Protest held in East Jerusalem- Stop The Occupation of Palestine
JERUSALEM — Israel's battered pro-peace camp is showing signs of life with a weekly Jerusalem protest by a motley collection of anarchists, intellectuals and radical rabbis, but they face a public increasingly hostile to their point of view.
Activists have gathered each Friday since November in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to protest the eviction of Palestinians from their homes to make room for Jewish settlers. The demonstrations have become a rallying cry for the shrunken left and freedom of speech advocates who say their country has become increasingly intolerant of dissent since waging a bruising winter war in Gaza.
Activists point to a recent campaign vilifying a prominent human rights campaigner, arrests of protesters and attempts by government officials and right-wing groups to halt international funding of Israeli organizations they deemed disloyal.
"It's about time the left in Israel protest against the way the right-wing is kidnapping our future and our life," said Israeli author David Grossman, a leading dove, at a recent protest.
In the latest protest Friday, some 250 demonstrators assembled by a road blowing on shrieking whistles and loudly banging on drums. "You have no shame!" they chanted at Jewish settlers.
Several police officers watched warily across the road, backed by riot police wielding batons and assault rifles.
The weekly demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah began after Israeli police evicted Palestinian families from the flash point neighborhood and allowed Jewish settlers to move into their homes.
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Activists have gathered each Friday since November in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to protest the eviction of Palestinians from their homes to make room for Jewish settlers. The demonstrations have become a rallying cry for the shrunken left and freedom of speech advocates who say their country has become increasingly intolerant of dissent since waging a bruising winter war in Gaza.
Activists point to a recent campaign vilifying a prominent human rights campaigner, arrests of protesters and attempts by government officials and right-wing groups to halt international funding of Israeli organizations they deemed disloyal.
"It's about time the left in Israel protest against the way the right-wing is kidnapping our future and our life," said Israeli author David Grossman, a leading dove, at a recent protest.
In the latest protest Friday, some 250 demonstrators assembled by a road blowing on shrieking whistles and loudly banging on drums. "You have no shame!" they chanted at Jewish settlers.
Several police officers watched warily across the road, backed by riot police wielding batons and assault rifles.
The weekly demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah began after Israeli police evicted Palestinian families from the flash point neighborhood and allowed Jewish settlers to move into their homes.
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Zionism is not the savior of the Jewish People
Zionism is a very heated discussion here on the Vine, with Israel in the news almost everyday with a new strategy against the war on terrorism and the known organization Hamas. but wait for a sec and look back at the original establishment of this new ideology or savior of the Jewish people and returning them to the promised land ( many say Zionism is the idea of giving Jews a right to have a country and yes i agree its that as well but much more as well.)
Zionism was not always around or part of the Jewish people or faith, but in the 1900s a few men thought it would be a good idea, maybe even divine to establish a home land for the Jewish people. I wont go into further detail because i want the reader to realize that, Zionism was just an idea by a few men.
These men were not men among the Jewish high Rabbi community, not men of scriptural or religious knowledge of the Jewish faith and people.
Zionism is not the savior of the Jewish people, its the ideology of making a home for the Jewish people. Jews are not more Jewish if they accept Israel, or less Jewish if they don't.
A Jew is truly Jewish when they follow their scriptures and books and obey the guidelines of God through their scriptures.
The Zionist Ideology has nothing to do with the Judaic teachings of the many prophets sent to the Jews as recorded by their scriptures, for example Adam, Noah, Suleiman, Abraham, Moses (peace be unto them ) to name a few, and to relate Zionism as part of Judaism is irrelevant, because only the Messiah would lead the Jews to the promised land, the day that God forgives the Jews and returns them to the promised land.
The Zionist ideology has contributed more harm to the Jewish people then good, a point I agree with many orthodox rabbis who repeat this.
A very important note.
Zionist today are many, and I know that many of them are good hearted people, not because they are Zionist or its the Zionist thing to do, but because they are still human beings.
My message is simple.
Enough is enough with military actions, walls gotta come down, more people must step up for peace through charity work, put the guns down and give each other hand.
60 years of war and military means have brought nothing but Shame to all of us. As long as their is conflict in Jerusalem and The holy land, Its a big shame to all three faith, Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, and our prophets would be ashamed of us as well. How can we call our selves among the believers when we authorize such measure of negotiations or means of democracy ? When will we realize that
Only through peaceful measure, we can accomplish Peace.
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Zionism was not always around or part of the Jewish people or faith, but in the 1900s a few men thought it would be a good idea, maybe even divine to establish a home land for the Jewish people. I wont go into further detail because i want the reader to realize that, Zionism was just an idea by a few men.
These men were not men among the Jewish high Rabbi community, not men of scriptural or religious knowledge of the Jewish faith and people.
Zionism is not the savior of the Jewish people, its the ideology of making a home for the Jewish people. Jews are not more Jewish if they accept Israel, or less Jewish if they don't.
A Jew is truly Jewish when they follow their scriptures and books and obey the guidelines of God through their scriptures.
The Zionist Ideology has nothing to do with the Judaic teachings of the many prophets sent to the Jews as recorded by their scriptures, for example Adam, Noah, Suleiman, Abraham, Moses (peace be unto them ) to name a few, and to relate Zionism as part of Judaism is irrelevant, because only the Messiah would lead the Jews to the promised land, the day that God forgives the Jews and returns them to the promised land.
The Zionist ideology has contributed more harm to the Jewish people then good, a point I agree with many orthodox rabbis who repeat this.
A very important note.
Zionist today are many, and I know that many of them are good hearted people, not because they are Zionist or its the Zionist thing to do, but because they are still human beings.
My message is simple.
Enough is enough with military actions, walls gotta come down, more people must step up for peace through charity work, put the guns down and give each other hand.
60 years of war and military means have brought nothing but Shame to all of us. As long as their is conflict in Jerusalem and The holy land, Its a big shame to all three faith, Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, and our prophets would be ashamed of us as well. How can we call our selves among the believers when we authorize such measure of negotiations or means of democracy ? When will we realize that
Only through peaceful measure, we can accomplish Peace.
