the Pentagon's own admitted costs of the war and the generally accepted cost of occupation operations, the costofwar.com Web site has estimated the cost of the war for the fiscal year after it took place...
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A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah at-Tahrim ayah 12
Wa maryama ibnata 'imrana allati ahsanat farjaha fa nafakhna fihi min ruhina wa saddaqat bi kalimati rabbiha wa kutubihi wa kanat mina al-qanitina And Mary daughter of Imran, she who guarded her chastity. So We breathed into her Our...
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The ClipboardCivil Service System on Way Out at DHS
The Bush administration unveiled a new personnel system for the Department of Homeland Security yesterday that will dramatically change the way workers are paid, promoted, deployed and disciplined -- and soon the White House will ask Congress to grant all...
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The ClipboardUSAF playing cat and mouse game over Iran
The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran's ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to...
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The ClipboardInsult to injury
Most patients at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington have a lot on their minds: the war they just fought, the injuries they came home with, the future that lies ahead. The last thing a wounded soldier needs...
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veiled4allah
veiled4allahOrientalist garbage
I've seen several reports before that interrogators at Guantanamo are using women interrogators in various ways to gain psychological dominance over the detainees. For instance a common claim seems to be that Muslim men don't know how to deal with...
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veiled4allahOrganization of the Islamic Conference: Muslims must fight extremism
Al-Jazeera reports: Muslim nations and scholars must speak out against militant extremism or take some blame for the West's misunderstanding of Islam, the head of the world's largest body of Islamic nations has said. Current chairman of the Organisation of...
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veiled4allahlearning from the past, or not doing so
As a follow-up to the previous post about the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, here are two headlines I saw today, one inspiring and one depressing: Rwanda remembers the Holocaust 100 killed in Darfur air raid...
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veiled4allahthe Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and doing something about genocide
January 27 is the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz during World War Two. I had decided to do a search with Google to look for anything worthwhile that Muslims had written on the issue of the Holocaust. However,...
