Deck: Authorities Claim Songs Glorify Drug Culture, Incite Violence The Islamic Post Teaser: Lawmakers in Mexico are contemplating the enactment of laws which would make writing or performing songs or films that glorify criminals or criminal activity illegal. Along with…
The Islamic Post Teaser: In a small predominately Muslim village located 18 miles (30 km) from the city of Jos, Nigeria, lies the Kuru Karama village, at the point where Nigeria’s Muslim north and predominantly Christian south meet. According to…
The Islamic Post Teaser: Could Venezuela surpass Saudi Arabia as the top oil-producer in the world? Geologists at the earth science think-tank, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), have made just such an assessment. Scientists there claim that the Orinoco belt…
The Jerusalem Post reports that “while Israeli soldiers can’t fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can.” At the end of January, NATO members: Australia, Germany, Spain, France and Canada began “operating unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] produced in the…
As the debate rages in the West over the clothing Muslim women should or should not wear, two articles representing opposite sides of the discussion were published in late January. The London Times’ Dominic Lawson wrote a timely piece in…
The Islamic Post Teaser: The defacto regime led by Roberto Michelleti rejected numerous attempts by the international community to restore ‘democracy’ to the politically embroiled nation, by permitting deposed president Maneul Zalaya to finish out his term of office, which…
The Islamic Post Teaser: Four years ago, Cuba and Jamaica embarked on a mission to provide desperately needed routine and critical eye care for people of Jamaica, and the Caricom region in general. The Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Project has, since…
Deck: Truth Comes into Focus Years after Israeli Minister Announces Defaming Critics of Zionism as “Trick” Teaser: Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief (1996-99) Michael Scheuer recently discussed various security related issues as a guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal. The…
The Islamic Post Teaser: A recent Bloomberg report states the Gambian government has explicitly denied agreeing to accept a Jamaican-born cleric whom the Kenyan government attempted to deport, saying that any aircraft that brought him to the country would be…
The Islamic Post “Before anything else, the U.K. must answer to the international community about the kind of management it has employed in Afghanistan that has raised illicit drug production from a few hundred tons to around 9,000,” said Iran’s…
The Islamic Post Teaser: This is an urgent appeal for the sake of the American people and the future of this great nation to take a very careful look at the dangerous situation brewing in the Asian Region due to…
In a recent meeting with respected Qadri Sheikhs and Sunni Ulema, El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani Qadri, Vice Chancellor of the International Qur’anic Open University and Ghaddee Nasheen (spiritual head) of the Holy Shrine of Hazrat Mian Mir…
Lahore High Court Chief Justice, Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, demanded full disclosure from Pakistan’s Interior Ministry on the activities of Blackwater in the country, according to the Pakistan Daily Times and other sources. Barrister Zafarullah, Mr. Sharif’s attorney told the Times…
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) trade group -member nations: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Dominica- will be initiating the use of its own currency, the “sucre,” in a…
Mubarak, who’s country has often played the middle man in the Middle East crisis, acknowledged discussing an effort to bring together rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.
The Islamic Post Teaser: Representative Kucinich plans to submit two resolutions as soon as congress comes back in January to attempt to use the War Powers Act to withdraw all US troops and military contractors from Iraq and Afghanistan. “We’re…
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Aminatou Haidar has ended the month-long hunger strike initiated in protest to her forced exile from her home in Western Sahara. Ms. Haidar was flown by chartered jet from Lanzarote Airport in the Spanish Canary Islands…
As inhabitants of the Caribbean looked on at the economic crisis in the US and the rest of the developed world, some economists predicted that we were insulated from similar financial problems. The ordinary man on the street, however, felt…
(IP) –The historic 18th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark, the largest ever gathering of its kind, was attended by approximately 15,000 delegates: official representatives from 192 nations, political…
The recent vote to ban the building of minarets in the European nation of Switzerland has been received with shock and criticism from religious groups, human rights organizations, and governments worldwide. The referendum, which according to the BBC received 57.2%…
The staff and students of the International Qur’anic Open University are pleased to announce the expected departure to Japan of Ibrahim Smith and Ibrahim Caba in mid-month. Mr Smith and Mr Caba will be carrying on the tradition of the…
Earlier this month the Anchorage NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Multi-Cultural Youth Council held a meeting at the Rasmuson hall of the University of Alaska at Anchorage. The meeting ushered in the ACT-SO and Youth Council…
عاصم كاتب الموظفين لالاسلاميك بوست تم استقبال التصويت الذي جرى مؤخرا لمنع بناء المآذن في «سويسرا» بالصدمة والانتقاد من قبل المجموعات الدينية، ومنظمات حقوق الإنسان، وكذلك من قبل الحكومات حول العالم. كان استطلاع الرأي – والذي وفقا لما أعلنته وكالة…
The Islamic Post It is too soon to have forgotten about the day 39 year old Army Major and psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly killed 13 and wounded 31 others. During the commemoration of Veterans Day, just days after the…
The good news is that there would be benefits for the global community if the consensus is for not drilling the oil.
BANJUL –Dr Babagana Ahmadu, the country representative of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in The Gambia, has hailed President Jammeh’s efforts in agricultural, noting that his leadership is extraordinary and needs to be emulated by all African…
Women generally wear the niqab to protect themselves from being seen by men.
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The bargaining power of trade unions in the Caribbean is being destroyed. In Trinidad and Tobago, recent media reports indicate that the Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Public Transport Service Corporation attempted to decertify the two large…
CAIRO –Schools in Egypt have been in an on-again-off-again cycle since the beginning of the school year due to worries over the swine flu threat. Since Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif announced that schools would start the year a week…