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Rabbi al-Awwal Mubarak!

published by Noor on 26 February, 2009 - 02:13

[center][b]Assalaamu Alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh![/b]

[b][color=indigo]As salaatu was salaamu 'alayk Ya Sayyidi Ya RasoolAllah, Wa Ala Aalika Wa Ashabika Ya Sayyidi Ya HabeebAllah! [/b][/color]

[color=green]*~ Allaahumma Salli 'ala Sayyedina wa Mowlana Muhammadin-nin-Nabiyyil Ummi wa 'ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Barik wa Salim ~*[/color]

[size=24][color=green][b]Rabbi al-Awwal Mubarak![/b][/color][/size]

[color=red]“Say: Because of the (fadl) Blessings of Allah and His (rahma) Mercy you should celebrate (with happiness and pleasure). That is better than what (wealth) they amass.”[/color]
Surah Yunus, (10:58)
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'Most unfortunate names' revealed

published by You on 25 February, 2009 - 11:08

'Most unfortunate names' revealed

What do you call some of the most unlucky people in Britain?

Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still.

It sounds like a bad joke, but a study has revealed that there really are unfortunate people with those names in the UK.

Joining them on the list are Terry Bull, Paige Turner, Mary Christmas and Anna Sasin.

And just imagine having to introduce yourself to a crowd as Doug Hole or Hazel Nutt...

Read more @ BBC News

Texting death crash peer jailed

published by You on 25 February, 2009 - 11:04

Texting death crash peer jailed

A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes being he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks.

Lord Ahmed was driving his Jaguar when he collided with a car stopped in the outside lane of the motorway on Christmas Day 2007.

The driver of the vehicle, Martyn Gombar, 28, was killed.

Lord Ahmed, 51, of Rotherham, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court. He had admitted driving dangerously.

Mr Gombar was Slovakian but was living in Leigh, Greater Manchester, at the time of his death.

BBC News

71 Year old Pensioner fined for skating.

published by You on 24 February, 2009 - 22:26

A man has been found guilty of dangerous skating after he was filmed rollerblading down the main street of Southport.

Geoff Dornan, 71, told reporters his health had suffered since his skates were confiscated.

A row erupted between Mr Dornan and a local resident who claimed he was nearly knocked over by the skating pensioner.

Links with video:

One and two.

I think the complainant was plain jealous. I would be - I can't skate and I am slightly younger!

Al-Qaeda founder launches fierce attack on Osama bin Laden

published by You on 24 February, 2009 - 18:12

Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 1990s.

But in a book written from inside an Egyptian prison, he has launched a frontal attack on al-Qaeda's ideology and the personal failings of bin Laden and particularly his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Twenty years ago, Dr Fadl became al-Qaeda's intellectual figurehead with a crucial book setting out the rationale for global jihad against the West.

Jack Straw vetoes Iraq minutes release

published by You on 24 February, 2009 - 17:44

Straw vetoes Iraq minutes release

Justice Secretary Jack Straw has vetoed the publication of minutes of key Cabinet meetings held in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003.

He said he would use a clause in the Freedom of Information Act to block the release of details of meetings in which the war's legality was discussed.

Releasing the papers would do "serious damage" to Cabinet government, he said, and outweighed public interest needs...

Read more @ BBC News

Too right it would - it would show the cabinet government of being morally and ethically bankrupt.

Despair - the burden of the good-natured person?

published by Ya'qub on 24 February, 2009 - 16:30

A thought-provoking idea:

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."
- Graham Greene

Hmmm... anyone have any thoughts?

5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don't Work)

published by You on 24 February, 2009 - 00:55

Between the hybrids, the reusable canvas shopping bags and cloth diapers, everybody's doing their little bit to save the world. Entire industries have sprang up to cater to us socially-responsible types who want to leave behind a better world for the robots to inherit once they take over.

But, most of the time, making you feel better is about all it does. For instance...

#5. Buying Organically Grown Food

Why People Do It:

Seems like a no-brainer. Organic food eliminates the use of chemical fertilizers, hormones and pesticides. Getting rid of all those nasty chemicals means healthier foods and less contamination to the planet.

When terrorism isn’t newsworthy

published by You on 23 February, 2009 - 19:26

Imagine if a Scottish Muslim had pled guilty to threatening to blow up Glasgow Cathedral and behead one Christian a week until all British troops were pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

There would be outrage, right? It would be splashed over the front page of every newspaper in the land. It would be the top of all news bulletins.

There would be volumes written on what motivated him, his family background and his beliefs. There would be a rich stream of analysis from a variety of positions. Government would be asked what it was doing to avoid such a thing from happening.

So when news came into the Scottish-Islamic Foundation office this week of one Neil MacGregor pleading guilty to threatening to blow up Glasgow Central Mosque and behead one Muslim a week until all Scottish mosques were shut down, we thought it couldn’t possibly be true.

There had been no build up to such a trial, no coverage during it and none on the verdict. We Googled it, and nothing came up. Not a sausage, nada, zilch.

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