Ireland To Gaza

Well folks, the great news to report to you all is that the “Viva Palestina” Humanitarian Aid Convoy safely reached Gaza and delivered all their aid. On January 6th, 517 humanitarians from 20 countries, in close to 200 vehicles, crossed through the Rafah Border into Gaza. The scenes greeting us as we made our way to Gaza city were unbelievable. Over 100,000 lined the roads and streets as we took 3 hours to drive 20 kilometres. They had waited patiently on us for us for weeks, and their outpouring of excitement and gratitude was the most humbling experience in my life. They are the real heroes, not us.

MQI UK's Response to the March in Wootton Bassett
Dated: 05 January 2010
LONDON. Minhaj-ul-Quran International UK (MQI UK) has expressed deep concern over the announcement by an extremist group to hold a march at Wooton Basset. MQI UK's spokesperson Shahid Mursaleen said that this group is known to consist of members who are known extremists and trouble makers including their leader Anjem Choudary.

"We strongly condemns the announcement by an extremist group to go ahead with the planned march at Wootton Bassett. Minhaj-ul-Quran pays tribute to the dead British soldiers, " he said.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey.

Picture taken by Trinidad-News.com and made available through flickr under the Creative commons attribution 2.0 Generic licence.

Former Archbishop George Carey wants to limit immigration in order to protect this country’s Christian heritage and restrain the far right. Yet it is his jaundiced view of the state of this country that gives comfort and succour to the bigots and racists.

Rather than looking honestly at issues of integration, extremism and community cohesion, he repeats misconceptions about immigrants and yearns for an unattainable, simpler, imagined past. It is his prescription of curbs on immigration, curbs on the rights of immigrants, curbs on the expression of immigrant culture, and, crucially, limits on population size that will help not hinder the nightmare future of a Britain ruled by dogmatic extremists.

Picture taken on 16 September 2005 by Matthew Emirzian. and made available to Wkipedia under the GNU Free Document licence 1.2 or later.

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This film is one of 21 such short films on the topic of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the series titled 'Durood'.

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As 2009 comes to an end the new year of 2010 approaches and a new decade. The lasy year im sure for everyone had brought changes some for the better and some not so good but may Allah grant us all happiness and success in the new year of 2010 and indeed always.ameen.

the year of 2009 brought changes for me in more way than one. one progressing onto university, something which made my parents very happy lol 'their first child goes to uni', parents...may Allah have mercy upon them and give them happiness.mother and father most important people in my life and iA i will try harder not to forget << new years resolution ...maybe lol

So there I was clicking next on the random phrases thing.

And this came up:

A wise man makes his own decisions, a weak man obeys the public opinion.

- A Chinese proverb.

So...what are your thoughts on that?

I liked it...

"God leads astray those he will"

I was just thinking about that because of the Yazid topic.

So i researched it and found this site: http://unveilingislam.org/7God-notAstray7.html

It's pretty good, but i'll just take the best points and add my own.

“We sent not a messenger except (to teach) in the language of his (own) people, in order to
make (things) clear to them. So Allah leads astray those whom He pleases and guides whom
He pleases and He is exalted in power, full of wisdom.” (surah 14:4) page 31

Well the site says that it's actually been misinterpreted if we take that to mean that Allah leads some people purposefully away and that actually it's not about THAT but about finding people to have gone astray.