Issues & Events

Commemorating the Great Scientist Abu Rayhan Berouni

Sep 04, 2018 12:24

Every year on Shahrivar 13, corresponding to September 4, the Islamic Republic of Iran, commemorates prominent Iranian Islamic scientist, Abu Rayhan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad al-Berouni, who was born in 973 AD in the ancient Iranian land of Khwarezm, a region adjoining the Aral Sea and presently divided among the three Central Asian republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Essential Qualities of Islamic Leadership

Sep 04, 2018 12:19

In Islamic governance, leadership is extremely important, as indeed it is under any other system. This is also true of industry and other organizations. There are certain qualities unique to Islamic leadership that are often lacking in other systems. Similarly, rulers are often confused with leaders. Is there a difference?
Leader calls for round-the-clock gov’t efforts to improve economy, rules out talks with the US

Sep 04, 2018 04:49

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who last Wednesday, August 29, granted audience to President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet members, cited the distinctive indexes of true Islamic rule, namely “justice, chastity, piety and standing by people” as the yardsticks to measure and assess the steps taken by officials.
Myanmar’s Israeli weapons for genocide of Rohingya Muslims worsens the holocaust

Sep 04, 2018 04:43

The regime in Myanmar which for the past few years is engaged in an unabated genocide of the Rohingya people, is now being supplied by the Zionist entity with sophisticated weapons to speed up the killing of Muslims.
Trade tensions increase as US-Canada talks miss deadline

Sep 03, 2018 11:52

Talks between US and Canadian representatives on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) broke up without an agreement, missing the deadline for a deal set by the Trump administration.
In remembrance of Imam Musa as-Sadr

Sep 03, 2018 05:19

It is now forty years and sadly no trace has been found of Iranian-Lebanese religious leader, Seyyed Musa as-Sadr, who it is believed was either imprisoned or martyred by the now defunct dictator of Libya Mu’ammar Qadhafi, who had treacherously invited him to Tripoli in order to remove him from the political-social scene.
Trump’s drastic cuts to UNRWA spell more poverty, hopelessness, in Palestine

Sep 03, 2018 05:12

In an attempt to pressure the Palestinian people to accept his “deal of the century,” the quixotic US president, Donald Trump, has decided to drastically cut the annual US contribution to UNRWA from about $350 million to $65 million and pressured other countries, including Britain and Australia, to reduce their contributions as well.
UN panel cites massive war crimes in US-backed war on Yemen

Sep 03, 2018 05:00

A draft report prepared by a United Nations human rights panel has spelled out in detail the massive and savage war crimes that have been carried out against the people of Yemen in the three-year-old war waged by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates with indispensable military and political backing from Washington.
US-backed Saudi regime set to behead female activist and four others

Sep 02, 2018 20:59

State prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have called for the execution by beheading of 29-year-old political women activist Israa al-Ghomgham, her husband, Moussa al-Hashem, and three others for the alleged “crimes” of peacefully demonstrating against the country’s monarchical dictatorship, chanting slogans against the regime and posting videos of their protests on social media.
Warrior cops endanger American lives and freedoms

Sep 02, 2018 20:52

Indeed, it is increasingly evident that militarized police armed with weapons of war who are allowed to operate above the law and break the laws with impunity have not made America any safer or freer.