Friday, December 17, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
The New Wagnerian
With characteristic decisiveness, Ian Dallas opens his next work, 'The New Wagnerian':
He writes: "Do not be put off by Wagner's bitterly sarcastic critics, or perhaps, yes, do be put off. If you view life as they do, and envy vastness of spirit and profundity of meditative reflection on existence and nature, and surrender to the erotic drive, yes, do turn away. Wagner is not for you."
Once again the book has several layers. Firstly it is an appreciation of the man and his music. It is also the portrait of a visionary ahead of his time, and the social questions which he tackled. And it is a signpost to something beyond Wagner himself. Dallas quotes the great composer thus:
"'Revolution alone can give me the artists and audiences I need.'" Dallas continues: "He said he would convey in his works the meaning of their revolution in its noblest form. Then, he insisted, there would be an audience which could understand him, for his contemporaries could not."
There are far too many different aspects to The New Wagnerian to cover here, but in analysing 'The Ring' he discusses how Wagner depicts the different archetypes of Coupledom, a subject which I shall come to in more detail.
from Ian Dallas - Collected Works - An Appreciation : The New Wagnerian, The Book of Strangers, The Gestalt of Freedom (By a British convert to Islam)
By Sidi Abdassabur Kirke
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657325/posts - 31k - Similar pages
He writes: "Do not be put off by Wagner's bitterly sarcastic critics, or perhaps, yes, do be put off. If you view life as they do, and envy vastness of spirit and profundity of meditative reflection on existence and nature, and surrender to the erotic drive, yes, do turn away. Wagner is not for you."
Once again the book has several layers. Firstly it is an appreciation of the man and his music. It is also the portrait of a visionary ahead of his time, and the social questions which he tackled. And it is a signpost to something beyond Wagner himself. Dallas quotes the great composer thus:
"'Revolution alone can give me the artists and audiences I need.'" Dallas continues: "He said he would convey in his works the meaning of their revolution in its noblest form. Then, he insisted, there would be an audience which could understand him, for his contemporaries could not."
There are far too many different aspects to The New Wagnerian to cover here, but in analysing 'The Ring' he discusses how Wagner depicts the different archetypes of Coupledom, a subject which I shall come to in more detail.
from Ian Dallas - Collected Works - An Appreciation : The New Wagnerian, The Book of Strangers, The Gestalt of Freedom (By a British convert to Islam)
By Sidi Abdassabur Kirke
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657325/posts - 31k - Similar pages
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
LOWER MANHATTAN
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
LOWER MANHATTAN — The proposed mosque near Ground Zero is about to get some competition.
Bill Keller, a televangelist from Florida, announced Monday that he is building a $1 million Christian center in lower Manhattan in response to the Cordoba Initiative’s plans for a 13-story mosque and community center there.
Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20100713/manhattan/christian-evangelical-center-plans-compete-with-ground-zero-mosque##ixzz0vaHCk2UQ
LOWER MANHATTAN — The proposed mosque near Ground Zero is about to get some competition.
Bill Keller, a televangelist from Florida, announced Monday that he is building a $1 million Christian center in lower Manhattan in response to the Cordoba Initiative’s plans for a 13-story mosque and community center there.
Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20100713/manhattan/christian-evangelical-center-plans-compete-with-ground-zero-mosque##ixzz0vaHCk2UQ
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Ground Zero
Jewish group says putting a mosque near Ground Zero will cause 'more pain'
Saturday, July 31, 2010
NEW YORK
Putting mosque near Ground Zero is 'not right'
The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group opposes the planned mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the location is "counterproductive to the healing process."
The Anti-Defamation League said it rejects any opposition to the center based on bigotry and acknowledged that the group behind the plan, the Cordoba Initiative, has the legal right to build at the site. But the ADL said "some legitimate questions have been raised" about funding and possible ties with "groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values."
"Ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right," the ADL said in a statement. "In our judgment, building an Islamic center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain -- unnecessarily -- and that is not right." The Cordoba Initiative did not comment Friday.
The mosque and community center would be located two blocks from the Lower Manhattan site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
www.washingtonpost.com
Saturday, July 31, 2010
NEW YORK
Putting mosque near Ground Zero is 'not right'
The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group opposes the planned mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the project and the location is "counterproductive to the healing process."
