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South America continues to attract large foreign mining conglomerates which have invested 30% of the world’s mining investments. Recently, Xstrata, the Anglo-Swiss mining giant confirmed that it will proceed with its $4.2 billion Las Bambas copper project in Peru. The company now has $5 billion (SFr4.1 billion) in projects in Peru which includes its $1.47 billion Antapaccay project. It also runs the Tintaya copper mine and has a stake in the expansive Antamina copper pit.

President John F. Kennedy said: “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”  

This quote embodies the true spirit of learning, in that we should be acquiring knowledge for the betterment of society and not the propagation of self.  In America, our current approach to education is in total contrast to this idea, as we have become a society that has yielded to promoting individual aspirations in the acquisition of knowledge.  This trend has served to weaken our society and will ultimately lead to our demise if not corrected.  To begin addressing any problem, one must recognize its root.  The core of this crisis lies in the prevalent ideas that govern our society namely Materialism and Capitalism.

The World Forum on Early Childhood Care and Education 2011 brought to beautiful Hawaii over 1000 delegates from around the world who shared a common interest in the welfare of children from birth to about age 8 years. Delegates representing many Muslim countries were quite visible. Attendants included university professors, government officials, preschool teachers and administrators.

The most interesting thing I learnt as a delegate attending the World Forum, was that in many parts of the world, schools operate successfully without a building. Persons who are convinced that children should be educated, regardless of their circumstance, find creative ways of developing schooling programs to meet the needs of children, their families and the community. While some school models showcased at the World Forum, held May 2 -6, were developed for affluent societies such as the schools of Reggio Emilia in Italy, a variety of innovative models were also developed for children who were orphans, homeless, living in war zones or extremely poor.

Fulfilling our commitment to serve humanity, the International Quranic Open University (IQOU), under the direction and guidance of His Eminence Vice Chancellor Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, will once again send forth competent students to provide assistance to our less fortunate brothers and sisters in Africa, a continent fraught with poverty, illiteracy, disease and high mortality rates.  Mali, one of the poorest countries in Africa, has been selected to serve as the launching place of IQOU’s newest project: Mali Health And Development Initiative (MHDI).

Hakima Fatimah Ash-Shakur of Aliville, Georgia, and Mahmoudou Sidibe and his family, from Montreal, Canada, will be departing for the West African country to begin work on the project in the coming months.

Islam has long been present in West Africa, with a long-standing Sufi tradition.  Due to this history, Mali represents a great base for IQOU to begin its work. Over the centuries, these Islamic spiritual orders were very instrumental in establishing true Islam.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for twin bombings in June at a crowded market in Peshawar, misleading the public in their claim, “We do not target civilians and mosques.” The latest extremist attack killed at least 35 people, wounded more than 100 others. 

The event was reminiscent of prior attacks involving the Taliban, including the assault on Sufis praying at the tomb of Hazrat Data Sahib in Lahore one year ago. The teen-aged suicide bomber whose vest failed to explode fully said he was told by his Taliban handlers, ‘These are the infidels. They are not doing what Muslims should do. Anyone who kills them will go to heaven,’  Mubarak Ahmed, a senior Dera Ghazi Khan police official handling the investigation, told the LA Times.

To head off the violent deaths that have been wracking Pakistan, it is important to gauge the areas where the poisonous venom of terrorism has infiltrated the country, as well as the source of the snake-like ideology infiltrated the country.  Necessary also, is tracking the source of the snake-like ideology .

Osama bin Laden has no one to blame but himself that he was a pawn of the intelligence community for decades, inevitably to be discarded, shot in the face, his body weighted down and cast to the bottom of the sea.

The parallel of bin Laden is mirrored in the annals of history, with the founder of Osama’s terrorist creed: Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab of Najd. It is necessary to comprehend bin Laden’s Wahhabite origins in bin Abdul Wahhab to truly understand what needs to be done to destroy the modern terrorist allegiance.

The Vice Chancellor of International Qur’anic Open University at Islamberg, New York, and chairman of the Abdul Qadir Gillani Institute of Sufic Sciences at Islamville, South Carolina scientifically demonstrated the miraculous powers of Holy Qur’an. He has proven the healing effects of Holy Qur’an on human and non human beings, as well as plants.

This is a rebuttal to extremist Wahhabis who deny the miraculous powers of Holy Qur’an and bring a lie against Almighty God. They also bring lies against our great Sheikh, who helped Saudi Arabia to solve their problems via Holy Quran. When the government of Saudi Arabia accepted the challenge of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to demonstrate the healing powers of Holy Qur’an as a means of alternative remedy for incurable mental and physical diseases, their scholars such as Sheikh Abu Sadir Maudoudi made excuses and refused to come forward and assist. Then our Sheikh, El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Gilani Qadri El Hashmi, came forward and accommodated their request, accepting the challenge of the W.H.O. The results: patients suffering from various previously incurable mental and physical diseases were healed. This is because of the miraculous power of the Holy Qur’an, the final Divine Revelation from Almighty God. It was in Saudi Arabia that our Sheikh and great Sufi Master was declared Imam of Sufic Science.

Those interested should read the books Qur’anic Psychiatry and the Ultimate Fraud of the Freudists, available at the bookstore in the village of Islamberg, New York. The following is an excerpt from Qur’anic Psychiatry, written by El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, which explains the scientific experiment that undoubtedly confirmed the healing powers of the Holy Qur’an; followed by the translation of an article by Hamaad Al Salmi containing a report on the success of Qur’anic Psychiatry by the Saudi Arabian Government in the Daily Alnadawa:

Just a couple of short weeks ago very few Americans knew the name Hosni Mubarak. Indeed Mr. Mubarak could have walked the streets with anonymity in my hometown of St. Louis, caught a movie, and went out to dinner and would not have been recognized.

Today that is no longer the case as coverage on Egypt is in the media 24/7. At first the coverage of the protests was almost exclusively positive. As Americans we pride ourselves on being a nation that stands for liberty and democratic values. People sympathized with the young people in Tahrir Square even if they were not sure why the people had taken to the streets.

Egyptian security forces recently arrested several people suspected of belonging to an Israeli spy network operating in Egypt, reportedly consisting of two fugitive Israeli officers and four Egyptian nationals.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva was officially recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Food Program (WFP), both commissions of the United Nations, as a ‘Champion’ for his aggressive leadership role in the effort to end hunger and improve nutrition in Brazil, and the developing world, and for re-emphasizing hunger as a critical global concern and U.N. priority.