Jamiatul Ulama KZN Council of Muslim Theologians
By ARAB NEWS Published: Feb 15, 2011 23:48 Updated: Feb 16, 2011 01:18 MANAMA: Thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated against the government after a second protester died in clashes with police on Tuesday. The protests in a country, which saw deadly unrest in the 1990s, prompted Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone …
Read More »800 buildings in Jeddah on verge of collapse
By MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS Published: Feb 16, 2011 00:35 Updated: Feb 16, 2011 01:35 JEDDAH: There are about 8,000 buildings in Jeddah on the verge of collapse, according to informed sources. This opens the door wide to accusations of our historic legacy being neglected, they say. Jeddah lost …
Read More »Gilad Atzmon: Cairo & Jerusalem
Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 5:21PM Gilad Atzmon “It was the moral force of non-violence” stated President Obama in his first comment on the revolution in Egypt. Yet it is far from being clear who was the Egyptian Mandela, Gandhi, or Martin Luther King? I guess that in Cairo …
Read More »Australia evacuates coastal cities in path of cyclone
By ROB TAYLOR | REUTERS Published: Feb 2, 2011 01:07 Updated: Feb 2, 2011 01:54 CANBERRA: Australia evacuated thousands of people from its northeast coast on Tuesday as a cyclone rivaling Hurricane Katrina bore down on tourism towns and rural communities, with officials saying it could even threaten areas deep …
Read More »Mubarak rejects protesters’ demand to step down
By SARAH EL DEEB AND HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | AP Published: Feb 2, 2011 00:14 Updated: Feb 2, 2011 02:02 CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak announced Tuesday he will not run for a new term in September elections but rejected protesters’ demands he step down immediately and leave the country, vowing to …
Read More »Egypt’s opposition calls for 1 million on streets
By MAGGIE MICHAEL AND HAMZA HENDAWI | AP Published: Jan 31, 2011 22:23 Updated: Feb 1, 2011 06:14 CAIRO: A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo’s streets Tuesday to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak, the clearest sign yet that a unified …
Read More »Egypt’s day of reckoning
Robert Fisk Mubarak regime may not survive new protests as flames of anger spread through Middle East Independent Friday, 28 January 2011 Already there have been signs that those tired of Mubarak’s corrupt and undemocratic rule have been trying to persuade the ill-paid policemen patrolling Cairo to join them. …
Read More »Tunisia, Egypt; Is the Arab world moving towards independence?
For the first time in recent history, the Arab masses in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere have turned their anger towards the decadent regimes, rather than the US; they are not burning the US flags but government buildings. The regime changes may signify gaining real independence and breaking free …
Read More »Egypt protests: ‘We ran a gauntlet of officers beating us with sticks’
Jack Shenker, the Guardian’s reporter in Cairo, was beaten and arrested alongside protesters in the capital last night. He made this remarkable recording while locked in the back of a security forces truck next to dozens of protesters. Jack Shenker Cairo guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 January 2011 14.23 GMT At one …
Read More »Muslim growth outpaces non-Muslims’
2011-01-27 13:55 Washington – The world’s Muslim population will grow twice as fast as the non-Muslim population in the next 20 years, when Muslims are expected to make up more than a quarter of the global population, a study published on Thursday predicts. Using fertility, mortality and migration rates, researchers …
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