Details have emerged of huge casualty figures in the Libyan city of Benghazi, where troops have launched a brutal crackdown on protesters.
More than 200 people are known to have died, doctors say, with 900 injured.
The most bloody attacks were reported over the weekend, when a funeral procession is said to have come under machine-gun and heavy weapons fire.
Read more @ BBC News
Its the new question doing the rounds.
According to this article that is doing the rounds someone was able to decipher the recipe for coke from an old image of a book or something or other.
One of the ingredients listed is alcohol.
Does this make coke haraam?
Something that seems to have snuck up - the starting ceremony was today in Dhaka.
Will it be a carnival of cricket? Who do you think will win?
Do you even care?
On January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to appease the masses of protesters and retain his own grip on the presidency, Mubarak has once again shown his knack for devilish shrewdness. Suleiman has long been favoured by the US government for his ardent anti-Islamism, his willingness to talk and act tough on Iran - and he has long been the CIA’s main man in Cairo.
Read more @ Al Jazeera
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12402421
Seems like a standup guy.
Interview with the guy behind the til
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Monday 14 February at 8PM on Channel 4.
Dispatches goes undercover to investigate allegations that teachers regularly assault young children in some of the 2,000 Muslim schools in Britain run by Islamic organisations.
The programme also follows up allegations that, behind closed doors, some Muslim secondary schools teach a message of hatred and intolerance.
Weeeee, more fun.
A documentary on one of Turkey's power men Ahmet Dvatoglu, The foriegn minister, who is a charismatic man.
The other two men weilding power for the government are currently the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the President, Abdullah Gul.
While this documentary starts out focussing on the Foriegn Minister, it later focusses on other challenging aspects of Turkey, including the Armenian and Kurdish issues and touches on the issue of the military and judiciary challenge to the current government.
(contents do seem to suggest that parts of this were filmed before September 12 2010.)
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David Cameron has criticised "state multiculturalism" in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.
At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism.
He also signalled a tougher stance on groups promoting Islamist extremism.
The speech angered some Muslim groups, while others queried its timing amid an English Defence League rally in the UK.
Read more @ BBC News
Either that, or he is jumping on what he considers to be an "easy" political bandwaggon.
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive and disputed areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible.
Throughout his journey, Louis gets close to the people most involved with driving the extreme end of the Jewish settler movement - finding them warm, friendly, humorous, and deeply troubling.
Tonight at 9pm on BBC two and probably on iplayer afterwards.
For all you people out there who were always wondering what is the official fatwa on Basant, watch on.
Even if you cannot understand the arabic, you should listen as you may benefit from the barakah of the fatwa.
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Courtesy of someone on Tribune.
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