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Timothy Garton Ash looks at views on the 'War on Terror'

[size=18]What we call Islam is a mirror in which we see ourselves[/size]

[size=16]Six views of the west's problems with the Muslim world
reveal as much about those who hold them as the
conflict itself[/size]

[b]Timothy Garton Ash[/b]
Thursday September 15, 2005
[url= Guardian[/url]

Sitting in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with a metal arrow on the ceiling of my hotel room pointing to Mecca and the television showing a female news presenter in full hijab, I feel impelled to write about our troubles w

Life Plans

So what are your life plans? We talk about em pretty much everywhere but there isn't any formal thread.

I know I am planning on crowning myself King of the World sometime around August and promptly retiring to my castle on jibralter.

Cyber Relationships

I've been following some threads in this forum over the last few days.

Interestingly, I've noticed all kinds of emotions, feelings and different ways of interaction being expressed.

Anger, rage, warmth, friendliness, laughter(lol), smiles, frowns, affection, love, hate, embarassment.

More interesting, events took a twist when people, were taking time off due to annoyance, sabbaticals due to stress, blaming others for invoking passion and rage and vowing not to apologise to someone.

Ramadan Resolutions

Salaam

You know the way some people make “New Year” resolutions….with only 3 weeks left till Ramadan starts-why don’t we all make a list of our “Ramadan resolutions”?

What are we going to try and accomplish this year? Read more Qur’an? Attend the Mosque regularly? Control our temper? Eat less at Iftar time? Read our Tahajid?

Are we going to make sure that we don’t miss our Sehri? Are we going to try to read our Tarawih daily?

Or are we like many (weak) people who make resolutions we will break them five fasts down the line?

Women's Voice Pardah?

"MuslimSisLilSis" wrote:
I'll find a way-

i can find my own partner WITHOUT dating him/meeting up alone with him/checkin him behind parents back

or even calling him up

it aint impossible-it can be done

I'll spare u the details cos I cant be bothered-

but watch out for an article explaining this issue in the next revival issue

that covers it all

By phone

Through internet...

BEWARE WOMEN'S VOICE SHOULD BE IN PARDAH,AND THROUGH INTERNET HE MAY BE A """FRAUD"""

Battle for Islam - The Debate

[size=18]The Islam Debate[/size]

[b]Wednesday, 14 September, 2005, at 2230 BST
BBC Four will debate the issues raised in the film Battle for Islam, screened on 5 Sept[/b]

Zeinab Badawi hosts a discussion programme exploring what the future holds for Islam both in the UK and around the world.

Will militant extremism win? Or are other more peaceful modes of existence possible?

A panel of Islamic experts will scrutinise an optimistic, moderate vision of the future put forward by the writer Ziauddin Sardar in his BBC Two programme Battle for Islam.

In the film, Sardar travels to five Muslim countries: Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco, Indonesia and Malaysia.

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