In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an “Iraqi connection” to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a weapon of mass destruction. It was all false. Supplied by US intelligence and Iraqi exiles, planted stories in the British and US media helped George Bush and Tony Blair to launch an illegal invasion which caused, according to the most recent study, 1.3 million deaths.
Delivering a lecture at a university in the US, telecast on Dunya News on Sunday, Musharraf said Israel would object to the inclusion of a non-Arab country in the Middle East peace process. He said a joint international forum, consisting of Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia and the European Union, could help push the process between the Palestinians and the Israelis in the right direction.
« Première poignée de main entre Netanyahou et Abbas », titre LeMonde.fr le 22 septembre. Les deux hommes se sont vus (très brièvement, à peine quinze minutes) à New York ; si l’on en croit commentateurs et éditorialistes, la rencontre n’a rien donné, et marque même une victoire israélienne.
London has become one of the biggest centres for Islamic finance in the world, with five Islamic banks, and many others in the high street offering Islamic financial products, or “windows” as they are known.
”Israel need not apologize for the assassination or destruction of those who seek to destroy it. The first order of business for any country is the protection of its people.”Washington Jewish Week, October 9, 1997
For instance, when Western academics tried to compare the application of ‘modernisation theories’ to the Middle East and Latin America and the possibility of democracy to become the norm in these two regions, Leonard Binder, a prominent American scholar, noticed that whereas Western experts who conducted such studies have concentrated on the socio-economic factors in the case of Latin America, in the Middle East, by contrast, the focus was on the “otherness” of the region and the resistant nature of its cultural heritage. However, by way of reversing the effects of this view, Binder noticed that whereas Latin Americans were solely concerned with economic exploitation when opposing Western penetration, the apprehension of Middle Easterners stemmed mainly from cultural penetration.
Once my fourth Umrah was complete, I was little tired and while sitting in front of Holy Ka’aba, I started to observe things (actually in my style)… that, “what if Makkah was in Pakistan?” – This sparked TNTs of my brains and answer to question started to emerged, here is what flashed through my mind.
