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"If the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then the State of Israel is finished"
Ehud Olmert
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians would spell the end of the State of Israel.
He warned of a "South African-style struggle" which Israel would lose if a Palestinian state was not established.
Show Plan - Show aired in September 2006
Welcome back to what we like to call Season 2 of the Hassan & Habibah Show. Jazakamullah khair for your continuing support over the last few weeks while we've been away with your emails. Remember, you can still email us at handhshow@islamchannel.tv.
Todays show is on Intimacy in Islam, this will involve discussing bedroom relations. Please be warned that we will be discussing various matters relating to this topic some of which will obviously be of an adult nature, using language and terminology which you may find inappropriate for any children watching.
The Egyptian Military regime, just like Muhsarraf's in Pakistan, has rigged elections to ensure it's stay in power, and after Israel, is the largest recipient of US military aid, which props up the client military rule. In 1990, the US "forgave" $7.1 billion in past Egyptian military debt in return for Egypt's support of the first Iraq war. Despite this "Aid" to the military government Egypt is still poor, with an estimated annua GDP per person of $3,600. Massive U.S. military support of Egypt has just bolstered a compliant regime, and coincided with 25 years of rule under Emergency Law, this continues despite regular reports of serious human rights abuses committed by the Egyptian government.
ABU DHABI (AFP) - Construction work on the world's first zero-carbon city housing 50,000 people in a car-free environment will begin in the oil-rich Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi next month (Jan 2008), the developers said on Monday.
Neocon policies designed to promote liberal opinion in the Middle East have in fact played into the hands of the religious parties
By William Dalrymple
Friday September 21, 2007
The Guardian
Six years after 9/11, throughout the Muslim world political Islam is on the march; the surprise is that its rise is happening democratically - not through the bomb, but the ballot box. Democracy is not the antidote to the Islamists the neocons once fondly believed it would be. Since the US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, there has been a consistent response from voters wherever Muslims have had the right to vote. In Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey and Algeria they have voted en masse for religious parties in a way they have never done before. Where governments have been most closely linked to the US, political Islam's rise has been most marked.
There is a growing worldwide trend for women-only spaces on trains, beaches and in hotels. But do they make women any safer?
By Jessica Valenti
Friday August 3, 2007
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2140903,00.html
Growing up in New York City, I took the subway to school like most of my peers. I remember not quite understanding, as a 13-year-old, the looks I received from men my father's age - or why they kept "accidentally" brushing up against me. What was all that about? As the years went by, of course, it all became clear, and now, in my late 20s, when the topic comes up, I have yet to speak to a woman who hasn't had some experience of being groped on a train.
Really Sherlock?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7093390.stm
BBC NEWS
Muslims are being "demonised" by the British media, with 91% of reports being negative, research commissioned by London's mayor has found.
This article appeared in the Telegraph, before Benazir's death, after the last attempt on her life:
Benazir Bhutto has only herself to blame
By Imran Khan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/10/21/do2101.xml
I'm sorry to say this, but the bombing of Benazir Bhutto's cavalcade as she paraded through Karachi on Thursday night was a tragedy almost waiting to happen. You could argue it was inevitable.
Below is anecdotal evidence that (v.s. simply having a natural desire) being sex obsessed even in secret is not universal, nor "natural" nor necessarily caused by societies that hold traditional values (which 'sexual repression' is sometimes a euphemism). Rather if you look at google search statistics it is the most sexually liberal countries that are privately most sex obsessed, (probably as a result of public bombardments of sexual imagery and innuendo). This should not negate evidence that those cultures which have monastic attitudes to sex, severely shun all talk about sex, view it as inherently "evil", or "worldly", or not praiseworthy even within any form marriage, and strictly utilitarian for breeding purposes have sexual abuse problems (Saudi/Indian/Pakistani/Bengalis take note!).
I do not clearly remember the first time I was here. My earliest memories of Australia start when I was around six or seven, probably my first trip after I was born in the city of Sydney. My parents were not particularly happy with the idea of me growing up there. So, they took me out to Iran at the first opportunity.
As I grew up, my impressions of Sydney were formed from stories I heard from my parents, shows I watched on television and of course, what I saw on my trips. From my first trip at the age of seven, I vaguely remember the people I met and the places I visited. I remember more from my second trip, though, which was at the age of fourteen. I recall my parents warning me over and over again about how women were treated in a society so fundamentally Western.
Please note that the British Queen in 2007 is worth £300 million, ranked 229th richest person in one of the richest countries in the world. The below valuation of Benazir Bhutto, is from almost 10 years ago, just before the property & economic booms. Her worth would have been multiplied many times now:
Music – Opposing Arguments
IslamToday.com, The Website of Shaykh Salman al-Oadah
The number of women having babies in their forties has doubled in the past decade. I'm reluctant even to write about it, because it is precisely this kind of media coverage that encourages younger women to think, insanely in my view, that delaying motherhood until you’re middle-aged is a reasonable and straightforward thing to do.
WARMING TO ECO ISSUES: Dr Mohammed Fahim
A MOSQUE is believed to be the first Mosque (local religious) institution in England to commit to becoming carbon neutral.
Benazir Bhutto: "Bin Laden was Murdered"
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977216849&grpId=3659174697241980&nav=Groupspace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLItJMVNleY
by Steve Bachman
December 31, 2007 06:26 PM EST
On November 2, 2007, news anchorman David Frost of Al Jazeera's international English language network, interviewed the now-deceased former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.
If anyone reading this has never heard of this interview, you may probably find the fact that you haven't just as striking as I did when I first saw this video this morning.
HAYAA:
shyness....selfrespect....bashfulness....shame....honor....humility....constraint...coyness....decency....delicacy....demureness....diffidence....discreetness.... humbleness....inhibition....innocence...purity....quietness....reserve... simplicity....timidity....virtuous.
Women usually have more hayaa by nature, and what I mean here by hayaa is the same as the definition of the ‘ulama’: the noble attitude that always motivates a person to keep away from what is abhorrent or shameful. The Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) was the highest example of hayaa, as the great Sahabi Abu Sa’id al-Khudri described him:
“Allah’s Messenger (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) was more shy than the virgin hiding away in her own room. If he saw something (vulgar/rash) he disliked, we would know it only from his facial expression.” 33
The Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) praised the attitude of hayaa in a number of ahadith, and explained that it is a fundamental part of Iman.
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