The Anti-Defamation League said it rejects any opposition to the center based on bigotry and acknowledged that the group behind the plan, the Cordoba Initiative, has the legal right to build at the site. But the ADL said "some legitimate questions have been raised" about funding and possible ties with "groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values."
"Ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right," the ADL said in a statement. "In our judgment, building an Islamic center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain -- unnecessarily -- and that is not right." The Cordoba Initiative did not comment Friday.
The mosque and community center would be located two blocks from the Lower Manhattan site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
www.washingtonpost.com
Reinheidsgebod
Namibia's capital city, Windhoek, is a clean, modern city rising up from the desert. It has all the usual facilities - golf courses, restaurants, shopping and good hotels. Namibia was a German colony, and many of the smaller towns still retain a Teutonic flavour, particularly Swakopmund and Lüderitz on the Atlantic coast. As well as the European-style buildings, you'll find lots of German restaurants and pubs. And - of course - Namibia makes the best beer in Africa, which is most definitely as a result of its German heritage. All Namibian beer conforms to the German Reinheidsgebod (purity law) of 1516. Germans don't muck about when it comes to making (or drinking) beer.
www.deovilla.com
www.deovilla.com
Friday, July 30, 2010
Bournemouth Mosque
Picket against DPP – Solidarity with Ian Tomlinson’s Family EDL members arrested over Bournemouth mosque bomb plot fears
ARMED police opened fire during an operation to arrest members of the controversial far-right English Defence League, who were feared to be masterminding an attack at a Bournemouth mosque.
Marksmen shot the tyres out on a van belonging to John Broomfield, who describes himself as Dorset EDL head, as he drove alone through Corfe Castle.
He and six others were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause an explosion at a Bournemouth mosque.
All seven, including at least six EDL members, have since been released without charge.
Armed officers pounced from an unmarked car close to the Norden roundabout as 27-year-old Mr Broomfield, from Swanage, drove home from work around 5pm.
They used special rapid tyre deflation rounds, fired from a shotgun, to disable his vehicle.
Officers, including specialised forensic experts, then swooped on his Bell Street home, removing clothes, computer equipment, mobile phones and passports.
The suspects were held at Poole police station and a police station in Southampton, following last Thursday’s arrests.
The English Defence League is a contentious group that has been leading “anti-Muslim extremism” demonstrations around England since 2009.
Thousands of people have attended its protests – many of which have involved racist and Islamophobic chanting.
However, organisers insist it is not a racist organisation.
A number of violent clashes have also taken place at EDL demonstrations since the group first emerged in Luton last year.
In a statement to the Daily Echo, Mr Broomfield said: “While travelling home from work I was stopped and arrested by armed police. I was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause an explosion at a Bournemouth mosque.
“Five other members of the EDL were also arrested and held for 24 hours for questioning while searches of their homes took place. Then all of us were released without charge.
“There has been no conspiracy.
“There has never been any conspiracy. The EDL is not a terrorist organisation.”
A spokesman for Dorset Police said: “Dorset Police can confirm that as part of an investigation surrounding threats to a Bournemouth mosque a total of seven people were arrested for conspiracy to cause an explosion.
“Following an investigation police can now confirm these people have been released without charge.
“We can also confirm that one of the people arrested was detained safely by armed officers in the Corfe Castle area.
“We’ve been working very closely with the Muslim community since last Thursday and our local safer neighbourhood teams have been providing advice and reassurance throughout.
“At this stage there is no indication whatsoever that any of the mosques in Dorset are under threat of attack.”
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8293728.EDL_members_arrested_over_Bournemouth_mosque_bomb_plot_fears/?ref=mr
ARMED police opened fire during an operation to arrest members of the controversial far-right English Defence League, who were feared to be masterminding an attack at a Bournemouth mosque.
Marksmen shot the tyres out on a van belonging to John Broomfield, who describes himself as Dorset EDL head, as he drove alone through Corfe Castle.
He and six others were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause an explosion at a Bournemouth mosque.
All seven, including at least six EDL members, have since been released without charge.
Armed officers pounced from an unmarked car close to the Norden roundabout as 27-year-old Mr Broomfield, from Swanage, drove home from work around 5pm.
They used special rapid tyre deflation rounds, fired from a shotgun, to disable his vehicle.
Officers, including specialised forensic experts, then swooped on his Bell Street home, removing clothes, computer equipment, mobile phones and passports.
