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Babar Ahmed has been extradited

Human rights, liberties, freedom? Yeah, they all exist(!)

"My unjust extradition, after eight years in detention without charge"
http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/04/babar-ahmad-extraditio...

I don't understand. Is there any reason (excuse) at all, for this?!! Why would anyone who has committed a crime here be sent to the US? :S

Turkey bombs Syria

Quote:
Turkish artillery has fired on positions inside Syria after shells from Syria killed five people in a southern Turkish border town.

A woman and her three children were among those killed earlier when the shells, apparently fired by Syrian government forces, hit Akcakale.

Turkey's response marks the first time it has fired into Syria during the 18-month-long uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Nato ambassadors discussed the crisis.

Cyber War?

just coming across some stuff about cyber war becoming quite the next war.

yahoo article: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/cybergeddon-cyber-war-is-going-on-around-us.html

 

In 2011, U.S. government accounts were penetrated by hackers in China, after their Google Mail accounts were hacked. The targeting of government officials led many to suspect the Chinese government was involved - and the attacks originated in Jinan, home of the Chinese army’s ‘Technical Reconnaissance Bureaus.’

'Blaming these misdeeds on China is unacceptable,' said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei after the attacks.

104 Year Old Syrian Scholar passes away in Damascus

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون ولا حول ولا قوه الا بالله العلي العظيم

It is with extreme sadness that I inform you that one of our elders and Shouyoukh has passed into the mercy of Allah. 

Shaikh al-zahid Abu Hussain Badr al-Jawbarani from the District of Jawbar in Damascus was born in the year 1328 AH corresponding to 1910 AD and passed away on the 21 September 2012 at the age of 104.

http://forum.cordobaacademy.com/2012/09/23/passing-away-shaikh-abu-hussa...

The Blessed Hub - A New Community Initiative

The Blessed Hub is basically a new dedicated online service for the Muslim community and beyond. Set up by two passionate brothers from Manchester, to help create a platform of information, networking, love and unity amongst Muslims in Manchester and beyond. Providing access to scholars, mosques, bloggers, events, places to eat, online classes, meetings etc. Seeking to make a difference for the community, it's a website for everyone and anyone. 

The opening of the largest Islamic art gallery in Europe - Louvre opens new wing 10 years in the making

The Louvre Museum in Paris is opening a new wing dedicated to the art of Islam. It has taken a decade and nearly 100m euro (£80m) and comes to fruition amid tensions between the Muslim world and the West.

This is the most significant and innovative architectural extension to the Louvre since IM Pei shook the venerable institution with his glass pyramid in 1989.   

 

Read all about it: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19672951

Campaign to ban page 3 from the sun

I don't read this trashy paper I came across it at work once in the staff room. News lacks depth, and there's porn inside. porn should be on the top shelf. We say we're the most civilised country in the world, this is the nations most read paper, what does it say about their morals when they accept this as just a bit of ' harmless' fun. I wouldn't want my kids seeing it, I wouldn't want to see a man looking at page 3 on the bus, I'd get up and move its disgusting, disturbing even to normalise it. I mean its not a regular occurrence to see men reading playboy on public transport, why coz its porn, they know society looks down on it, so why any difference with page 3?

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