Watching his son sitting in his classroom decorated by cartoon characters, projects and artworks, Syed Shahzad, whose 13-year-old son Shayan attends Houston’s largest Islamic school, was very proud of the level his son reached in memorizing Qur`an and Islam’s true teachings, Houston Chronicle reported.
“I’m blessed with this kid,” said Syed, Shayan’s father, who moved to the US from Pakistan when he was 12.
“At his age, I didn’t know anything.
The story of Maryam Jameelah is an extraordinary but painfully confused true tale of a young American woman whose search for moral absolutes and emotional security led her to abandon a middle-class Jewish upbringing in suburban New York in the 1960s for a vastly different existence as an exile and convert to Islam in Pakistan, where she experienced both great intellectual productivity and deep personal conflict.
Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s largest economy, has the highest number of super-rich households worth more than $100 million in the world.
The Boston Consulting Group said that other Gulf countries such as Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates also ranked among the 10 nations with the highest density of ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNW).
The BCG study said that it measured Saudi Arabia UHNW per 100,000 households, at 18, while Kuwait had 8, Qatar had 6 and the UAE had 5.
The Gujarat government today said that Congress was trying to spread a “charter of lies” against Chief Minister Narendra Modi to tarnish his clean and transparent image.
Government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas said this while reacting to a petition filed by Congress leaders in Gujarat to President Pratibha Patil today, demanding a CBI probe into the alleged corruption of Rs one lakh crore during Modi’s tenure.
Arab countries’ focus on creating governments, economic revival, and human rights will likely remain a priority in the coming months [GALLO/GETTY]
President Barack Obama’s speech on the ongoing popular uprisings in the Middle East, followed by Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington, was intended to kick off a renewed effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Things are not turning out as planned.
Often people object to the term ‘feminism’ as being a western one. One maulana when invited to speak in a workshop of this title refused to come as he considered feminism un-Islamic. Is the use of this term objectionable from an Islamic viewpoint? Not at all.
Baba Ramdev has widely publicized what he wants to accomplish by going on the hunger strike that he’s set to begin on Saturday. He is demanding that the government nationalize the money that Indian nationals have unlawfully sent abroad as well as declare that such transfers are prosecutable as treason.
The introduction of advanced technology to make Haj and Umrah more comfortable for pilgrims will be the main topic at a forum looking at the annual pilgrimages.
The forum of Haj studies will be organized by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute of Haj Research at the Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah on June 12-17.
New Delhi: Admitting that illegal mining is “rampant”, the Mines Ministry has blamed corruption as one of the main reasons for the menace, which not only causes revenue loss to the exchequer but also promotes lawlessness.
“Though Section 23C of MMDR Act, 1957, empowers the state governments to frame rules to prevent illegal mining…make such rules for preventing illegal mining, transportation & storage of mineral, illegal mining is still rampant,” the Mines Ministry pointed out as areas of concern emerging during the 11th Plan.
The Srikrishna Committee appointed to look into the demand for a separate Telengana state had submitted a “secret” second report to the Union home ministry suggesting ways and means to ensure that there is no division of Andhra Pradesh.
The secret note has gone into minute details of what needs to be done to ensure that a Telengana state is not formed, although in its public report the Committee did not rule in favour of any one option.
Islam, as we know, provides a comprehensive system of life. As such, it lays down certain basic principles to guide us in all of our activities.
An essential requirement in all our affairs concerning two or more persons is that of Shura, or consultation. Shura must take place in all situations – in our homes and all other areas of our society. It was denied us by authoritarian regimes back home, and its deficiency has led to multiple problems in our society.
Top US officials’ gmail hit by Chinese phishing
Google sued over mobile ‘wallet’Google says hundreds of personal gmail accounts, including those of some senior US government officials and military personnel, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing originating from China.
The account hijackings were a result of stolen passwords, likely by malware installed on victims’ computers or through victims’ responses to e-mails from malicious hackers posing as trusted sources, or what is known as phishing.
Gmail’s security systems themselves were not compromised, Google said.