The suspects were held at Poole police station and a police station in Southampton, following last Thursday’s arrests.
The English Defence League is a contentious group that has been leading “anti-Muslim extremism” demonstrations around England since 2009.
Thousands of people have attended its protests – many of which have involved racist and Islamophobic chanting.
However, organisers insist it is not a racist organisation.
A number of violent clashes have also taken place at EDL demonstrations since the group first emerged in Luton last year.
In a statement to the Daily Echo, Mr Broomfield said: “While travelling home from work I was stopped and arrested by armed police. I was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause an explosion at a Bournemouth mosque.
“Five other members of the EDL were also arrested and held for 24 hours for questioning while searches of their homes took place. Then all of us were released without charge.
“There has been no conspiracy.
“There has never been any conspiracy. The EDL is not a terrorist organisation.”
A spokesman for Dorset Police said: “Dorset Police can confirm that as part of an investigation surrounding threats to a Bournemouth mosque a total of seven people were arrested for conspiracy to cause an explosion.
“Following an investigation police can now confirm these people have been released without charge.
“We can also confirm that one of the people arrested was detained safely by armed officers in the Corfe Castle area.
“We’ve been working very closely with the Muslim community since last Thursday and our local safer neighbourhood teams have been providing advice and reassurance throughout.
“At this stage there is no indication whatsoever that any of the mosques in Dorset are under threat of attack.”
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8293728.EDL_members_arrested_over_Bournemouth_mosque_bomb_plot_fears/?ref=mr
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Bastille Day
Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is called "Fête Nationale" ("National Holiday"), in official parlance, or more commonly "quatorze juillet" ("14 July"). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.
http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1982&sid=5c5f26acd16be3de41c42b6ca661269b
http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1982&sid=5c5f26acd16be3de41c42b6ca661269b
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Hyderabad
Hyderabad (City of Nizams/Pearls) has developed into a major hub for the information technology industry in India. Madhapur and the HITEC city are the center of the IT boom in the region. It is the capital of biotechnology and pharmaceutics of the country. The city houses the most costly residential real estate in Andhra Pradesh in the posh Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills.
The city is home to the world's largest film studio, the Ramoji Film City...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad,_India
The city is home to the world's largest film studio, the Ramoji Film City...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad,_India
Monday, July 5, 2010
GMOs & Consumer Protection Act
South Africa’s food shelves are stocked with hundreds of products that contain Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).These are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
Section 24(4) of the CPA (Consumer Protection Act) states that the Minister of Trade and Industry can stipulate categories of “prescribed goods”to be labelled under the CPA, these include “anything marketed for human consumption”.The CPA provides for the indication of the presence of GM ingredients in certain foodstuff through appropriate description on the packaging.
These provisions require Regulations to be drafted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).Toensure that our rights are protected we call upon all consumers to write to Mr Andisa Potwana at DTI, LAPotwana@thedti.gov.za to support of the following recommendations:That the range of prescribed goods should include the following:• All ingredients in packaged food products that are derived from GM crops (whether or not itcontains any traces of GM materials);• Highly processed products derived from GM ingredients;• Additives and flavourings;• Meat and animal products fed with GM feed;• Food sold by caterers and restaurants and• Unpackaged foods.Further:• Labels should apply to all products that are genetically modified.• A maximum threshold level of 1% should be permitted to allow for the accidental or technically unavoidable GM content.• Products that are produced deliberately and directly using GM processes or have GM content, mustbe clearly labelled as ‘produced using genetic modification’;• A product should only be labelled ‘may contain genetically modified ingredients’ or ‘may be produced using processes of genetic modification’ in circumstances where they contain ingredients that may have come from a GM process and it is not known or feasible to test whether they are GM-free.• GM labelling regulations must define the way the terminology is used and the way it is applied.• Restaurants and food sold direct to the public must clearly indicate any GM content.• Labelling requirements must apply to both local and imported foods and ingredients.• Labelling should include balanced information about the possible adverse effects on human and environmental health.• The biotechnology corporations and the producers who have adopted them have benefited mostfrom GM technology and should bear the costs of segregation, testing and labelling.
