The government will not fulfil its vow to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands by 2015, the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank says.

It predicts net migration - the difference between the number of people entering and leaving the UK - will fall to 180,000 in 2012, from its 2010 peak of 252,000.

But reductions cannot be sustained at the current pace, it says.

The government insists its policies are working and the target will be met.

We've limited non-EU workers coming to the UK, overhauled the student visa system and will shortly announce reforms of the family migration and settlement routes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16372717

Just something a person who pretends to have once been Muslim keeps going on about - ancestry.

His view is that since Islam was revealed in Arabia, people elsewhere should not believe it.

He also mentions how many Muslim personalities from the past were not Pakistani (lets pretend to forget that even my gran is older than pakistan... and that we are not in Pakistan).

But what he fails to realise (mainly because he is a full on retard) is that what matters is what we do, not what others do or what others have done in the past.

I will be accountable for my actions and my actions alone.

In the same way, when it comes to heritage, while you can draw links to many places in many ways, what matters is what you learn from it.

You learn from the good, leave the bad and you try to be good people.

That is what good - not the backwards minded and cultural views of some which say that their ancestors did something wrong, so they must also do that same thing.

In Islam sin does not pass from one person to another.

So my 13 year old sister asked me to speak to my parents about home schooling her. She tells me she just doesn't like the environment at school. It's not that everybody's a bad influence at school but the majority are bound by almost no rules.

My older sister thinks it's a bad idea for her to be away from other girls her age and that it may have a bad affect on her in the future and i think my dad pretty much agrees.

I haven't yet discussed this with my dad as i don't know what's best atm. I do need to talk to him soon or my lil sis is gonna kill me.

IMO home schooling has it's positives and negatives...unlike some i don't agree that it cuts her off from society completely.

I would just tell her to stick it out for the time being and wait till high school's over but she's really adament to leave and soon.

Anyway what do you guy think?

Thanks for reading 🙂 and i'd appreciate it if people stuck to the topic 😉 not just about my sisters situation but muslim youth in general.

People have to remember that our muslim youth aren't perfect

Anyone heard of this hadith?

[Narrated 'Aisha] "The verse of the stoning and of suckling an adult ten times were revealed, and they were (written) on a paper and kept under my bed. When the messenger of Allah expired and we were preoccupied with his death, a goat entered and ate away the paper."
Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal. vol. 6. p. 269; Sunan Ibn Majah, p. 626; Ibn Qutbah, Tawil Mukhtalafi 'l-Hadith

I was guessing it's fabricated but someone said Sunnis believe in it. Not really someone I could trust... but yeah has anyone heard of it and the explanation given about it?

Just want to mention that for congregation prayer, rows start at the middle.

The only time it should start at a side is if it is the last row that is against a wall and the entrance to the hall is to a side - in which case starting in the middle could constrict other people from getting into the row past the people in the middle.

Otherwise it starts in the middle.

Secondly, the second adhaan at jum'ah is part of the khutbah. Unlike normal adhaan where there are set responses etc that people can read in response to all the calls, this is not the case when it is a part of khutbah, when people should listen attentively.

If someone else is responding to the adhaan, let them as you are not supposed to break your listening attentively to warn others here either.

A question can sometimes be asked - if we are all individuals with individual needs, thoughts and lives, why is prayer a ritual which we all adhere to in a similar fashion?

There are small differences in how to pray that people use, but overall, the main fardh actions are the same and all the different forms of prayer are recogniseable as forms of prayer.

So where is the space for individual expression?

Here, there are two issues.

one is that in dua there is no such rigidity, just in salaah.

The second issue is of purpose.

A purpose of Prayer is to remember God (swt) and try to remember him in all His glory.

Individualism is for equals - it is how equals differentiate between themselves, but prayer is to remember that compared to God we are less than tiny. We are creation.

A third part (yes, I know I said two. look up the spanish inquisition clip from Monty Python) is putting ourselves into a specific mindset - that infront of God we are NOT egotistical enough to think we know better, so in prayer we do how we are taught to pray, which is the best way as was revealed to and practiced by the Prophet (saw).

In this third regard, individualism is actually opposing a purpose of prayer.

North Korea has declared Kim Jong-il's son and successor "supreme leader" in the government's first public endorsement of his rule.



Kim Jong-un stood on a balcony at the Grand People's Study House overlooking Kim Il Sung Square watching the second day of funeral ceremonies for his late father.



http://m.sky.com/skynews/article/news/16139030

An 18-year-old man has been stabbed to death in London, on one of the UK's busiest shopping streets.

The victim died outside the Foot Locker sports shop on Oxford Street, near the junction with Stratford Place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16334214

Please lets save Pakistan

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Muslim hypocrisy exposed by the great Pakistani analyst Hassan Nisar

A diet rich in vitamins and fish may protect the brain from ageing while junk food has the opposite effect, research suggests.

Elderly people with high blood levels of vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids had less brain shrinkage and better mental performance, a Neurology study found.

BBC News