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Heaven and Hell
I know some say well you can't prove a hell or a heaven, and as long as we are living I will agree that Yes I can't prove heaven or hell to exist as we here on earth like to see things for ourselves to generally believe in it. but there is something also that we must look at and that is the traces around us which ultimately should lead us to think, that well there are laws in nature which can't be manipulated with and there for must have been set specifically to meet the needs of the existing operation, intelligent design is something that cannot be ignored and I can see the Creation around me, and beyond earth.
Science has proven that if we were to count each grain of sand on all the beach's on earth, it will not be enough to count all the galaxies that are in space. Now we live on this one now, who is certain that our life will not continue else where, and if there is no hell, can the sun not be used as a example of such fierce power ???? and does not earth give a brief small notion of what heaven might be like ????
We live on earth and have been for thousands and thousands of years, life existed before man walked the earth and FOR CERTAIN this creation is not bound to man,but quite the opposite, its mankind who are bound to the life that they are GIVEN.
Has anyone made their own life or where they given it ? Has mankind decided they wanted two arms or was it given to them, what about our brains which science prove to have simply infinite room to store information and is still a mystery in oh so many ways. What about the DNA was man responsible for that or was it given to them as well ?
Now the Creator of the sun and the galaxies cannot make a heaven or a hell ??? its just illogical, matter fact I think its done with ease,
Mankind comes and goes, the laws of creation NEVER CHANGE and the Creator has created this earth for a PURPOSE, All of creation serves its Creator, for nothing is created without purpose...
Earth purpose is a battle ground between good and evil.
Heaven is the ultimate Goal of those of good.
Hell is the ultimate destination of those of evil.
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Science has proven that if we were to count each grain of sand on all the beach's on earth, it will not be enough to count all the galaxies that are in space. Now we live on this one now, who is certain that our life will not continue else where, and if there is no hell, can the sun not be used as a example of such fierce power ???? and does not earth give a brief small notion of what heaven might be like ????
We live on earth and have been for thousands and thousands of years, life existed before man walked the earth and FOR CERTAIN this creation is not bound to man,but quite the opposite, its mankind who are bound to the life that they are GIVEN.
Has anyone made their own life or where they given it ? Has mankind decided they wanted two arms or was it given to them, what about our brains which science prove to have simply infinite room to store information and is still a mystery in oh so many ways. What about the DNA was man responsible for that or was it given to them as well ?
Now the Creator of the sun and the galaxies cannot make a heaven or a hell ??? its just illogical, matter fact I think its done with ease,
Mankind comes and goes, the laws of creation NEVER CHANGE and the Creator has created this earth for a PURPOSE, All of creation serves its Creator, for nothing is created without purpose...
Earth purpose is a battle ground between good and evil.
Heaven is the ultimate Goal of those of good.
Hell is the ultimate destination of those of evil.
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God's Plan
Peace be unto you all brother and sisters.
This is a very serious issue which should be looked at very delicately.
Now for starters, we live in a so called Modern World, with so many advances and break through and discoveries. It gives great hope for whats to come in the future days and what will the world look like or operate for our youth and future generations.
People naturally have a tendency to believe in a God/Superior being/Creator of our existence and therefor are most often on a quest to learn more about the purpose of our creation, as we live our daily lives we come across so many decisions and choices.
Some decisions or choices will effect us and some will effect others, some will effect both.
Now where does God fit in on all this ?
I see God creating plans for every single human being, Every single human being had a whole lots of plans to follow, and when people ultimately start following their own means, rather then doing for the good, then you follow a plan that ordained to sin period, we make our fate by following our desires, or to be Just.
God is in control of all Plans, man does not make their own plans, they make decisions and choices, Some sure you can say plan to be a doctor or ect, Its them using there free will to become doctors.
When we use free will, its the free will that God has written to happen if you choose that path, and if you choose to go a different path, that destination is ordained already as well, whatever you decide to do, weather its to get up everyday at 5am, or sit on a couch all day, will have their own individual results and these results are known to God, who knows all the plans.
Lets give an example of something tragic like Murder.
If anyone came and murdered another person, it would be in God's plan for that to happen, How well the person killed, is written for him that this man might kill him, and it came true, As far as the killer goes, its written that if he want to kill, he can kill, that same person can go and kill at free will who ever he wants until someone stops him, now maybe im loosing some readers, but what Im saying is that these plans are written because free will, gives us so many choices to make every day, every hour every minute sometimes.
Every action we do has its results and vise versa
In regards to the murders you think oh well he did what God planned, yet that is only partially correct, because God also wrote down for that same murders a path of good. So it comes down to the individual, it and will always come down to the individual. What will I do, the right thing or the wrong thing.
This off course is a delicate issue in itself, whats right and whats wrong and maybe we can get into that later.
Ultimately we control our fate, through free will and by using this free will for good, we will have good results to show for, If we choose the other path its us who are deciders of the paths written.
That's just the magnificence of the creation and God, God is in control of everything, yet gives us choices for us to pick, are we gonna do the right thing or no. Are we gonna speak the truth or lie.
God knows the plans and what mankind will ultimately do and no Darkness can oppress any light and only God's plans will succeed, mankind are being tested all the time.
Some people generally have the wrong Idea that by doing evil, they are doing God's work, but they are doing their OWN WORK, by making the decision to do evil, evil is available, as well as good.
God also wrote down so many other ways, which you rejected and choose to follow that path. As you live day to day, God can easily be sending you signals, but its you who refuses to accept them.
The Quran makes a very accurate discribtion, when quoted that "God is beyond all Comprehension", meaning no human being will ever comprehend God.
People have to realize that, God also wants them to be good, at least try.
The prophet Mohammad pbuh said " If you see injustice, then try to stop it. If you cant stop it, then speak against it, and if you cant speak against it, then pray to end it. "
Any one of us can go and do something bad, but why when you also have the choice to do good ?
So remember that whatever choice you make in your life, its destination is already ordained, Path of sin, will lead to a path of more sin. Path of good, will lead to a path of more good.
Jesus pbuh also said " love your enemy, for if you only love those who love you, then WHATS THE REWARD IN THAT ? "
So much gets blamed on religion or God and its just none sense, The problems we face today are man made and will continue to be man made, because the choices mankind are making.
Its on mankind to do good works on their own to change the world. We can pray all we want, but first we must try to take action, if we cant then lets speak about it, and if we cant do that. Then lets pray for it.
