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Kidnapped Baby Returns Home After 23 Years!

A New York Hospital horror story has found a happy ending after 23 years. In August 1987 20-day-old Carlina White's

Carlina White, now (via NY Post).

concerned parents took her to Harlem Hospital with a fever of 103° only to have her promptly…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 20, 2011 at 7:33am — No Comments

Iran sees 'Islamic Republic of Tunisia' coming soon

TEHRAN - Tunisians are on the path to establishing Islamic rule in their country after having toppled a Western-backed

Will be there

In one word, the Tunisians are after establishing Islamic law and rules: Ahmadinejad.

dictator, Iran's President…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 20, 2011 at 7:22am — No Comments

My Favorite Martin Luther King Quotes...

For this Martin Luther King Day, I decided to take the time and recognize our hero for his…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 19, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Anti-slavery activists face possible charges in Mauritania

NOUAKCHOTT - Seven anti-slavery activists arrested in Mauritania after a protest to highlight the plight of two young girls

Six policemen were reportedly injured in the protest

Seven activists arrested for violent protest to highlight plight of two young…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 19, 2011 at 8:42am — No Comments

Muslim Girl Pulled From Game Over Head Scarf...

A 12-year-old Muslim girl in Maryland was forced to sit out the first half of a basketball game by a referee who said her headscarf posed a safety risk.

Seventh-grader Maheen Haq of Hagerstown was allowed to play the second half wearing the hijab after a league administrator granted her a religious exemption.

Daphnie V. Campbell says the girl's parents will have to provide a letter stating that the headscarf is part of their…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 19, 2011 at 8:06am — No Comments

Palestinians hoist flag in Washington for first time

WASHINGTON - The Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington on Thursday hoisted its national flag for the first

We can't give you your land back, so run along with this flag instead

Highly symbolic US gesture towards Palestinian but no change of status for their…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 19, 2011 at 7:47am — No Comments

Tunisia demo calls for government to resign

Hundreds of Tunisians rallied against their new government on Wednesday, as the leadership tried to defuse public

Seeking 'a new republic'

Tunisian demonstrators call for abolition of RCD, demand new parliament, new constituion.

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 19, 2011 at 7:21am — No Comments

Resignations, protests rock Tunisia government

The resignation of three ministers rocked Tunisia's fledgling unity government Tuesday as protesters vented their anger

'The dictator has fallen but the dictatorship not yet'

Anger against new Tunisian government line-up brings thousands of protesters onto streets

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 18, 2011 at 5:00pm — No Comments

What Tunisia Means to the Arab World

BEIRUT -- The dramatic developments in Tunisia in the past weeks that have seen street demonstrators send former

The grievances that the Tunisian demonstrators have articulated in recent weeks - and in other forms in recent decades - are also widely shared across the entire Arab world, notes Rami G. Khouri.

President Zein el-Abedeen Ben Ali fleeing the country may prove to be the historic…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 18, 2011 at 3:48am — No Comments

Saudi Arabia: haven to ousted leaders

Fleeing his country from protests after 23 years of iron-fisted rule, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali found

'Ironic'

Saudis give Tunisia's Ben Ali refuge in 2011, as they gave Uganda's Idi Amin and Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif before…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 18, 2011 at 3:22am — No Comments

"What I Believe" by Tariq Ramadan....A Must Read!!!!

"Tariq Ramadan, a prominent intellectual activist in Europe and America, represents a new

generation of Islamic reformers", John L. Esposito

"Ramadan's most important message ... his advice to Muslims in the West to make the West their home...is one Americans should…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Mideast rulers watch Tunisia in fear of repeat

AMMAN - Governments across the Middle East anxiously watched developments in Tunisia on Sunday after the ouster

Jordanian protesters: 'where are the political reforms?'

Administrations in Mideast increasingly uneasy as opposition groups see inspiration in…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2011 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Buy American....And Demand It....

I want to ask each of you to consider doing the following when you are

talking on

the phone to any US customer service representative that is based in a foreign

country (like India ). I have done this twice and it works! Any time

you call an

800 number (for a credit card, banking, charter communications, health

insurance,

insurance, you name it) and you are transferred to a representative

(like in India),

please consider doing the…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2011 at 1:24pm — No Comments

The Four Wives......

There was a rich…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2011 at 12:27pm — No Comments

Huge new settlement project in east Jerusalem

Israel is set to approve 1,400 new homes in an east Jerusalem settlement, media reports and the local council said

Fresh Israeli defiance of the international community

Israel to approve 1,400 new illegal settlement units in occupied Palestinian east…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 17, 2011 at 3:54am — No Comments

What Allah Wants us TO DO in Quran

Respect and honour all human beings irrespective of their religion, colour, race, sex, language, status, property, birth, profession/job and so on [Al-Qur’an-17/70]

Talk straight, to the point, without any ambiguity or deception [Al-Qur’an-33/70]
Choose best words to speak and say them in the best possible way [Al-Qur’an-17/53, 2/83]
Always speak the truth. Shun words that are deceitful and ostentatious…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 14, 2011 at 9:11pm — No Comments

Census Results Reveal Blacks Leaving Large Cities

Black residents are increasingly departing large U.S. cities, a shift that could affect African-American political power

Flight Could Dilute and Shift Black Political Power

by Dorothy Rowley

according to data from the first results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s population census.

The population of the nation’s capital now exceeds 600,000 residents, 53 percent of whom are African American, and there has…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on January 14, 2011 at 8:48pm — No Comments

Clinton: US "Can’t Stop" Israel From Settling

Doha – PNN - At a press conference in Doha, Qatar, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said the power of American foreign policy was inherently limited when it came to pressuring Israel.