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June 18, 2006
Islamic Banking and Finance Threats and challenges in the aftermath of 9/1
By Latheef Farook
Over the years the banking industry, which covers almost every aspect of financial activities and dominates the economies of almost every country in the world, has become the exclusive privilege of the international Jewish community.
April 29, 2006
Negotiating Peace in Sri Lanka-Efforts –
failures and lessons.
By Latheef Farook
Negotiations have been underway for about twenty years to find a solution to Sri Lanka 's destructive ethnic problem. But the two sides – the government and the Tamil Tigers – remain where they started, with no change in their mindsets and with ever deepening mutual suspicions and prejudices.
February 27, 2006
Hamas Victory Exposes the Hypocrisy of Western Democracy
By Latheef Farook
The victory of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the democratic elections, to the Palestine Authority Legislature in January 2006 exposed the hypocrisy of the Western claim, even by all Western standards, to introduce democracy to the Middle East.
February 12 , 2006
Danish Cartoon on Islam's Prophet Recipe
for Disaster
By Latheef Farook
It is no secret that Muslims all over the world were seething with anger at the worldwide hate campaign unleashed against them under the guise of fighting war on terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Pope Benedict’s Provocative Utterances ! Timely blessings for George Bush’s Anti Muslim Crusade?
By Latheef Farook October 18, 2006
As we all know Pope Benedict XVI is the revered head of the world’s most powerful, very well organized and extremely influential Roman Catholic Church with around a billion followers worldwide. Not only Catholics even others look to him for better understanding among followers of all religions to make the world a better place for all.
Thus every word he speaks out, and that too in public, has always been watched carefully not only by Catholics but even by others. During a personal visit to his native Bavaria in Southern Germany, Pope Benedict addressed the staff and students at his former University of Regensburg on Tuesday 12 September 2006. What was supposed to be a boring theological lecture turned out to be an explosive one triggering off a worldwide
controversy. In an extremely inflammatory speech Pope Benedict dropped a bombshell when he denounced the connections between Islam and violence, particularly with regard to jihad, or “holy war”. Citing an obscure medieval text, recounting a conversation between 14th-century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on Islam’s beloved Prophet Mohammed ( PBUH) that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam as “evil and inhuman “, Pope Benedict asked ‘show me just what
Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only “evil and inhuman” such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached” When the Pope described Islam which the Muslims believe as the final version of revealed religions-Judaism and Christianity-as “evil and human” he knew very well that he was triggering off an unnecessary controversy and harm relations between Christians and Muslims.
And that too this irresponsible and deliberately provocation comes at a time when Muslims all over the world were seething with anger with the Christian West over the brutal global campaign waged by the United States President George W Bush, a Born Again Christian, and his British poodle Tony Blair to dehumanize Islam, justify killing Muslims and destroy Muslim societies and Muslim countries .
In other words the pope gave Vatican’s blessings to President George Bush’s devastating anti Muslim crusade, unleashed on behalf of corporate conglomerates and religious fanatics such as Born Again Christians and Zionist Jews, which turned the planet earth into a killing field and graveyard
One should not forget that under this vicious Judeo-Christian campaign anything and everything related to Islam and Muslims have become objects of hatred and calls for their elimination by the Western media in servitude to corporates. As a result, today every Muslim man with a beard and Muslim women with headscarves are afraid to move freely in the West where the hatred has become very widespread.
Hundreds of Muslims from all corners of the world were often illegally arrested and detained in many unknown prisons all corners of the world. Some of them, with no access to family members or lawyers, were tortured for years and already details started to emerge of the sufferings many innocent Muslims were subjected to with no valid reason. This is not the first time that Pope Benedict made anti Muslim utterances. During a visit to a Jewish synagogue in Cologne in Germany in August 2005; the second ever such visit by a Catholic Pontiff to a Jewish Synagogue, he called for Muslims to combat “cruel fanaticism of terrorism” as if all Muslims were involved in terrorism. What is strange is that Pope Benedict made this appeal while Western Christian forces occupied Muslim countries and kill Muslim men, women and children in hundreds of thousands. Later, on the same day, he called for “trust and mutual respect between Christians and Jews, hall marks of a relationship between equals”, but there was no mention of trust, respect and equality with Muslims.
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