We are letting the few bad ones, ruin the Image for all of us. We as a religious world should be ashamed of our selves for allowing our earth to become is such a disarray. Adam and Eve are confirmed by almost all religions. The three major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam confirm this, Yet so many are being killed as they were aliens and not apart of the HUMAN FAMILY <- Key Word.
Just like we were a single cell in our mothers womb and divided, then divided, then divided and divided and kept going until we have a full structure.
Can you IMAGINE if mankind Operated as affective as our own mechanisms ???
What kinda overall Structure would we have then? and Yes it would be GOD'S PLAN
I wish to say Glory be to God the One eternal true Master of the creation and peace be unto all the brothers and sisters.
Sallam alaykum wa rahmet Allah wa barakato
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This is a very serious issue which should be looked at very delicately.
Now for starters, we live in a so called Modern World, with so many advances and break through and discoveries. It gives great hope for whats to come in the future days and what will the world look like or operate for our youth and future generations.
People naturally have a tendency to believe in a God/Superior being/Creator of our existence and therefor are most often on a quest to learn more about the purpose of our creation, as we live our daily lives we come across so many decisions and choices.
Some decisions or choices will effect us and some will effect others, some will effect both.
Now where does God fit in on all this ?
I see God creating plans for every single human being, Every single human being had a whole lots of plans to follow, and when people ultimately start following their own means, rather then doing for the good, then you follow a plan that ordained to sin period, we make our fate by following our desires, or to be Just.
God is in control of all Plans, man does not make their own plans, they make decisions and choices, Some sure you can say plan to be a doctor or ect, Its them using there free will to become doctors.
When we use free will, its the free will that God has written to happen if you choose that path, and if you choose to go a different path, that destination is ordained already as well, whatever you decide to do, weather its to get up everyday at 5am, or sit on a couch all day, will have their own individual results and these results are known to God, who knows all the plans.
Lets give an example of something tragic like Murder.
If anyone came and murdered another person, it would be in God's plan for that to happen, How well the person killed, is written for him that this man might kill him, and it came true, As far as the killer goes, its written that if he want to kill, he can kill, that same person can go and kill at free will who ever he wants until someone stops him, now maybe im loosing some readers, but what Im saying is that these plans are written because free will, gives us so many choices to make every day, every hour every minute sometimes.
Every action we do has its results and vise versa
In regards to the murders you think oh well he did what God planned, yet that is only partially correct, because God also wrote down for that same murders a path of good. So it comes down to the individual, it and will always come down to the individual. What will I do, the right thing or the wrong thing.
This off course is a delicate issue in itself, whats right and whats wrong and maybe we can get into that later.
Ultimately we control our fate, through free will and by using this free will for good, we will have good results to show for, If we choose the other path its us who are deciders of the paths written.
That's just the magnificence of the creation and God, God is in control of everything, yet gives us choices for us to pick, are we gonna do the right thing or no. Are we gonna speak the truth or lie.
God knows the plans and what mankind will ultimately do and no Darkness can oppress any light and only God's plans will succeed, mankind are being tested all the time.
Some people generally have the wrong Idea that by doing evil, they are doing God's work, but they are doing their OWN WORK, by making the decision to do evil, evil is available, as well as good.
God also wrote down so many other ways, which you rejected and choose to follow that path. As you live day to day, God can easily be sending you signals, but its you who refuses to accept them.
The Quran makes a very accurate discribtion, when quoted that "God is beyond all Comprehension", meaning no human being will ever comprehend God.
People have to realize that, God also wants them to be good, at least try.
The prophet Mohammad pbuh said " If you see injustice, then try to stop it. If you cant stop it, then speak against it, and if you cant speak against it, then pray to end it. "
Any one of us can go and do something bad, but why when you also have the choice to do good ?
So remember that whatever choice you make in your life, its destination is already ordained, Path of sin, will lead to a path of more sin. Path of good, will lead to a path of more good.
Jesus pbuh also said " love your enemy, for if you only love those who love you, then WHATS THE REWARD IN THAT ? "
So much gets blamed on religion or God and its just none sense, The problems we face today are man made and will continue to be man made, because the choices mankind are making.
Its on mankind to do good works on their own to change the world. We can pray all we want, but first we must try to take action, if we cant then lets speak about it, and if we cant do that. Then lets pray for it.
We are letting the few bad ones, ruin the Image for all of us. We as a religious world should be ashamed of our selves for allowing our earth to become is such a disarray. Adam and Eve are confirmed by almost all religions. The three major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam confirm this, Yet so many are being killed as they were aliens and not apart of the HUMAN FAMILY <- Key Word.
Just like we were a single cell in our mothers womb and divided, then divided, then divided and divided and kept going until we have a full structure.
Can you IMAGINE if mankind Operated as affective as our own mechanisms ???
What kinda overall Structure would we have then? and Yes it would be GOD'S PLAN
I wish to say Glory be to God the One eternal true Master of the creation and peace be unto all the brothers and sisters.
Sallam alaykum wa rahmet Allah wa barakato
Protein called Lectin found in Bananas, Helps fight the HIV virus.
Scientists say a plant protein found in bananas could be a powerful weapon in the fight against HIV.
A research team at an American university says the lectin found in bananas proved as potent as two current anti-HIV drugs in laboratory tests.
The lectin effectively stops infections by outsmarting HIV and preventing it from becoming integrated in a target cell.
Scientists say new weapons in the fight against HIV are urgently needed, and these lectins are one of the most promising options.
The University of Michigan researchers believe that vaginal microbicides made with this plant protein could be a cheap and effective treatment, particularly in developing countries.
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A research team at an American university says the lectin found in bananas proved as potent as two current anti-HIV drugs in laboratory tests.
The lectin effectively stops infections by outsmarting HIV and preventing it from becoming integrated in a target cell.
Scientists say new weapons in the fight against HIV are urgently needed, and these lectins are one of the most promising options.
The University of Michigan researchers believe that vaginal microbicides made with this plant protein could be a cheap and effective treatment, particularly in developing countries.