The torture and murder of leading Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad throws into sharp relief an ironic twist in the politics of the Muslim world. As the populations of one Middle Eastern country after the other revolt against authoritarianism in favour of democracy, Pakistan is headed the other way. Shahzad’s death follows two other high-profile murders. Earlier, the minister for minority affairs Shahbaz Bhatti was apparently slain for supporting Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman jailed for blasphemy. Also killed was the governor of the Punjab, Salman Taseer, by his own bodyguard.
The involvement of two personalities who invoke the spiritual and the divine in the India Against Corruption (IAC) coalition was seen by many within as something that provided a moral compass to the movement. Indeed, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Jain gurus, too, figure as founder-members on the IAC’s website but they remain more or less silent.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday launched a “national dialogue” while freeing hundreds of political prisoners in an amnesty opposition groups and Washington say does not go far enough.
State television said Assad had set up a committee and charged it with “formulating general principles of dialogue that will open the way for the creation of an appropriate climate in which the different elements can express themselves and present their proposals.”
The government’s most recent targets are women.
“They took me from my work,” one woman says. “And from the beginning, they slapped me on my face, on my head, shoulder.”
The woman agreed to be recorded in an interview with NPR only if she could whisper, in English, so that authorities wouldn’t recognize her voice.
She had been detained, beaten, then let go. When she met with NPR, she was limping from pain.
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When the Wakf (Amendment) Bill, 2010, was passed in the Lok Sabha a year ago, everyone thought that the amendment was a progressive step that would help improve and streamline the administration of wakf properties across the country. However, a year down the line, when the bill is awaiting approval in the Rajya Sabha, many Muslim organisations have begun to express their scepticism over it. Right from the definition of wakf properties to the powers of the proposed wakf tribunals, many provisions of the bill are now being questioned.
about the fears of Coptic Christians makes clear today, the increasing influence of Islamists in Egypt in the wake of the collapse of the Mubarak regime calls into question the security of non-Muslim minorities. Some will simply ascribe the tragedy that seems to be unfolding to the perils of increasing democracy in societies where there is no tradition of either genuine religious freedom or the rule of law. That may be true, but Egypt’s problem runs deeper than merely blowback from the Arab Spring.
Saudi women have defied the ban by launching a campaign on Facebook and Twitter under the motto ‘I will drive, starting June l7’.
Recently the authorities arrested a woman who did indeed challenge the ban in a major street of Khobar. She was released a few hours later, but her brother had to sign a statement, promising the misdemeanour would not be repeated.
While the campaign is drawing massive support from many women and a number of men, there is now a counter campaign, launched by men who threaten to use their iqal (headgear) and whip women who drive openly.
New Delhi, May 31: Former President Giani Zail Singh’s role during his tenure as Punjab chief minister has been criticised as also that of Sanjay Gandhi for the Punjab crisis of the 80s in a book on Congress.
The fifth volume of the series ‘A Centenary History of the Indian National Congress’ makes critical observations on “dirty politics” in the name of religion in Punjab that it concluded was one of the factors for terrorism and the Khalistan agitation in Punjab.
In this Walk the Talk with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV’s 24/7 yoga guru Baba Ramdev talks about his crusade against corruption, getting black money back and capital punishment for corrupt officials.
My guest today is the rockstar of yoga, Baba Ramdev. Only you could have got me up this early. You wake up very early—3 o’clock in the morning?
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In a novel dig at the Congress-led central government, state BJP’s ‘Utsav Prakoshth’ (festivities cell) today staged a wedding of ‘corruption’ and ‘inflation’.
The “baratis” were gifted with replicas of movable and immovable property documents, fix deposits receipts from ‘Swiss bank’, and bags of ‘black money’.
Some hundred ‘guests’ were dressed up to look like various leaders, including the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The Palestinian security officer at the Rafah border was overly polite. He wore a black uniform and walked around self-assuredly, as he instructed weary travelers on their next moves before being allowed back into Gaza. On the other side of the border, in Egypt, there was much anxiety, fear and anticipation.