The issue of a democratic food system that can provide safe, nutritious and affordable food for all is no less urgent!The information in this fact sheet was taken from the ACB briefing paper:‘Traceability, segregation and labelling of genetically modified products in South Africa’. Available at:http://www.biosafetyafrica.org.za/images/stories/dmdocuments/ACB_Policy_Labelling-201005.pdfFor more information on GMOs in South Africa please visit:www.biosafetyafrica.org.zahttp://www.biowatch.org.za/http://www.safeage.org/
Section 24(4) of the CPA (Consumer Protection Act) states that the Minister of Trade and Industry can stipulate categories of “prescribed goods”to be labelled under the CPA, these include “anything marketed for human consumption”.The CPA provides for the indication of the presence of GM ingredients in certain foodstuff through appropriate description on the packaging.
These provisions require Regulations to be drafted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).Toensure that our rights are protected we call upon all consumers to write to Mr Andisa Potwana at DTI, LAPotwana@thedti.gov.za to support of the following recommendations:That the range of prescribed goods should include the following:• All ingredients in packaged food products that are derived from GM crops (whether or not itcontains any traces of GM materials);• Highly processed products derived from GM ingredients;• Additives and flavourings;• Meat and animal products fed with GM feed;• Food sold by caterers and restaurants and• Unpackaged foods.Further:• Labels should apply to all products that are genetically modified.• A maximum threshold level of 1% should be permitted to allow for the accidental or technically unavoidable GM content.• Products that are produced deliberately and directly using GM processes or have GM content, mustbe clearly labelled as ‘produced using genetic modification’;• A product should only be labelled ‘may contain genetically modified ingredients’ or ‘may be produced using processes of genetic modification’ in circumstances where they contain ingredients that may have come from a GM process and it is not known or feasible to test whether they are GM-free.• GM labelling regulations must define the way the terminology is used and the way it is applied.• Restaurants and food sold direct to the public must clearly indicate any GM content.• Labelling requirements must apply to both local and imported foods and ingredients.• Labelling should include balanced information about the possible adverse effects on human and environmental health.• The biotechnology corporations and the producers who have adopted them have benefited mostfrom GM technology and should bear the costs of segregation, testing and labelling.
The issue of a democratic food system that can provide safe, nutritious and affordable food for all is no less urgent!The information in this fact sheet was taken from the ACB briefing paper:‘Traceability, segregation and labelling of genetically modified products in South Africa’. Available at:http://www.biosafetyafrica.org.za/images/stories/dmdocuments/ACB_Policy_Labelling-201005.pdfFor more information on GMOs in South Africa please visit:www.biosafetyafrica.org.zahttp://www.biowatch.org.za/http://www.safeage.org/
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Philanthro-Imperialism
Sherry-Lee Abrahams, Associate Program Officer for the Bill& Melinda Gates
Foundation, along with Jake Walter, Country Director – Mozambique for
TechnoServe, will outline a new Soy Value Chain Development Project for
Africa during the final session of Soy Innovation Africa, which will be held
August 26-27, 2010 at the Westin Grand in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.soyatech.com/userfiles/image/SoyAfrica2010/mark_messina.gif
Visit soyatechevents.com for information on these other Soyatech-produced conferences:
Soya & Oilseed Summit Global Soybean & Grain Transport 2010 Soyfoods2011 Global AgInvesting Europe
Foundation, along with Jake Walter, Country Director – Mozambique for
TechnoServe, will outline a new Soy Value Chain Development Project for
Africa during the final session of Soy Innovation Africa, which will be held
August 26-27, 2010 at the Westin Grand in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.soyatech.com/userfiles/image/SoyAfrica2010/mark_messina.gif
Visit soyatechevents.com for information on these other Soyatech-produced conferences:
Soya & Oilseed Summit Global Soybean & Grain Transport 2010 Soyfoods2011 Global AgInvesting Europe
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Oud
Often seen as the predecessor of the western lute, distinguished primarily by being without frets, commonly used in Middle Eastern music, the words "lute" and "Oud" are both speculated to be derived from Arabic العود (al-ʿūd).
The Oud was most likely introduced to Western Europe by the Arabs who established the Umayyad Caliphate of Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula beginning in the year 711 AD.
According to Farabi, the oud was invented by Lamech, the sixth grandson of Adam. The legend tells that the grieving Lamech hung the body of his dead son from a tree. The first oud was inspired by the shape of his son's bleached skeleton...
http://www.classicalarabicmusic.com/Musical%20Instruments/Oud.htm
The Oud was most likely introduced to Western Europe by the Arabs who established the Umayyad Caliphate of Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula beginning in the year 711 AD.