Sources-BBC and ABC
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Gandhi
Finkelstein suggests that the Israel-Palestine conflict is among the least controversial in the contemporary world. He argues that a consensus exists among historians on the past, among human rights organizations on the present and among the legal-diplomatic community on the future and how to resolve the conflict. In the second part of the lecture Finkelstein looks at aspects of Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent resistance. His focus lies on three key questions: Whom does Gandhi want to reach: the oppressors or the bystanders? How does he want to reach them: through the mind or through the heart? What needs to be done to reach them: to display suffering or to display dignity? The ideas brought forward show that Gandhi’s philosophy is replete with gaps and contradictions. However, it also endows on the fact that the consensus in the international community for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict lays the foundation for a successful application of Gandhi’s strategy. We need only practice what he called Satyagraha: Hold on to the Truth! Finkelstein suggests that the Israel-Palestine conflict is among the least controversial in the contemporary world. He argues that a consensus exists among historians on the past, among human rights organizations on the present and among the legal-diplomatic community on the future and how to resolve the conflict. In the second part of the lecture Finkelstein looks at aspects of Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent resistance. His focus lies on three key questions: Whom does Gandhi want to reach: the oppressors or the bystanders? How does he want to reach them: through the mind or through the heart? What needs to be done to reach them: to display suffering or to display dignity? The ideas brought forward show that Gandhi’s philosophy is replete with gaps and contradictions. However, it also endows on the fact that the consensus in the international community for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict lays the foundation for a successful application of Gandhi’s strategy. We need only practice wha...all » Finkelstein suggests that the Israel-Palestine conflict is among the least controversial in the contemporary world. He argues that a consensus exists among historians on the past, among human rights organizations on the present and among the legal-diplomatic community on the future and how to resolve the conflict. In the second part of the lecture Finkelstein looks at aspects of Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent resistance. His focus lies on three key questions: Whom does Gandhi want to reach: the oppressors or the bystanders? How does he want to reach them: through the mind or through the heart? What needs to be done to reach them: to display suffering or to display dignity? The ideas brought forward show that Gandhi’s philosophy is replete with gaps and contradictions. However, it also endows on the fact that the consensus in the international community for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict lays the foundation for a successful application of Gandhi’s strategy. We need only practice what he called Satyagraha: Hold on to the Truth
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Iran attacks US Afghan role
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has accused the US of playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, following talks in the country with his counterpart Hamid Karzai.
The accusation, made in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, was the same as that made against Iran by Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, on a trip to Afghanistan this week.
Asked at a news conference with Karzai about Gates' comments, Ahmadinejad responded: "The question is what are you [Gates and troops] doing here in this region?
"You are 12,000km away on the other side the of the world. What are you doing here? This is a serious question.
"They are not successful in their fight against terrorists, because they are playing a double game. They themselves created this excuse of terrorism themselves, and now they say that they want to stop them. It is not possible.
"The fight against terrorism is not a military one it requires the work of intelligence, through respecting nations and to separate people from terrorists."
'Double dealing'
While on a three-day visit to assess a US and Nato troop increase in the country, Gates had said that Tehran is "double dealing" in Afghanistan by stating that they are a good neighbour to Kabul while providing "low level support" to the Taliban.
Gates was on the last day of his visit in Afghanistan when Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad and Karzai had met to talk about "bilateral relations between the two countries and expansion of economic relations between the two countries", Siamak Hirawi, Karzai's spokesman, said.
Common concerns
Al Jazeera's James Bays, in Kabul, said, that until the issue of the US arose, the news conference mostly concerned regional co-operation.
"The two sides [Afghanistan and Iran] share a very long border," he said.
"They are both concerned about the Taliban and [the illegal trade in] opium."
It is the first meeting between Karzai and Ahmadinejad since they were both re-elected in disputed elections in 2009.
The US military invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to remove the Taliban, who they accused of supporting al-Qaeda operatives, from power following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US of the same year.
Washington's forces remain in Afghanistan in an attempt to quell Taliban and al-Qadea attacks against Karzai's government.
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The accusation, made in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, was the same as that made against Iran by Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, on a trip to Afghanistan this week.
Asked at a news conference with Karzai about Gates' comments, Ahmadinejad responded: "The question is what are you [Gates and troops] doing here in this region?
"You are 12,000km away on the other side the of the world. What are you doing here? This is a serious question.
"They are not successful in their fight against terrorists, because they are playing a double game. They themselves created this excuse of terrorism themselves, and now they say that they want to stop them. It is not possible.
"The fight against terrorism is not a military one it requires the work of intelligence, through respecting nations and to separate people from terrorists."
'Double dealing'
While on a three-day visit to assess a US and Nato troop increase in the country, Gates had said that Tehran is "double dealing" in Afghanistan by stating that they are a good neighbour to Kabul while providing "low level support" to the Taliban.
Gates was on the last day of his visit in Afghanistan when Ahmadinejad arrived on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad and Karzai had met to talk about "bilateral relations between the two countries and expansion of economic relations between the two countries", Siamak Hirawi, Karzai's spokesman, said.
Common concerns
Al Jazeera's James Bays, in Kabul, said, that until the issue of the US arose, the news conference mostly concerned regional co-operation.
"The two sides [Afghanistan and Iran] share a very long border," he said.
"They are both concerned about the Taliban and [the illegal trade in] opium."
It is the first meeting between Karzai and Ahmadinejad since they were both re-elected in disputed elections in 2009.
The US military invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to remove the Taliban, who they accused of supporting al-Qaeda operatives, from power following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US of the same year.
Washington's forces remain in Afghanistan in an attempt to quell Taliban and al-Qadea attacks against Karzai's government.
Anti-Wall protest in West Bank/ Palestine
Hundreds of Palestinians and international activists have been protesting against the construction of Israel's separation wall in the West Bank.
The demonstration in the village of Bi'lin on Friday marked five years of opposition to the barrier, which cuts Palestinian villagers off from about two square kilometres of their land.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports. [20 Feb 10]
Islam And The Moslim World: Who is Truly The Poor in the Muslim Ummah
Abu Huraira (Radi allaho anho)may God be pleased with him reported That Allah's Messenger Mohammad (peace be upon him) as saying: Do you know who is poor?
They (the Companions of the Holy Prophet) said: A poor man amongst us is one who has neither dirham with him nor wealth. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The poor of my Umma would be he who would come on the Day of Resurrecton with prayers and fasts and Zakat but since he hurled abuses upon others, brought calumny against others and unlawfully consumed the wealth of others and shed the blood of others and beat others, and his virtues would be credited to the account of one (who suffered at his hand). And if his good deeds fall short to clear the account, then his sins would be entered in (his account) and he would be thrown in the Hell-Fire.
