A series of news reports linking Israel's intelligence agency the Mossad to a blast at a military facility in Iran, in which 17 people were killed and a further 15 wounded, has gained widespread coverage in the Israeli media on Monday.

While Iranian officials insist the explosion at the Bid Ganeh base was accidental, caused by the movement of ammunition, claims from anonymous western and Israeli officials that Saturday's blast was a covert Israeli operation have gained momentum.

Read more @ The Guardian

There was a time that I thought that a female lion was a tiger.

Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, recently became much more famous than it ever was. Early this month it came out with a provocative issue whose cover presented a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad and the headline “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing.” Shortly afterwards the offices of the magazine were firebombed and its website got hacked, reportedly by a group of Turkish Muslims.

Luckily, no one died. But this incident underlined a recurrent conflict between European notions of free speech and the Islamic notions of the sacred. The pro-Charlie Hebdo demonstrators that gathered outside Paris City Hall on Nov. 6 were pointing exactly to that dilemma by declaring their “right to blaspheme.” Even mainstream Muslim organizations, however, have long been arguing for laws against blasphemy.

Read more @ Hurriyet Daily News

Sidi Ustadh Mohammed Daniel,

I sometimes read and post on a popular forum on the internet and yesterday I was shocked to find that a person had posted a link to a sport video that should not only showed a man in shorts above the knee, but also young women dressed in short skirts and t-shirts. I wrote a polite note telling the brother that he should not post such links that show the ‘awrah’. My post was deleted and these were some of the comments that were posted which I found fairly sad because they are responsible people in their communities and one is even a translator of Islamic texts.

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Islamic calendar comprises of 12 different months, each of them having its own significance; “Dhul-hijjah” being the last of them and perhaps the most important of them as well, because it offers Muslims all around the world the honor of “Hajj”, followed by “Eid-al-Adhaa”.

The two of these are considered to be the most revered of religious occasions (celebrations, in fact) for Muslims. This post serves to furnish you with some basic information about both “Hajj” as well as “Eid-al-Adhaa”.For more details please visit the site below:

http://www.quranreading.com/blog/islam-and-muslims/hajj-and-eid-al-adha…

A mother who force-fed her baby girl who later died has been jailed.

Gloria Dwomoh, a 31-year-old nurse from Walthamstow, London, was sent to prison for three years after being convicted of allowing or causing the death.

The 10-month-old, named in court as Diamond, was forced to take solid foods from the age of six months. She died in March 2010.

The Old Bailey heard Diamond died from pneumonia caused by food in her lungs that had blocked her airways

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15689864

Metropolitan Police Officers at tomorrow's student protests in London will have the right to fire plastic bullets at protesters, it has emerged this week.

The demonstration, endorsed by the National Union of Students (NUS), is the second major protest against the rise in university tuition fees in as many years.

In 2012/13, the University of Southampton will be charging prospective students £9,000 per year, the maximum allowed, for tuition.

http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/headline/2011/11/08/met-police-authorised-…

Saalams 😃

Don't want this to sound boring and worthless but what is the best way you would revise... :oops:

It's like, one time I'll be all worked up about work and get on with it, whereas the next day I won't be asked and I just can't be bothered... but I get it! Argghh..

I haven't got short-attention span, I feel prepared and not overly-confident.. but in a steady position

Pleaseee share your 'tips' on what you would do, or how I can change myself to get in the 'mode'..

Jazakhallah khair 😃

Things I have tried:

Brainstormed the benefits of concentrating

Looked at the cons i.e. fail and die!!

Changed my surroundings to avoid distraction...

As-salamu 'alaykum

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Jazakum Allahu khayran

MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thousands of Muslim men knelt shoulder-to-shoulder in prayer on the freezing streets of Moscow on Sunday to celebrate the religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.

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Police said 170,000 people celebrated the holiday in Moscow, including 80,000 who gathered on the street outside what was once the main mosque. The 100-year-old pastel green Cathedral Mosque was torn down in September and a new mosque being built next to it is still under construction.

Read more @ The Associated Press.

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