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Mobeen Vaid The Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah: The Prophet Lut ( Lot. as) lived at the same time as the Prophet Abraham (as) and was sent as a Messenger to a neighbouring tribe to the Prophet Abraham (as). That tribe, according to the Qur'an, practiced a perversion never before seen in the world: homosexuality. When the Prophet Lut (as) told the people to abandon one of the greatest sins and delivered to them the message of Allah, they rejected him. They denied that he was a Prophet and continued with their

By Yvonne Ridley I AM now home from Cox’s Bazar on the `Bangladesh-Myanmar border and appreciate my surrounds like never before. I am sitting here in the secure knowledge that no one is going to threaten or drive me and my family from our home. It makes me feel warm and safe but it also makes me feel sad because it is a feeling that is denied to the Rohingya people.

I would like to add my voice to the Guardian's call to Take away Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel peace prize. She no longer deserves it George Monbiot wrote, "Few of us expect much from political leaders: to do otherwise is to invite despair. But to Aung San Suu Kyi we entrusted our hopes. To mention her name was to invoke patience and resilience in the face of suffering, courage and determination in the unyielding struggle for freedom. She was an inspiration to us all.”

Jawed Anwar BRITISH government of Indians didn’t allowed any opposition to the government. Saying anything in the opposition of the British government was a criminal act. Today’s so-called champion of “freedom of expression” and democracy --hypocrite West-- never allowed any voice of dissent in any part of their occupied lands. But it was allowed to disgrace and abuse the most sacred personalities

By Mawlānā Muhammad Saleem Dhorat hafizahullāh If we study the lives of the pious servants of Allāh ta'ālā, i.e. the Ambiyā, Sahābah radhiyallāhu 'anhum, the Muhaddithūn, Fuqahā, Awliyā, we will find one common factor in their lives, and that is their concern for securing Husn-ul-Khātimah so that they are successful in the Court of Allāh ta'ālā. Despite their lives being full of virtue, they would worry and pray for death in the state of īmān and Islām.

Muhammad Tariq Ghazi The Battle of Badr was result of a Qurayshi aggression and subsequent defense strategy adopted by the Rasool-Allah. The Qurayshi pagans had been planning to destroy the newly established State of The Madinah. They had been oiling their war machine since almost all Muslims had migrated to The Madinah. The evacuee property was “confiscated” by the State of Makkah, sold to bidders and the money thus obtained was put into a war fund. The complete list of Ashab e Badr Al-Kubra

Syed Jawed Anwar Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) USA and Muslim American Society (MAS) organized its 42nd convention on Easter weekend (14-16 April) in Baltimore, Maryland. I attended after more than decade when it was in Hartford, Connecticut. At that time, the convention attracted under 10,000. After a few years the numbers crossed 10,000, and the convention organizers changed its venue to the Convention Center, Baltimore. Now the numbers are over 20,000.

By Yvonne Ridley So here we are again, another week and another fine mess your president has created because, like it or not, Jerusalem affects all of us.

Syed Jawed Anwar We will not recommend parents to send their children to public-funded schools of Ontario, Canada (or anywhere in North America) for the reasons given in my various articles on this issue. You can choose anything from home schooling, private, and religious schooling to avoid public schooling.

Syed Jawed Anwar BRITISH occupied India from the hands of Muslims. Although Indian public including Hindus resisted British power in the beginning, a special interest group of high class Hindu with the support of British Raj emerged. They made Muslims’ social and religious life miserable. The attack on Islam, its culture, practices and its respected personalities from Western orientalists and new Hindu revivalists became rampant.