Islam And The Moslim World: Who is Truly The Poor in the Muslim Ummah
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They (the Companions of the Holy Prophet) said: A poor man amongst us is one who has neither dirham with him nor wealth. He (the Holy Prophet) said: The poor of my Umma would be he who would come on the Day of Resurrecton with prayers and fasts and Zakat but since he hurled abuses upon others, brought calumny against others and unlawfully consumed the wealth of others and shed the blood of others and beat others, and his virtues would be credited to the account of one (who suffered at his hand). And if his good deeds fall short to clear the account, then his sins would be entered in (his account) and he would be thrown in the Hell-Fire.
Islam And The Moslim World: Who is Truly The Poor in the Muslim Ummah
Holocaust Museum built by Arab Lawyer
As the sirens wail for Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Israeli diplomatic corps urges the world to remember and never permit such atrocities to happen again, one Arab lawyer takes history lessons about the Holocaust out to the Palestinian people. Khaled Kasab Mahameed faces opposition from Holocaust deniers, but still he persists with his quixotic mission: traveling to the West Bank to educate Palestinians about the Shoah, the final solution, the Holocaust.
Many Palestinians have never heard that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during Word War II — it doesn't rate a mention in their school history books. Others deny that the Holocaust ever happened. According to this blinkered reasoning, the Jews are fighting Palestinians over their homeland, and they cannot afford to have sympathy for their enemy. Mahameed sees this view as tragically misguided. He says:
The key to the Palestinians achieving their own goals is to understand the Holocaust, and the place it holds in the Israeli psyche and its obsession with security.
Mahameed passes around a death-camp photo of a Jewish inmate standing over a mass grave full of naked corpses. The room of Palestinians falls silent. "That man, that survivor, in the photograph came to Israel. Can you imagine the nightmares, the horrors that he brought with him? It's a suffering that nobody, even us Palestinians, can begin to comprehend," he says with quiet, lawyerly persistence. The photo moves around the room, again and again, in silence. Finally, a retired Palestinian general, Abdul Latah Solimia, once captive in an Israeli military prison in Lebanon says: "As a militant, I know the cost of war and hatred. For 60 years, we have tried to eliminate each other, and neither has won. We Israelis and Palestinians should share this land."
Mahameed's obsesison with teaching Arabs about the Holocaust occurred four years ago, when he took his two children to see the massive 20-foot high concrete wall that Israel has erected around parts of Jerusalem to keep out Palestinians. It is so high in places that it seems to sever half the blue sky. "I told my son to break off a piece of the wall as a souvenir. It was very difficult, and while he was trying, I asked myself, what would drive the Israelis to do such a thing to us, build such a monstrosity as this wall?" He gathered his son and daughter and drove them to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum. "It was very moving. I couldn't breathe. Six million. It's like something off another planet," he recalls.
Touring the somber museum, it occurred to Mahameed that "we Palestinians are the victims of the terrible things that were inflicted on the Jews by the Holocaust." The images of the crimes perpetrated against the Jews of Europe also made him understand international support for Israel. "If an Israeli child dies from a Gaza rocket, the Israelis can take a photo of that child to America and them about 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the death camps, and Israelis will be given more money and weapons to use against us," he says. Most Israelis experience the same images of a Gaza rocket attack in the exterminationist frame of Auschwitz, not simply as a product of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over land.
Using photos donated by Yad Vashem and images from the Naqba — the "Catastrophe," which is how Palestinians refer to the events surrounding Israel's independence, which left thousands of Palestinians in exile and in refugee camps — the lawyer set up a one-room museum in his hometown of Nazareth, called the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education. Every week, he travels to towns, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank trying to enlighten his fellow Palestinians. Says Mahameed, "Even with the militants, when I explain to them that Israel's brutal policies in the Palestinian territories stem from the Holocaust, they tell me 'You're bringing us an atomic bomb. We need to think about this.'"
Sometimes, his message is greeted with hostility — even in his own family. Mahameed has been ostracized by his brothers, who say that his obsession with the Holocaust is tantamount to sympathizing with Israel. False rumors that he is secretly on Israeli payroll dog him.
On the Israeli side, there is incomprehension, too. Yad Vashem staffers question his agenda." Replies Mahameed: "They don't want us Palestinians to have pity on them. They only want to show us how mighty they are."
Mahameed is an avid believer in Mahatma Gandhi's dictum that truth leads to non-violence, and he sees himself practicing a kind of ju-jitsu, using Israel's own moral superiority over the Holocaust as a way to shame the Israeli 'occupiers' in the West Bank into more humane treatment for the Palestinians. "If the Israelis believe that the Holocaust justifies this kind of brutal discrimination, then they're wrong."
He travels through army checkpoints showing his ID card and a photo from Auschwitz. At first he's met with suspicion. "I tell the soldiers that this could be a photo of their grandfather, and that I understand that they, as Jews, are unique victims. But the paradox is that we Palestinians have the Holocaust on our shoulders, too."
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Many Palestinians have never heard that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during Word War II — it doesn't rate a mention in their school history books. Others deny that the Holocaust ever happened. According to this blinkered reasoning, the Jews are fighting Palestinians over their homeland, and they cannot afford to have sympathy for their enemy. Mahameed sees this view as tragically misguided. He says:
The key to the Palestinians achieving their own goals is to understand the Holocaust, and the place it holds in the Israeli psyche and its obsession with security.
Mahameed passes around a death-camp photo of a Jewish inmate standing over a mass grave full of naked corpses. The room of Palestinians falls silent. "That man, that survivor, in the photograph came to Israel. Can you imagine the nightmares, the horrors that he brought with him? It's a suffering that nobody, even us Palestinians, can begin to comprehend," he says with quiet, lawyerly persistence. The photo moves around the room, again and again, in silence. Finally, a retired Palestinian general, Abdul Latah Solimia, once captive in an Israeli military prison in Lebanon says: "As a militant, I know the cost of war and hatred. For 60 years, we have tried to eliminate each other, and neither has won. We Israelis and Palestinians should share this land."
