www.counterpunch.org June 9, 2008 No, I Can't! Obama, Israel and AIPAC By URI AVNERY After months of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the confer... Read More

www.counterpunch.org June 11, 2008 Hopeless in Chicago Why I Can't Support Barack Obama By JOSHUA FRANK Four years ago, as the sentiment against George W. Bush's administration mounted, the entire left-wing spectrum hung on tight to the coattails of John Kerry, grasping for dear life. Critics called it the "Anybody but Bush" syndrome, but it should have been more aptly coined "Nobody but Kerry.? Virtually every progressive cause, from labor to the environment, ha... Read More

www.counterpunch.org June 10, 2008 Only Nader Has Pointed Out the Danger Deadly Fallout From Obama's Groveling Before Israel Lobby By JAMES G. ABOUREZK Like a Moslem undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the Pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay fealty to Israel and its Lobby. This year we were fortunate enough to witness ... Read More

www.counterpunch.org June 9, 2008 No, I Can't! Obama, Israel and AIPAC By URI AVNERY After months of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the confer... Read More

With media being the major source of info n people hardly having any time to read books, i was thinking that what better medium to propagate the stories n miracles mentioned in the Holy Quran than cartoons? I mean if small kids are encouraged to watch these type of cartoons, they'd be learnin more about our rich Islamic history and not watch the mindless soaps n cartoons which actually dont do any good. I mean shudnt v use better medium for propagation of Islam?

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www.independent.co.uk Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier By Sadie Gray Sunday, 27 April 2008 A 17-year-old Iraqi girl was murdered by her father in an honour killing after falling in love with a British soldier she met while working on an aid programme in Basra, it has been claimed. Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then given an unceremon... Read More

The Masjid is the fortress of faith; the guardian of virtues; the home of the pious; the meeting place of Muslims; the centre of consultation and mutual advice, and the first school from which the Muslim graduates. The Masjid provides relief and respite to the needy and the distressed. The Masjid symbolises Islamic monotheism and the unity of the Muslim Ummah. The Masjid has certain functions and etiquette which must be taken into consideration when attending it: a) Congregational Prayers b) Entering a... Read More

Sources: From my own notes taken attending lectures and islamic lessons. From Ref Book: Fortification of the Muslim through remembrance and supplication from the Qu'raan and Sunnah compiled and referenced by Saeed Ibn Ali Ibn Wahf Al-Qahtaani Those are practical and useful for the Converts and a refresher for every one. The Masjid's functions and etiquette: a) Congregational Prayers: Islam has made performing the prayer in congregation one of the most important duties of a Muslim. Abdullah... Read More

www.medicalnewstoday.com Boy Dies Of Dry Drowning After Leaving Pool And Walking Home 06 Jun 2008 Johnny Jackson, a 10-year-old American boy from South Carolina, died at home on Sunday from "dry drowning" more than an hour after going swimming and walking home with his mother. The sad event highlights a little known danger that parents and child carers should be aware of, that drowning can kill hours after being submersed in water. Johnny's mother, Cassandra Jacks... Read More

www.counterpunch.org June 4, 2008 Teenage Revolution Disenfranchised Youth By RALPH NADER You are sixteen. You can legally work, drive a motor vehicle and with parental consent get married in most states. Why can't you legally vote? Good question, and one that supporters for dropping the voting age from eighteen to sixteen will be asking politicians more and more. Much has been made of the youth vote this year amid evidence that more young people are turning out ... Read More

www.counterpunch.org June 5, 2008 Is This Change? Obama Woos AIPAC By JOHN WALSH I have tired of reading cyptic Obama endorsements, masquerading as attacks on ?illogical? women feminists. Clearly Hillary?s sins are legion, but Obama is making it clearer by the day that he is eager to follow in her bloody footsteps. And the Left? It is running after Obama in the ?hope? that he can be pressured ?like FDR? into responding to a ?real grass roots movement.? That simp... Read More

www.counterpunch.org June 5, 2008 Is This Change? Obama Woos AIPAC By JOHN WALSH I have tired of reading cyptic Obama endorsements, masquerading as attacks on ?illogical? women feminists. Clearly Hillary?s sins are legion, but Obama is making it clearer by the day that he is eager to follow in her bloody footsteps. And the Left? It is running after Obama in the ?hope? that he can be pressured ?like FDR? into responding to a ?real grass roots movement.? That simply does... Read More

www.counterpunch.org June 6, 2008 "This Law is a Bomb That May Kill Everyone" Cheney Enrages Iraqis Over Security Deal By GARY LEUPP Dick Cheney wants the Iraqi government installed by the U.S. occupation to sign a ?security pact? with Washington by the end of July. (The pact, including a status-of-forces agreement, would be signed by the U.S. president but not constitute a treaty requiring Congressional approval.) U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker has been feverishly st... Read More

Doubt is not a very agreeable state but certainity is a ridiculous one. The first devine was the first rogue who met the first fool Do well and you will have no need for ancestors Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it At 50, everyone has the face he deserves Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. Man is the only creature that consumes with... Read More

www.iht.com Israelis getting to know Obama and overcome suspicions Published: June 5, 2008 JERUSALEM: Israelis are welcoming Barack Obama's impassioned speech to Jewish activists in Washington. Obama told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Wednesday that the bond between Israel and the United States was "unbreakable" and that as president he would never compromise on Israel's security. Israeli newspapers put the speec... Read More

online.wsj.com In Obama's Successful Run, Timing Was Everything June 5, 2008; Page A16 Presidential candidates often prevail because they happen to arrive just as the country is ready to receive them. Sen. Barack Obama is such a candidate. Sen. Obama, who now has secured the support needed to be the Democratic nominee, is an unconventional presidential contender, almost a revolutionary one. He also is a candidate who simply never coul... Read More

news.bbc.co.uk Page last updated at 15:20 GMT, Thursday, 5 June 2008 16:20 UK Court annuls Turkish scarf reform Turkey's highest court has blocked government moves to allow college students to wear Muslim headscarves. The Constitutional Court said that a vote by parliament to ease a ban on scarves being worn on campuses violated the constitution's secular principles. The government argues that a headscarf ban stops many girls being educated. But much of... Read More

www.counterpunch.org Weekend Edition May 31 / June 1, 2008 "Ambitious, Idealistic Vision of Freedom" How McClellan Prettifies Bush By GARY LEUPP Former Bush spokesperson Scott McClellan?s accomplishing several things with his ?blockbuster? book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington?s Culture of Deception. He?s making a lot of easy money, as befits an opportunist of flexible morality who admittedly stuck with the Bush administration even as its amorali... Read More