Next time you sit on a plane, look at the clock, go to the opticians or do some maths remember it is Muslims who invented and discovered these.

Flight

What we are told: The first mention of man in flight was by Roger Bacon & Leonardo da Vinci who drew flying apparatus?

Well... Actually Ibn Firnas of Spain constructed & tested a flying machine in 800A.D. (1) Roger Bacon & Leonardo da Vinci studied this work and copied it 700 years later.

Clocks

By Felicity Arbuthnot, Baghdad 26 January 2005

Registration for expatriate Iraqis to vote in the Iraq elections began on Monday in fourteen countries - Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Jordan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States - and runs until January 23.

However, according to a renowned expert on international law, Sabah Al-Mukhtar, the London-based president of the League of Arab Lawyers, the election is not only fatally flawed, it is illegal.

6 January 2005, AI Index: AMR 510022005

Imagine this: Hundreds of US nationals are picked up around the world by a foreign government fighting a "war for national security".

The government in question is reacting to evidence that a recent bombing on its territory which left thousands of civilians dead was instigated by a shadowy network based in the United States.

The detainees, according to evidence the detaining power says it has but refuses to reveal, are in some way associated with this network. The detainees, a few of them children, are strapped, shackled and blindfolded, into transport planes.

Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar.

Muharram means "Forbidden." Even before Islam, this month was always known as a scared month in which all unlawful acts were forbidden, prominently the shedding of blood. It is one of the four sanctified months about which Allah Ta'ala says: "The number of months in the sight of Allah are twelve, so ordained by Allah, the day He created the heavens and the earth; Of them four are sacred. That is the correct religion, so wrong not yourselves therein." (Surah Tawbah - verse 36)

12 August 2004

The deputy governor of the restive Iraqi city of Najaf resigned on Thursday, August 12, in protest at the 'terrorist' acts of the US occupation forces as deadly raids into the holy city has left hundreds of Shiite fighters and civilians killed.

Jawdat Kazem Al-Kurashi said in a statement carried by Aljazeera satellite channel that he could not wait and see his homeland and Shiite holy shrines being desecrated by US forces.

"I strongly condemn such terrorist acts [of the US forces], which badly damaged our holy city and killed hundreds of civilians," he said.

Kuwait has banned Michael Moore's controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, calling the film insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family.

Authorities in Kuwait, a US ally, also objected to the film's criticism of America's invasion of Iraq.

"We have a law that prohibits insulting friendly nations," said Abdul-Aziz Bou Dastour of the Information Ministry.

The controversy over Fahrenheit 9/11 has helped it break box office records for a documentary.

The film, which won the Cannes Film Festival, was the first documentary to make $100m (£54.5m) in North America.

It criticises President George Bush for being unprepared for the 11 September attacks and using propaganda to gain public support.

How the books that you read can be used against you in a way similar to the Thought Police in George Orwell’s novel, 1984.

Many Muslims who have been arrested under the Terrorism Act, have been charged with possession of materials - materials that are widely available in bookshops, web sites and even your local newsagent.

The law as it stands prohibits possession of material that is likely to be “of benefit to terrorists”. So what would you assume that means?

By Severin Carrell, 1 August 2004

The Army has paid out £390 to the family of an eight-year-old Iraqi girl who was killed after being hit by a bullet fired by a British soldier, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

Hanan Saleh Matrud died in an alleyway near her home in northern Basra after a British soldier with the King's Regiment opened fire nearby. The ricocheting bullet left a deep wound across her stomach, and she later died in hospital.

The soldiers claim they fired a warning shot in the air after being targeted by "heavy stone-throwing" by mobs. Local eyewitnesses dispute the claim, and allege that only children were in the streets.