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  • Poverty 'widespread' in E Jerusalem

    A majority of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, including three out of four children, live in poverty, an Israeli rights group has said. In a report released on Monday, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) accused Israel of neglect and discrimination in its policies. Despite the conditions, only 10 per cent of East Jerusalem's 300,000 Palestinian.. More

  • Massacres expose another reason to end Iraq and Afghanistan wars

    The recent exposés from Iraq and Afghanistan--with their shocking images, appalling laughter, and video-game ethos--would have shocked the conscience of the world in an earlier era. After all, when what happened at My Lai was exposed during the Vietnam War, it shocked millions of people who hadn't been thinking very much about the war. My Lai.. More

  • Reckless private security companies anger Afghans

    Private Afghan security guards protecting NATO supply convoys in southern Kandahar province regularly fire wildly into villages they pass, U.S. and Afghan officials say. The guards shoot into the villages to intimidate any potential fighters, the officials say, but also cause the kind of civilian casualties. "Especially as they go through the.. More

  • Five minutes in the green can improve mental health

    Just five minutes of exercise a day in the great outdoors can improve mental health, according to a study released on Saturday, and policymakers should encourage more people to spend time in parks and gardens. Researchers from the University of Essex found that as little as five minutes of a "green activity" such as walking, gardening, cycling.. More

  • Report details torture at secret Baghdad prison

    The torture of Iraqi detainees at a secret prison in Baghdad was far more systematic and brutal than initially reported, Human Rights Watch reported on Tuesday. The existence of the prison, which housed mostly Sunni Arab prisoners, has created a political furor in Iraq, prompted government denials and fanned sectarian tensions. “Abu Ghraib.. More

  • North Caucasus "at risk" of mass civilian killings by Russia

    A military strike by Russia against fighters in its North Caucasus region is much more likely this year than last and would threaten the lives of scores of civilians, a report showed on Tuesday. Conflict has escalated in the past year in Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. The attacks that killed 40 on the Moscow metro last month turned the global.. More

  • Pakistani military holding thousands of detainees

    Pakistani officials and human rights advocates are expressing concern today about the large number of detainees being held in extralegal detention by Pakistan’s military in the tribal areas. According to reports, most of the thousands of detainees have been held for nearly a year and have been given no access to lawyers or family. They have not.. More

  • Hundreds of Iraqis "tortured" in newly revealed secret prison

    A secret prison has reportedly been discovered in Iraq under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured, a report said. The prison emerged as Human rights officials learned of the facility in March from family members searching for missing relatives. "Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared.. More

  • Somalis caught in the crossfire

    In a refugee camp in northern Kenya, a 14-year-old Somali boy recounts the moment that his entire family were killed in Mogadishu. "When I came home from the duksi [Qur'anic school] I found our house had been hit," he says. "My mother and father were killed. I think my four brothers were killed as well - I saw pieces of their hands.. More

  • Manhood in the Quran and the Sunnah - II

    Qualified righteous men are the backbone of missions, the spirit for progress and the focal point of reformation. There can be countless factories of weapons and ammunition, but if there are no men to use the weapons being produced, there will be no ability to fight. The finest educational curricula can exist, but it takes real men to implement and.. More

  • Manhood in the Quran and the Sunnah - I

    Manhood is a quality that is pursued by people of high ambitions and serious thinking men. It is a basic quality that is needed by every man, for when men lose the qualities of manhood, they cease to be real men. Manhood is deeply implanted in a person through strong belief, nurtured by sound upbringing and developed by good example. A real man is one.. More

  • Mexicans haunted by church sexual abuse

    Alberto Athie, a former Mexican priest, took the difficult decision to leave the Roman Catholic Church following his investigations into a high-profile pedophile priest. He holds up the letter he wrote 13 years ago to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. It details senior Mexican priest Marcial Maciel's sexual abuse of young boys. As.. More

  • The 'Obama doctrine': kill, don't detain

    George Bush left a big problem in the shape of Guantánamo. The solution? Don't capture 'bad guys', assassinate by drone. In 2001, Charles Krauthammer first coined the phrase "Bush Doctrine", which would later become associated most significantly with the legal anomaly known as pre-emptive strike. Understanding the doctrine with hindsight.. More

  • The Expedition of Dhat-ur-Riqaa'

    The names of some of the battles that occurred during the lifetime of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and his Companions, may Allaah be pleased with them, were derived from the extent of suffering and hardship experienced by them for the sake of Da‘wah (calling to Islam) and for the sake of spreading it. Here, we will discuss.. More

  • Iraq: Seven years of occupation

    By Raed Jarrar On April 9, 2003, exactly seven years ago, Baghdad fell under the US-led occupation. Baghdad did not fall in 21 days, though; it fell after 13 years of wars, bombings and economic sanctions. Millions of Iraqis, including myself, watched our country die slowly before our eyes in those 13 years. So, when the invasion started in March.. More