According to Farabi, the oud was invented by Lamech, the sixth grandson of Adam. The legend tells that the grieving Lamech hung the body of his dead son from a tree. The first oud was inspired by the shape of his son's bleached skeleton...
http://www.classicalarabicmusic.com/Musical%20Instruments/Oud.htm
Monday, June 21, 2010
SANi
SANi (South African Nanotech Initiative) - was initiated through the initiative of some members of the science community with an interest in nanotechnology. The call for participation and promise of support, by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), in the European Community Framework Programme 6 offered the opportunity for the first meeting of interested parties, called by Dr Malik Maaza and Dr Phil Mjwara, on 14 May 2002 at the University of the Witwatersrand. From this day SANi has evolved into an initiative that spans South Africa...
http://www.sani.org.za/
http://www.sani.org.za/
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Busi Mhlongo - We Baba Omncane live@Nantes & Roskilde
Maskanda (or maskandi) is a kind of Zulu folk music that is evolving with South African society. Ethekwini Online describes it as "The music played by the man on the move, the modern minstrel, today’s troubadour. It is the music of the man walking the long miles to court a bride, or to meet with his Chief; a means of transport. It is the music of the man who sings of his real life experiences, his daily joys and sorrows, his observations of the world. It’s the music of the man who’s got the Zulu blues."
Nowadays this is untrue in as much as it is no longer just the domain of men. African women - notably, Busi Mhlongo (October 28, 1947 - June 15, 2010), are also making maskanda music...
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-06-18-subverting-and-owning-maskanda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maskanda
NGOisation
"The capital available to NGO's plays the same role in alternative politics as the speculative capital that flows in and out of the economies of the poor countries. It begins to dictate the agenda. It turns confrontation into negotiation. It depoliticises resistance. It interferes with local peoples' movements that have traditionally been self-reliant...The 'NGOisation' of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-5 job. With a few perks thrown in."
Arhundati Roy - San Francisco 2004.
Arhundati Roy - San Francisco 2004.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
A Ribat (From the Arabic رباط ribāṭ, hospice, hostel.) is an Arabic term for a small fortification as built along a frontier during the first years of the Muslim conquest of North Africa to house military volunteers, called the Murabitun. These fortifications later served to protect commercial routes, and as centers for isolated Muslim communities.
In time, ribats became hostels for voyagers on major trade routes (Caravanserai) and refuges for mystics. In this last sense, the ribat tradition was perhaps one of the early sources of the Sufi mystic brotherhoods, and a type of the later zaouia or Sufi lodge, which spread into North Africa and from there across the Sahara to West Africa. Here the homes of marabouts (religious teachers, usually Sufi) are termed ribats. Such places of spiritual reteat were termed Khanqah in Persian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribat
In time, ribats became hostels for voyagers on major trade routes (Caravanserai) and refuges for mystics. In this last sense, the ribat tradition was perhaps one of the early sources of the Sufi mystic brotherhoods, and a type of the later zaouia or Sufi lodge, which spread into North Africa and from there across the Sahara to West Africa. Here the homes of marabouts (religious teachers, usually Sufi) are termed ribats. Such places of spiritual reteat were termed Khanqah in Persian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribat
Sunday, May 30, 2010
QURAN
S II V 219
They ask thee
Concerning wine and
gambling.
Say : "In them is great sin,
And some profit for men ;
But the sin is greater
Than the profit."
They ask thee how much
They are to spend ;
Say : "What is beyond
Your needs."
Thus does God
Make clear to you
His signs : in order that
Ye may consider -
220
(Their bearings) on
This life and the Hereafter.
They ask thee
Concerning wine and
gambling.
Say : "In them is great sin,
And some profit for men ;
But the sin is greater
Than the profit."
They ask thee how much
They are to spend ;
Say : "What is beyond
Your needs."