Mahameed's obsesison with teaching Arabs about the Holocaust occurred four years ago, when he took his two children to see the massive 20-foot high concrete wall that Israel has erected around parts of Jerusalem to keep out Palestinians. It is so high in places that it seems to sever half the blue sky. "I told my son to break off a piece of the wall as a souvenir. It was very difficult, and while he was trying, I asked myself, what would drive the Israelis to do such a thing to us, build such a monstrosity as this wall?" He gathered his son and daughter and drove them to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum. "It was very moving. I couldn't breathe. Six million. It's like something off another planet," he recalls.
Touring the somber museum, it occurred to Mahameed that "we Palestinians are the victims of the terrible things that were inflicted on the Jews by the Holocaust." The images of the crimes perpetrated against the Jews of Europe also made him understand international support for Israel. "If an Israeli child dies from a Gaza rocket, the Israelis can take a photo of that child to America and them about 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the death camps, and Israelis will be given more money and weapons to use against us," he says. Most Israelis experience the same images of a Gaza rocket attack in the exterminationist frame of Auschwitz, not simply as a product of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over land.
Using photos donated by Yad Vashem and images from the Naqba — the "Catastrophe," which is how Palestinians refer to the events surrounding Israel's independence, which left thousands of Palestinians in exile and in refugee camps — the lawyer set up a one-room museum in his hometown of Nazareth, called the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education. Every week, he travels to towns, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank trying to enlighten his fellow Palestinians. Says Mahameed, "Even with the militants, when I explain to them that Israel's brutal policies in the Palestinian territories stem from the Holocaust, they tell me 'You're bringing us an atomic bomb. We need to think about this.'"
Sometimes, his message is greeted with hostility — even in his own family. Mahameed has been ostracized by his brothers, who say that his obsession with the Holocaust is tantamount to sympathizing with Israel. False rumors that he is secretly on Israeli payroll dog him.
On the Israeli side, there is incomprehension, too. Yad Vashem staffers question his agenda." Replies Mahameed: "They don't want us Palestinians to have pity on them. They only want to show us how mighty they are."
Mahameed is an avid believer in Mahatma Gandhi's dictum that truth leads to non-violence, and he sees himself practicing a kind of ju-jitsu, using Israel's own moral superiority over the Holocaust as a way to shame the Israeli 'occupiers' in the West Bank into more humane treatment for the Palestinians. "If the Israelis believe that the Holocaust justifies this kind of brutal discrimination, then they're wrong."
He travels through army checkpoints showing his ID card and a photo from Auschwitz. At first he's met with suspicion. "I tell the soldiers that this could be a photo of their grandfather, and that I understand that they, as Jews, are unique victims. But the paradox is that we Palestinians have the Holocaust on our shoulders, too."
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Suit: Prostitute, strippers part of Blackwater fraud
Washington (CNN) -- Two ex-Blackwater Worldwide employees allege the company charged the government for a prostitute and strippers and kept incompetent personnel for financial reasons, part of what they call a systematic pattern to defraud authorities.
The accusations come in a lawsuit filed by Brad and Melan Davis -- who said the fraudulent activity, such as double billing and submitting false invoices, occurred while the security firm, now known as Xe, carried out its work in Iraq, Afghanistan and in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.
Melan Davis, who was involved in record-keeping, said Blackwater billed the government for prostitution services in Afghanistan from a Filipino female, whose name was on Blackwater's payroll roster under a category called "Morale Welfare Recreation."
She said Blackwater billed the woman's plane tickets and monthly salary to the United States.
The lawsuit also said a vendor being paid for "cleaning services" in Louisiana was providing strippers.
Another accusation in the suit was that Melan Davis was wrongfully dismissed after raising the issue of "fraud and abuse."
Xe on Friday responded to the suit.
"The allegations are without merit and the company will vigorously defend against this lawsuit. It is noteworthy that the government has declined to intervene in this action," Xe said in a statement to CNN.
The married couple filed suit in December 2008 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the False Claims Act. It was unsealed this month.
Blackwater became the target of widespread Iraqi outrage after its contractors were involved in the September 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisoor Square that left 17 civilians dead. That outrage was renewed in December when a U.S. judge dismissed manslaughter charges against five guards involved in the shootings on constitutional grounds.
In the fraud suit, Brad Davis, an ex-Marine who worked as a security guard for Blackwater, said he "personally observed" three instances where personnel "intentionally used excessive and unjustified deadly force" and the suit said Blackwater refused to fire such "unqualified people."
Blackwater would continue to retain "wholly incompetent" personnel so they could pay their tuition bills to the company's private training facility, the suit said.
In Louisiana, where Blackwater was contracted to supply security services after Katrina, employees there "submitted a variety of bogus receipts," the suit said.
"For example, Blackwater employees, when filling up Blackwater vehicles at commercial gas stations, would simply pick up the receipts that were left behind by other customers. They would then submit these receipts and be paid in cash by Blackwater."
At the same time, the suit said, Blackwater failed to provide the services set down under its contract with Louisiana and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It said Blackwater didn't monitor the "deadly weapons" it provided employees and "lost track of countless weapons."
The suit said Blackwater overbilled for travel expenses and "created phone invoices to obscure the fact that Blackwater had failed to keep any of the necessary contemporaneous documentation on travel."
The suit said Melan Davis attempted "to blow the whistle on the fraud and abuse occurring in New Orleans" and was told in 2006 she "needed to back off." The suit said she was fired in 2008 when "she was on leave battling cancer."
Blackwater had about 1,000 contractors working in Iraq at the height of its involvement, guarding diplomatic convoys and supply vehicles after the U.S. invasion in 2003. At least 10 of its employees were killed, including four whose burned and mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets of Falluja after an ambush in 2004.
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The accusations come in a lawsuit filed by Brad and Melan Davis -- who said the fraudulent activity, such as double billing and submitting false invoices, occurred while the security firm, now known as Xe, carried out its work in Iraq, Afghanistan and in Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.
Melan Davis, who was involved in record-keeping, said Blackwater billed the government for prostitution services in Afghanistan from a Filipino female, whose name was on Blackwater's payroll roster under a category called "Morale Welfare Recreation."
She said Blackwater billed the woman's plane tickets and monthly salary to the United States.
The lawsuit also said a vendor being paid for "cleaning services" in Louisiana was providing strippers.
Another accusation in the suit was that Melan Davis was wrongfully dismissed after raising the issue of "fraud and abuse."
Xe on Friday responded to the suit.
"The allegations are without merit and the company will vigorously defend against this lawsuit. It is noteworthy that the government has declined to intervene in this action," Xe said in a statement to CNN.
