This peculiar article, University goes to court over $24m lost in Bernard Madoff scandal, from The Times, centres around a synagogue in New York which seems to have been packed with billionaires and millionaires who have lost considerably when Madoff made off with the money. But this interesting article, Madoff’s Double Bluff, from Muhammad Rafeeq, …
Monthly Archives: December 2008
A Muslim’s Christmas
Seems incongruous, doesn’t it? The Muslims wouldn’t celebrate Christ mas. Or would they? It is so much a part and parcel of Western culture that it would be totally bizarre to try and imagine Arabs sitting around Christmas trees or spending flustered weeks choosing ties and socks for obscure uncles and aunts. Or unwrapping their gifts …
Shoeless and Clueless
A shoe was thrown. It was thrown because of the destruction of Iraq, its infrastructure, and the million deaths of men, women and children, and the exile of substantially more people as refugees, because of the theft of Iraq’s resources and their being handed over to crony capitalism by what they like to call the …
Appointment of the Imam (khalifah)
They reached consensus on the obligatory nature of the appointment of the Imam, the only difference being as to whether it is obligatory on Allah or on people, with transmitted or intellectual evidence. The position of the people of the Sunnah and the great majority of the Mu’tazilah is that it is an obligation on …
Paper Money and Tyranny – Congressman Ron Paul
Delivered in the House of Representatives September 5, 2003 “All great republics throughout history cherished sound money. This meant that the monetary unit was a commodity of honest weight and purity. When money was sound, civilizations were found to be more prosperous and freedom thrived. The less free a society becomes, the greater the likelihood …
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The Deconstruction of the World Financial Power System: an Analysis of a Different Kind
The Deconstruction of the World Financial Power System: an Analysis of a Different Kind In ancient Rome, a one ounce gold coin (which is REAL Money) bought you a fine toga, a handcrafted belt and a pair of sandals. Today, you can walk into any fine men’s store and, with a one ounce gold coin, …
Empire and The Siege of Bombay by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
FIRSTLY: LET US TAKE THE LONG VIEW. The first Empire with world hegemony was the British Empire. The British Empire began when Disraeli persuaded Queen Victoria to claim India as Imperatrix. She was declared Empress in 1877. The Empire lasted precisely 70 years. It came to an ignominious end under Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, whose wife, …
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