Archive for December, 2005
sisters and daughters for sale?
Are our sisters and daughters for sale? When will the horrors of dowry and bride-burning end?, asks Himendra Thakur June 1999:
Doesn’t the love of one’s country include love for one’s countrymen? Or is it merely a fashionable thing, patriotism merely to find pride in something but not to actually strive towards a better nation? A [...]keeping April Glaspie under wraps?
Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps?
By: Kaleem Omar on: 25.12.2005 [16:51 ] (154 reads)It is now more than fifteen years since that fateful meeting on July 25, 1990 between then-US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and President Saddam Hussein that the Iraqi leader interpreted as a green light from Washington [...]
The story of Bismillah
bismillahir Rehmaanir Raheem
He had only two dirhams in his pocket, and no other possession.
Bashar bin Harith gave the two dirhams to a perfumer and asked him to provide the best perfume he had. The fragrance was indeed refreshing to his whole existence. Bashar left the perfumery, and sat down comfortably in a corner, took out [...]US monitors radiation in mosques!
I would say it is a very welcome service.
The cost of installing radiation monitors, and staffing for regular checks must be considerable.
It is very thoughtful of the US to think of radiation mnitoring for its Muslim inhabitants. It might jsut be discriminatory, and I expect that people of other faiths would bring in a [...]How to have your cake, and eat it, too
a very interesting piece of legislation!
bans torture, specifically.
wow! really. That is great.
However, do not as yet jump with joy for human rights, for
there is a catch.
No, the CIA is not exempted.
But there still is a catch.
“If the US does torture, the victims have no [...]