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Businessman who lost 25 people in the Mangalore crash, including relatives, friends and business associates as heartbroken when he surveyed the wreckage yesterday

Mohammed Naseer (45), a Dubai-based businessman of Indian origin, is a man in mourning. He lost not one but 25 people he knew well in the Mangalore air crash. The dead include relatives, friends and his business partner Iqbal Siddiqui.

Naseer, who visited the crash site in Mangalore after the area was opened to the public on Monday afternoon, said, “I don’t know for whom to mourn.

Though Islamic tradition offers no exact equivalent for the term blasphemy, Muslims without proper knowledge who criticise the religion may fall into infidelity or apostasy.

Blasphemy, derived from the Greek term meaning “speaking evil”, is contemptuous or irreverent words or speech about God or things regarded as sacred.

Its synonyms, among others, are abuse, desecration, execration, profanation, repudiation, derogation, denunciation, heresy, insult, impiety, sacrilege, scurrility and reviling.

Islamic Investments: Shariah Principles Behind Them

– Equity Fund
– Conditions for Investment in Shares
– Ijarah Fund
– Commodity Fund
– Murabahah Fund
– Bai’-al-dain
– Mixed Fund

Clad in his usual attire of a colorful, striped robe, Afghan President Hamid Karazai appeared more like an emperor as he began his fourth day in Washington. Accompanying him on a somber visit to the Arlington National Cemetery were US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and top US (and NATO) commander in Afghanistan Stanley A. McChrystal – the very men responsible for the war and occupation of his own country.

Liberty? That is us. That is Islam. Long before other folks got wind of it or started to make loud noises about it.

Nine dead in blast immediate accused as always Muslims later developments establish otherwise any issue raised as to why all the while baseless nonsense was being fed to State by intelligence establishment as material establishing Muslims as terrorists ?

Here in the Holy Land, as Christians we should be in the forefront of non-violent action since one of our very basic commandments is not just to love our neighbor but love our enemy also. We know this directly from Christ who always forgave others no matter what. However, in a high conflict area like the West Bank, this is easier said than done.

On April 23, Arizona’s racist immigration bill became law. Called “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act,” it requires proof of legal entry or citizenship or face arrest, fines, jailing, and/or deportation.

The French parliament unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the full-face Islamic veil as an affront to the nation’s values, setting the stage for a law banning it.

Sadly, it has become a symbol of a cultural clash that should be resolved in better ways. It would be hard to blame Americans for being bewildered by stories now coming out of Europe.

There, lawmakers and top political leaders in places such as France and Belgium want to ban the veils and other body coverings worn by many Muslim women.

The ban of burqa runs smoothly in Europe, unlike any possible similar restriction on hijab.

The debate over a burqa (niqab) ban in Europe is only overshadowed by the debate over accusations of sexual abuse targeting some priests from the Catholic Church in Europe and other parts of the world. These debates soon replaced the financial crisis that took over the media scene in Europe.

New Delhi, May 12: UNION home minister P. Chidambaram equated Hindutva terrorism with crossborder jihadi extremism and said it was a key threat to national security.

“There are four types of terror threats that the country is facing. There is crossborder jihadi terrorism, insurgency in the North- East, Naxalism and terrorism sponsored by Hindu extremist groups,” Chidambaram said, addressing a book release event on Tuesday.

This was perhaps the first time the Union home minister raised the red flag on Hindutva terror groups.

Back in the 1960s Americans were deeply divided on matters of war and race.

While Reverend Martin Luther King Jr and religious leaders associated with his Southern Christian Leadership Conference led protests and committed acts of civil disobedience demanding civil rights, they were countered by white Christian preachers in the south who warned of the dangers of violating God’s will by ignoring the punishment God had meted out to the “sons of Ham”.

A picture is worth a thousand words, goes the adage. After special judge Tahaliyani sentenced Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab to death, the nation hailed the verdict as a fitting reply to terrorists who harbour evil designs against our country. Television, through the day, and newspapers, next morning, flashed pictures of people celebrating the sentence.

The discrimination Muslims face all across Europe is alarmingly on the rise, the US said in a damning report on human rights, warning of a deteriorating rights situation worldwide, mainly due to raging conflicts.
“We see discrimination against Muslims, including hate crimes, in Europe,” Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, said Thursday, March 11, announcing the release of the annual report on human rights.

I will never forget celebrating Independence Day in Israel as a child.

There is no such thing as gender segregation in Islam. That statement by Sheikh Ahmed al Ghamdi, published in the Saudi newspaper Okaz in December, sparked a controversy, not least because the sheikh is the head of Mecca’s Commission to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice, better known as the religious police.

Brooklyn, New York – Last Thursday, on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, I found myself thinking back to my first hiking trip to New York’s Bear Mountain. I was six years old. Having grown up in Brooklyn, New York, I thought the entire world was a sea of concrete buildings. But that trip changed my reality. I remember moss growing on rocks, small streams of water and fresh air.

When it came time to pray, my father, a convert to Islam, shared with me a saying of the Prophet Muhammad: “The earth is a mosque.”

The notion of the moral economy is intrinsic to all the major faiths, each of which has placed ethical boundaries on the behavior of those active in the market.

The ten commandments of the Jewish Torah or Christian Old Testament laid down an ethical boundary – or regulation – for work:

“for six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work – you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns”.

According to a recent Gallup poll, a majority of Americans still have little to no knowledge of Islam’s basic tenets. More disheartening, if not outright frightening, is that even given this avowed lack of knowledge, a sizeable percentage of U.S. citizens nonetheless maintain a negative perception of Muslims.

Dr. Asma Zehra, Executive Member Muslim Personal Law Board while strongly condemning in a press statement, alliances before Nikah between Muslim sportspersons, has said that personal matters like Nikah, Divorce and (marriage) proposals of Shoaib Malik, Sania Mirza and Ayesha Siddiqui has been topic of discussion in National and International media. She said that as per Islamic Shariah, engaged woman and man are strangers until Nikah.

Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, condemns fortune-tellers and praise genuine sciences. In The Holy Koran, Surah Al-Maida commands “Forbidden also is to use arrows seeking luck or decision; all that is disobedience of Allah and sin”, Quran 5:3. In this case, the critical question involves the application of astrology.

President Sarkozy must be having nightmares every night. Little did he know last June that his idea of banning the niqab in France, “the country of human rights”, would so lamentably backfire. Today, he is struggling to put an end to l’affaire. And it is of little satisfaction to him that Belgium should be the first country to legislate against the full veil.

A July 2008 Fact Sheet Series titled, “Behind the Bars: Palestinian Women in Israeli Prisons” was jointly prepared by the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Palestinian Counseling Center (PCC), and Mandela Institute. Along with background information, it covered Israel’s obligations under international law, prison conditions where they’re held, medical neglect, and their educational rights restricted or denied.

Relevant International Laws Protecting Prisoners and Civilians in Times of Conflict, Including Women

The Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam has laid stress on the rights of parents and duties of children, in the same way as he has stressed the rights of children and the duties of parents.

To be obedient to parents and to show kindness to them has been enjoined along with the Oneness and Worship of Allah, in the Holy Quraan, in such a manner that it appears that among human deeds, to obey parents and treat them with respect and kindness is next only to Divine Worship.

It’s been almost a month since Andhra Pradesh government moved to clear the city of all religious flags and buntings that were at the root of the recent communal riots which hit the state capital. But a tug-of-war has again started in the old city areas between Muslim and Hindu groups with green and saffron flags becoming the symbols of clout.