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Antiterrorism Bill on Detainees, Geneva Conventions - Rushing Off a Cliff - New York Times

Here’s what happens when this irresponsible Congress railroads a profoundly important bill to serve the mindless politics of a midterm election: The Bush administration uses Republicans’ fear of losing their majority to push through ghastly ideas about antiterrorism that will make American troops less safe and do lasting damage to our 217-year-old nation of laws — while actually doing nothing to protect the nation from terrorists. Democrats betray their principles to avoid last-minute attack ads. Our democracy is the big loser.

SunniPath Answers:


Is zakat due upon a child that hasn’t reached the age of puberty?

Distributing Zakat Through An Agent

Zakat: Calculation

When is Zakat Due?

Zakat: giving to poor, what is it due on, and when?

Various Zakat Questions

The Fiqh of Paying Zakat: Can it be given to parents, a spouse, children, relatives… ?

zakat on jewellery

Do we have to pay zakat on stock?

Zakat On Stocks And Shares

Zakat - I am a student: do I have to pay zakat?

Zakat: General Questions

Parents paying zakat… & Calculating zakat from previous years

Can I pay funeral expenses of a poor person from my zakat?

Confused about zakat

And Allah alone gives success.

Al-Ahram Weekly | Special | Bumpy road to heaven

In the company of traditional muftis, Dena Rashed watches while satellite TV turns into the Muslim world’s fatwa-issuing arena — with dubious consequences for all parties…

NPR : A Convert to Islam Takes Leadership Role

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is the first woman, the first convert and the first native North American to be elected to the position. Mattson, who was born and raised in Ontario, converted to Islam in college. The Islamic Society of North America is the largest Muslim organization on this continent.

CNN.com - U.S. homework outsourced as ‘e-tutoring’ grows - Sep 28, 2006

Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour — in India.

“It’s made the biggest difference. My daughter is literally at the top of every single one of her classes and she has never done that before,” said Robison, a single mother from Modesto.

avari nameh, or the book of the unwilling: india shining, or exploding

The New York Times gives us two articles with somewhat contrary indications [about India and its economy]….

Writing, Clear and Simple - Notebook - How to Write E-mail that Sucks: An Incomplete Guide

E-mail is an essential part of the modern communications toolkit. If you want your e-mail messages to almost-but-not-quite-completely fail to live up to their potential, here are some tips you can follow at your own peril…

Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006)

With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a cornerstone of legal justice since the Magna Carta.

IslamicaMagazine - My Father Was Smarter Than I Thought (Faraz Rabbani)

While growing up, fathers can seem rather annoying to their children. My father didn’t really seem to do all that much, but expected all these seemingly unreasonable things from me. Why, I’d wonder, why?

Now, with children of my own, my father seems a much smarter parent than I thought he was. Maybe he was on to something….

a v a r i: the dharma of evil

The greatest threat to civilization, to democracy and individuality, does not come from Islam, Islamism, or so-called Islamofascism. It comes from

Understanding and Empathy Aren’t Enough - New York Times

What’s not to like about understanding and empathy? They’re comforting and reassuring. And they’re two things that make patients stick with their treatment, as any psychotherapist worth his or her salt can tell you.

Democratising globalisation: Joseph Stiglitz interviewed Justin Vogler - openDemocracy

It’s time to move from critique to reform of globalisation –and
politics is key, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells
Justin Vogler.

Scientists shocked as Arctic polar route emerges - Yahoo! News

European scientists voiced shock as they showed pictures which showed Arctic ice cover had disappeared so much last month that a ship could sail unhindered from Europe’s most northerly outpost to the North Pole itself.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jerusalem is lost in translation

Tourism officials in Israel did little to sell the city of Jerusalem as a must-see for visitors when a brochure suggested it did not exist.

The sightseeing pamphlet was translated from Hebrew and should have read: “Jerusalem - there’s no city like it!”.

But instead the slogan in English read: “Jerusalem - there’s no such city!”, reported the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

SunniPath Study Tour - New York, USA

Foundations of Prophetic Guidance: The Hadith Jibril Explained, 77 Branches of Faith and How the Prophet approached Ramadan

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Details of SunniPath North American Study Tour

SunniPath Answers:
Thinking of Another in Bed

Question: I find my spouse unattractive. When we are in bed, I bring to mind someone else, for stimulation. Is this allowed?

Answer

Karez Irrigation in Balochistan at All Things Pakistan

The Karez system on irrigation is one of the traditional engineering wonders of Pakistan.

West of Indus Plains and out of monsoon zone is Balochistan – the largest landmass in Pakistan with an area of 343,000 square kilometres. Balochistan is scarcely populated, mainly due to its daunting arid geography. It includes the mountainous country separated by intervening valleys. Balochistan receives very low rainfall annually.

Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Unfinished Tolkien tale completed by his son

An unfinished tale abandoned by JRR Tolkien in 1918 has been completed by his son and will be published next spring, it was announced yesterday.

MotherJones.com | MoJo Blog - Social Issues and Political Commentary: Innocent Man Rendered to Syria, Held and Tortured for One Year (Blame Canada?)

Closing (well, except for the well-deserved lawsuits I presume)
another dark chapter in the war on terror, Canadian citizen Maher Arar
has been completely cleared by a Canadian judicial commission. In a
822-page report, the commission, lead by Justice Dennis O’Connor,
ripped the Mounties apart for giving U.S. authorities erroneous and
inflammatory “evidence” against Arar, which led to his
being detained during a stopover in JFK airport, rendered to Syria,
where he was held and tortured for one year.

And let’s be clear what we mean by torture here. This
isn’t just sleep deprivation. This is a Canadian computer
consultant returning from a family vacation who, with no ability to
access the “evidence” against him, gets bundled off to
Syria and beaten with electrical cables.

SunniPath Answers:
Thinking of Sin & Determining to Sin

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | The unmistakable whiff of Christian triumphalism

This was no casual slip. Beneath his scholarly rhetoric, the Pope’s logic seemed to be that Islam is dangerous and godless

The Story of Karachi at All Things Pakistan

Karachi has a wonderful history that is neither discussed nor celebrated as much as the history of Mughal Lahore….

The East India Company: the future of the past Nick Robins - openDemocracy

More than a century after its demise, the legacy of the East India Company continues to haunt both Europe and Asia. India’s triple anniversaries in 2007 should be the occasion for a reckoning with this pioneering corporate giant, argues Nick Robins.