Gunmen shoot Sri Lankan Cricketers in Pakistan!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7920260.stm
im shocked, angry, confused.....
pls discuss....
Asalamualykum brothers and sisters,
A humble request to you all please. A lady's passed away in our neighbourhood and i was just wondering if you could please make dua for her? She was really nice and she's left 4 young kids. She died from cancer...subhana' Allah. It's been ages since i've heard of someone's death (someone i know) and it's come as a real shock to me because she was soo full of life when i last saw her. Of course death can come to us all regardless of what age you are but we don't think like that...To Allah s.w.a we shall all return.
Jazahka' Allah for reading everyone. May Allah s.w.a make it easy for us in the herafter
Jazahka Allah
w/saalaam
Designer baby row over US clinic
A US clinic has sparked controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye and hair colour of their offspring.
The LA Fertility Institutes run by Dr Jeff Steinberg, a pioneer of IVF in the 1970s, expects a trait-selected baby to be born next year.
His clinic also offers sex selection...
Read more @ BBC News
Reminds me of a movie called "Gattaca".
Scaremongers warn that 'effectiveness research' threatens the lives of Americans.
Thank God doctors in the United States are free to treat patients as they deem best, free from interference by faceless bureaucrats. If bureaucrats were in charge, physicians might have to prescribe the newest hypertension drugs as a first-line therapy, do MRIs to diagnose back pain and give regular Pap tests to women who have had total hysterectomies. Oh, wait—they do...
read more @ Newsweek
Is it scary that doctors may ignore science?
Islamic banks 'better in crisis'
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on Islamic banks to take a leadership role in the global economy, amid the financial crisis.
He was speaking at the opening of the World Islamic Economic Forum in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
The forum has brought together political and business leaders from 38 countries to discuss the global economic slowdown.
They will also discuss ways to achieve energy and food security.
Mr Yudhoyono said it was time for Islamic banks to do some missionary work in the West.
Islamic financial institutions, he said, had not been hit as hard as their western counterparts because they did not invest in toxic assets.
An Evening of Dhikr & Salutation to the Prophet(SAW)
Celebrating the auspicious occassion of Eid Milad Nabi
Date : Friday 6th March 2009
Time : 8pm to 10pm
Venue : Darul Ehsan, 1st Floor, 21 - 23 Broughton Street, (off Cheetham Hill Road), Manchester M8 8LZ
Programme is in English, Food will be served
All Brothers are Invited
for further detail see
Salaams,
I have just done some light online reading and a few things I have read do not sit well by me, so just asking for explanations, etc from proper sources instead of random internet essays.
Specifically more about these two paragraphs from here (a shia article quoting sunni sources):
US suspect applied to join police
A man suspected of robbing a California store has landed in custody after turning up to take a police entrance examination in the same town.
Chula Vista police realised Romeo Montillano was a suspect in the December robbery when he signed up for a police test two months later.
Detectives doubted he would show up after he phoned in from Las Vegas to say he was having car problems.
But he arrived on time, by bus, only to be arrested by astonished officers.
Detectives were waiting at the registration table when he walked up and signed himself in as Romeo Ogilve Montillano, Chula Vista police spokesman Bernard Gonzales was quoted as saying by the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Kosovo trial clears Serbia leader
Serbian ex-President Milan Milutinovic has been acquitted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Kosovo by a UN war crimes tribunal.
Five former top Serbian officials were found guilty on some or all the charges relating to the 1990s conflict. Their sentences range from 15 to 22 years.
It was the court's first ruling on alleged crimes committed by Serbian forces in the breakaway region.
Mr Milutinovic was seen largely as a figurehead president during that time.
The court found that the 66-year-old, who led Serbia from December 1997 to December 2002, had no direct control over the Yugoslav army. His release from custody was ordered...
Street protests erupt in Pakistan after opposition leaders barred from office
Opposition supporters in Pakistan torched cars and stoned buildings today as thousands joined in a growing protest over the barring of two of their leaders from elected office.
Yesterday's supreme court ruling that Nawaz Sharif, a former prime minister, could not stand for parliament due to an old criminal conviction, and its disqualification of his brother, Shahbaz Sharif, who was head of the provincial government in Punjab, prompted hundreds of the prime minister's supporters to gather in Rawalpindi chanting slogans against the government.
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