Thus does God
Make clear to you
His signs : in order that
Ye may consider -
220
(Their bearings) on
This life and the Hereafter.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Puritanism
Another aspect of the religious reform is its personal morality: puritanism. This morality places the isolated individual deprived of leadership at the centre of the decision-making or moral judgement. This way of thinking implies a fundamental shift in the approach to the fiqh. When the individual has to decide in isolation, automatically it puts all social issues out of reach. For example, the issue of the restoration of the Dinar and the Dirham, seen from the perspective of the individual, is a non-issue since it requires a whole community for it to be applied. Thus personal morality means that most social issues are abandoned, especially those that carry the highest political or economic weight (equal to their importance). Only the individual belonging to the jama’a can act in these matters and for that, once more the figure of the leader, the Amir becomes necessary.
Conference Papers
Priorities in the Fiqh and the Muamalat
by Umar Ibrahim Vadillo
From the 8th International Fiqh Conference held in Pretoria,
South Africa on the 18-20 October 2003
18/10/2003
http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/articles/Art006_21022004.html
Another aspect of the religious reform is its personal morality: puritanism. This morality places the isolated individual deprived of leadership at the centre of the decision-making or moral judgement. This way of thinking implies a fundamental shift in the approach to the fiqh. When the individual has to decide in isolation, automatically it puts all social issues out of reach. For example, the issue of the restoration of the Dinar and the Dirham, seen from the perspective of the individual, is a non-issue since it requires a whole community for it to be applied. Thus personal morality means that most social issues are abandoned, especially those that carry the highest political or economic weight (equal to their importance). Only the individual belonging to the jama’a can act in these matters and for that, once more the figure of the leader, the Amir becomes necessary.
Conference Papers
Priorities in the Fiqh and the Muamalat
by Umar Ibrahim Vadillo
From the 8th International Fiqh Conference held in Pretoria,
South Africa on the 18-20 October 2003
18/10/2003
http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/articles/Art006_21022004.html
Friday, May 14, 2010
The GM Issue
The genetic modification of plants as an issue has proved one of the cleverest instruments of transformation by the banking élite. What it veils from the masses is that land is passing from private (farmers’) hands to that of Corporations operating on the other side of the world. The G.M. issue has to resolve itself under the absolutism of the modern, yet the antique selfishness of the land grab will have been brilliantly hidden.
The Time of the Bedouin - on the politics of power, p61, Ian Dallas, Budgate Press 2006
The Time of the Bedouin - on the politics of power, p61, Ian Dallas, Budgate Press 2006
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Codex Conference - Institute for Responsible Technology
Codex Conference - Institute for Responsible Technology
Action Alert - Codex Conference
Please send this URGENT message to US Government leaders to protect your right to know which foods are made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Send an email today to the Secretaries of State (Clinton), Agriculture (Vilsack), and Health and Human Services (Sebelius).
They must stop US negotiators at an international (Codex) conference from May 3-7, from pushing an agenda that could make it difficult for anyone, anywhere in the world to label foods as genetically modified (GM) food—or even make non-GMO claims on their product’s label.
Action Alert - Codex Conference
Please send this URGENT message to US Government leaders to protect your right to know which foods are made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Send an email today to the Secretaries of State (Clinton), Agriculture (Vilsack), and Health and Human Services (Sebelius).
They must stop US negotiators at an international (Codex) conference from May 3-7, from pushing an agenda that could make it difficult for anyone, anywhere in the world to label foods as genetically modified (GM) food—or even make non-GMO claims on their product’s label.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The new Aristocracy will stem from what Ibn Khaldun calls the ‘Bedouin’ – not desert Arabs, but peoples not tied into a settled social order. They will embody those qualities upon which all legitimate Aristocracies have always been based: nobility, concern for others, and Divinely revealed religion.
news.book.co.za/.../book-launch-the-time-of-the-bedouin-by-ian-dallas/
news.book.co.za/.../book-launch-the-time-of-the-bedouin-by-ian-dallas/
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "By the One in whose hand my soul is, you will not enter the Garden until you submit.
You will not submit until you love one another.
Extend the greeting to one another and you will love one another.
Beware of hatred, for it is the ra...zor.
I do not tell you that it shaves the hair, but it shaves away the deen." - "Al-Adab al-Mufrad " IMAM BUKHARIS
Monday, May 3, 2010
"The internal crisis inside the U.S.A. is irretrievable. Even ending its wars will not bring rescue. Its near future will be hispanic, and one hopes, finally, Navaho!"
Muslims and the Collapse of the Political Class 01/05/2010www.shaykhabdalqadir.com
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