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THE NIQAB DEBATE - PART 2 How Should Muslims Respond to the Attack on the Niqab?

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Part 1 of this article discussed how Muslims should not argue against niqab bans or for the right to practice any part of our deen on the basis of ‘personal freedom' or ‘human rights' which contradict the Islamic texts. This is because such values have their origins from the secular way of life and liberal ideals that believe that God and religion should have no say in the organization of…
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News and Comment The High Cost of Peace and Friendship with the Crusaders

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News: In the beginning of November 2013, TTP leader Hakimullah Mahsood was targeted by a drone attack. It was particularly on the day that Pakistani government announced an official mission towards Northern Waziristan to conduct peace negotiations with TTP. Before that, Lateefullah Mahsood, who was Hakimullah Mahsood's driver and afterwards appointed as his deputy, came to Afghanistan as per Afghan government's request in order to play mediator role between Afghan…
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Why Muslims Should NOT Use "Personal Freedom" or "Human Rights" to Argue Against Niqab Bans - PART 1 -

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As the attack on the niqab by politicians and the media intensifies in Britain, Canada, and other Western secular states, Muslims have once again felt pressure to defend yet another of their Islamic practices and to argue against its ban. There is no doubt that it is not a piece of cloth that is on trial here but the latest face of the attack on Islamic values and beliefs. It…
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Drone Attacks: Nawaz Cowers before Obama and Returns Empty Handed

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On October 25, 2013 Pakistan's UN ambassador condemned US drone strikes, and declared that it was a gross violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and international law. He said, "Killing unarmed, innocent civilians is a clear breach of international law. We call for the immediate cessation of drone attacks inside the territorial borders of Pakistan." Earlier in the week, Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif pleaded at the White House with US President…
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News & Comment Who is to protect Islam when it is attacked left, right and centre?

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News: Within the last two weeks of October 2013, a number of reports and various discussions had been raised in the Malaysian press, in particular the alternative media sites and the various social media sites on issues related to the practices and spirit of Islam. The issues concern the use of the word ‘ALLAH' by non-Muslims, the submission of a report by the Coalition of Malaysian NGOs (COMANGO) in the…
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News & Comment Loneliness - A Killer in an Increasingly Busy World

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News: Joyce Carol Vincent's door was broken down in order to serve her an eviction notice. Instead, they found her corpse slumped on the sofa, with the light from the TV still flickering. By 2006, she had lain there for almost three years. Letters flooded the hallway and the presents she had just wrapped, for Christmas 2003, laid around her skeleton. It is not clear how she died, but it…
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Rape Epidemics are the Natural Product of the Liberal Sexualisation of Societies

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The savage gang-rape of a five year old girl in Lahore this September whose body was then dumped outside a hospital, horrified Pakistan and the world. This brutal attack was then followed within a week by two more appalling rapes that hit the headlines - that of a young girl in Faisalabad and a college girl in Toba Tek Singh. In recent years, rapes of children and women in Pakistan…
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News & Comment Ministry of Religious Affairs: 212,000 Divorce Every Year

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News: Jakarta: Ministry of Religious Affairs recorded 212,000 divorce cases have occurred every year in Indonesia. This number increased from 10 years earlier."The numbers are much increased from 10 years ago, in which the amount of the divorce rate is only around 50,000 per year," said Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Dr. Nasaruddin Umar in Jakarta, Saturday (09/14/2013). Nasaruddin deeply concerned about the high divorce rate. Moreover, nearly 80 percent…
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