The married couple filed suit in December 2008 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the False Claims Act. It was unsealed this month.
Blackwater became the target of widespread Iraqi outrage after its contractors were involved in the September 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisoor Square that left 17 civilians dead. That outrage was renewed in December when a U.S. judge dismissed manslaughter charges against five guards involved in the shootings on constitutional grounds.
In the fraud suit, Brad Davis, an ex-Marine who worked as a security guard for Blackwater, said he "personally observed" three instances where personnel "intentionally used excessive and unjustified deadly force" and the suit said Blackwater refused to fire such "unqualified people."
Blackwater would continue to retain "wholly incompetent" personnel so they could pay their tuition bills to the company's private training facility, the suit said.
In Louisiana, where Blackwater was contracted to supply security services after Katrina, employees there "submitted a variety of bogus receipts," the suit said.
"For example, Blackwater employees, when filling up Blackwater vehicles at commercial gas stations, would simply pick up the receipts that were left behind by other customers. They would then submit these receipts and be paid in cash by Blackwater."
At the same time, the suit said, Blackwater failed to provide the services set down under its contract with Louisiana and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It said Blackwater didn't monitor the "deadly weapons" it provided employees and "lost track of countless weapons."
The suit said Blackwater overbilled for travel expenses and "created phone invoices to obscure the fact that Blackwater had failed to keep any of the necessary contemporaneous documentation on travel."
The suit said Melan Davis attempted "to blow the whistle on the fraud and abuse occurring in New Orleans" and was told in 2006 she "needed to back off." The suit said she was fired in 2008 when "she was on leave battling cancer."
Blackwater had about 1,000 contractors working in Iraq at the height of its involvement, guarding diplomatic convoys and supply vehicles after the U.S. invasion in 2003. At least 10 of its employees were killed, including four whose burned and mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets of Falluja after an ambush in 2004.
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Afghan avalanches toll goes up
At least 157 people have been killed in avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of the Afghan capital, the interior ministry has said.
Nearly a 1,000 Afghan troops had helped dig a footpath through snow alongside kilometres of stranded cars in the Salang Pass on Wednesday.
Zemeri Bashary, a ministry spokesman, said rescuers had recovered a total of 157 bodies since avalanches buried people in vehicles on the busy road two days earlier.
He said 2,600 people had been rescued so far.
General Mohammad Rajab, head of the Kabul-Salang highway, said rescue workers were still searching for survivors.
"The rescue operation is still ongoing, and the death toll may rise as we dig out dozens of other frozen bodies," he said.
Tunnel blocked
Days of heavy snowfall triggered the snow slides, which blocked the 2.6km Salang tunnel - a historic engineering feat that links Kabul and Afghanistan's north.
More than 200 lorries, buses and cars were trapped inside the tunnel at 3,400 metres above sea level.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said he was saddened by the deaths and ordered government workers to do all possible to open the pass.
Mohammad Hanif Atmar, the interior minister, fended off questions about why the road was open in the first place, insisting the situation appeared manageable until the storm struck abruptly.
"All of a sudden, a storm hit the area which resulted in a number of avalanches hitting the main highway and closing the road for up to 3.5 km," he told a news
conference.
Heavy snowfall and rain also caused floods in the south of the country. Zalmay Ayoubi, the spokesman for the governor of southern Kandahar province, said six people had been killed and 10 were missing as a result of floods.
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Nearly a 1,000 Afghan troops had helped dig a footpath through snow alongside kilometres of stranded cars in the Salang Pass on Wednesday.
Zemeri Bashary, a ministry spokesman, said rescuers had recovered a total of 157 bodies since avalanches buried people in vehicles on the busy road two days earlier.
He said 2,600 people had been rescued so far.
General Mohammad Rajab, head of the Kabul-Salang highway, said rescue workers were still searching for survivors.
"The rescue operation is still ongoing, and the death toll may rise as we dig out dozens of other frozen bodies," he said.
Tunnel blocked
Days of heavy snowfall triggered the snow slides, which blocked the 2.6km Salang tunnel - a historic engineering feat that links Kabul and Afghanistan's north.
More than 200 lorries, buses and cars were trapped inside the tunnel at 3,400 metres above sea level.
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said he was saddened by the deaths and ordered government workers to do all possible to open the pass.
Mohammad Hanif Atmar, the interior minister, fended off questions about why the road was open in the first place, insisting the situation appeared manageable until the storm struck abruptly.
"All of a sudden, a storm hit the area which resulted in a number of avalanches hitting the main highway and closing the road for up to 3.5 km," he told a news
conference.
Heavy snowfall and rain also caused floods in the south of the country. Zalmay Ayoubi, the spokesman for the governor of southern Kandahar province, said six people had been killed and 10 were missing as a result of floods.
Source : Aljazeera
World Talest Tower- Burj Khalifa
Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m.
The design incorporates ideas from traditional Islamic architecture, while the open petals of a desert flower were the inspiration for the tower’s base.
Burj Khalifa will be home to 1,044 luxury apartments, 49 floors of offices and eventually a 160-room Armani-branded hotel. Around 12,000 people are expected to live and work in the tower, which is part of a 500-acre development.
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British soldiers in terrorist attack
After Abu Ghraib, little else remains to shock and few stones are unturned in terms of the depths of evil and sheer depravity to which the soldiers of the USA and its allies are prepared to sink to, in a never-ending war which sees the occupation forces losing control on a daily basis.
Now it transpires that two British soldiers were dressed as Arabs and attacking the Iraqi security forces in Basra? And the British authorities have admitted they were members of the SAS? They were caught after shooting at and murdering an Iraqi police official and their car was found to be packed with explosives and a C4 detonator?
Or is it that the two troops were in fact undercover agents dressed as Sadrists, Al-Sadr's Mahdi army, trying to stir up a war in Iraq between rival anti-occupation forces to help the beleaguered Iraqi security forces to stay in control as events spiral ever downwards? Is it that they were planning a massive bomb attack against Shia targets, to blame on the Sunni?
Is it true that many of the killings in Iraq are not in fact perpetrated by Sunni extremists or foreign insurgents, but indeed by British and American security forces, trying to take the strain off their troops in their realization that the war in Iraq was a monumental mistake from day one, witness to freedom and democracy George Bush style and that followed by his sickening bunch of sycophants eager to make an easy buck on the international stage by breaking an international law or six?
At the end of the day, who are the terrorists in Iraq? Were not the international terrorists blocked from entering Iraq by Saddam Hussein and the floodgates heaved open by the USA and its allies? Was Saddam Hussein not the one telling the truth, along with Dr. David Kelly, on WMD? Was George Bush not the one "stiffing" the world? No? Where then is the WMD?
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Now it transpires that two British soldiers were dressed as Arabs and attacking the Iraqi security forces in Basra? And the British authorities have admitted they were members of the SAS? They were caught after shooting at and murdering an Iraqi police official and their car was found to be packed with explosives and a C4 detonator?
Or is it that the two troops were in fact undercover agents dressed as Sadrists, Al-Sadr's Mahdi army, trying to stir up a war in Iraq between rival anti-occupation forces to help the beleaguered Iraqi security forces to stay in control as events spiral ever downwards? Is it that they were planning a massive bomb attack against Shia targets, to blame on the Sunni?
Is it true that many of the killings in Iraq are not in fact perpetrated by Sunni extremists or foreign insurgents, but indeed by British and American security forces, trying to take the strain off their troops in their realization that the war in Iraq was a monumental mistake from day one, witness to freedom and democracy George Bush style and that followed by his sickening bunch of sycophants eager to make an easy buck on the international stage by breaking an international law or six?
At the end of the day, who are the terrorists in Iraq? Were not the international terrorists blocked from entering Iraq by Saddam Hussein and the floodgates heaved open by the USA and its allies? Was Saddam Hussein not the one telling the truth, along with Dr. David Kelly, on WMD? Was George Bush not the one "stiffing" the world? No? Where then is the WMD?
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The Prophet will be Against Three people.
Peace be unto you all
Real quick wanted to share some words of the prophet Mohammad pbuh....
Sales and Trade - 13th Safar 1431 (28th January 2010)
Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi-Allahu 'anhu):
The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) said, "Allah says, 'I will be
against three persons on the Day of Resurrection:
1. One who makes a covenant in My Name, but he proves treacherous.
2. One who sells a free person (as a slave) and eats the price,
3. And one who employs a laborer and gets the full work done by him but
does not pay him his wages.' "
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 430
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Real quick wanted to share some words of the prophet Mohammad pbuh....
Sales and Trade - 13th Safar 1431 (28th January 2010)
Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi-Allahu 'anhu):
The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) said, "Allah says, 'I will be
against three persons on the Day of Resurrection:
1. One who makes a covenant in My Name, but he proves treacherous.
2. One who sells a free person (as a slave) and eats the price,
3. And one who employs a laborer and gets the full work done by him but
does not pay him his wages.' "
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 430
Do You Lose the Good Deeds Done before Becoming Muslim ?
Hakim bin Hizam said, "O Allah's Apostle! I used to do good deeds in the
Pre-lslamic period of Ignorance, e.g., keeping good relations with my Kith
and kin, manumitting slaves and giving alms. Shall I receive a reward for
all that?" Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) replied, "You
embraced Islam with all the good deeds which you did in the past."
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 423
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Pre-lslamic period of Ignorance, e.g., keeping good relations with my Kith
and kin, manumitting slaves and giving alms. Shall I receive a reward for
all that?" Allah's Apostle (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) replied, "You
embraced Islam with all the good deeds which you did in the past."
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 423
Gaza Children Suffer from Psychological Trauma and Nightmares
Psychological trauma, nightmares stalk Gaza children
GAZA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Mona al-Samouni, 12, is depressed and has nightmares about the day - just over a year ago - when she witnessed her parents and a number of relatives being shot by Israeli soldiers in their home in Zeitoun, southeast of Gaza City.
Like a number of other children who witnessed horrific events during last year’s 23-day Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, Mona has become increasingly withdrawn and silent - common ways of coping with tragedies, doctors say.
Statistics about Palestinians who lost their life during the military operation vary, but NGOs place the overall number of persons killed between 1,387 and 1,417. The Gaza authorities report 1,444 fatal casualties, whilst Israel provides a figure of 1,166, according to the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report.
The killing of Mona's family is one of the most notorious incidents of last year’s conflict in Gaza (see BBC slideshow) and was one of 11 incidents investigated by the UN Mission “in which Israeli forces launched direct attacks against civilians with lethal outcome” and in which “the facts indicate no justifiable military objective pursued by the attack”. It said Israeli forces “killed 23 members of the extended al-Samouni family” on that day.
“There is a significant deterioration in the psychological well-being of Palestinian children who are living in the Gaza Strip, especially after the recent war,” Ayesh Samour, director of the Psychiatric Hospital in Gaza, told IRIN.
According to a study by NGO Ard al-Insan in Gaza, 73 percent of Gaza children are still suffering from psychological and behavioural disorders, including psychological trauma, nightmares, involuntary urination, high blood pressure and diabetes.
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GAZA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Mona al-Samouni, 12, is depressed and has nightmares about the day - just over a year ago - when she witnessed her parents and a number of relatives being shot by Israeli soldiers in their home in Zeitoun, southeast of Gaza City.
Like a number of other children who witnessed horrific events during last year’s 23-day Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, Mona has become increasingly withdrawn and silent - common ways of coping with tragedies, doctors say.
Statistics about Palestinians who lost their life during the military operation vary, but NGOs place the overall number of persons killed between 1,387 and 1,417. The Gaza authorities report 1,444 fatal casualties, whilst Israel provides a figure of 1,166, according to the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report.
The killing of Mona's family is one of the most notorious incidents of last year’s conflict in Gaza (see BBC slideshow) and was one of 11 incidents investigated by the UN Mission “in which Israeli forces launched direct attacks against civilians with lethal outcome” and in which “the facts indicate no justifiable military objective pursued by the attack”. It said Israeli forces “killed 23 members of the extended al-Samouni family” on that day.
“There is a significant deterioration in the psychological well-being of Palestinian children who are living in the Gaza Strip, especially after the recent war,” Ayesh Samour, director of the Psychiatric Hospital in Gaza, told IRIN.
According to a study by NGO Ard al-Insan in Gaza, 73 percent of Gaza children are still suffering from psychological and behavioural disorders, including psychological trauma, nightmares, involuntary urination, high blood pressure and diabetes.
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