Israel again bars UN probe in Jenin

By: Jafariyanews

UNITED NATIONS: Israel has again decided to bar a United Nations fact-finding team seeking to visit the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin.

Cabinet ministers said in a statement that Israel has raised a number of issues it feels must be addressed before there can be a fair review of what happened in Jenin.

According to the statement as long as Israeli conditions are not met there is no possibility the UN team could begin its work.

Palestinians say that Israeli forces carried out a massacre of hundreds of civilians in the Jenin camp. While Israel says only about 50 Palestinian fighters and civilians were killed in Jenin.

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Pakistanis vote in Referendum polling

By: Salman Alvi

LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistanis cast their votes Tuesday in a national referendum to decide whether to extend the rule of President Pervez Musharraf for five more years.

Extremely tight security was imposed at the more than 87-thousand polling stations set up throughout the country.

The polling started at 09:00 am in all the polling stations with a moderate turnout.

The President Musharraf and his family cast their votes at the Fatima Jinnah Women University polling station in Rawalpindi.

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Chinese vice president to meet Bush

By: Jafariyanews

WASHINGTON: Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao is scheduled to have a White House meeting with President George W Bush on Wednesday.

Tuesday, Hu was due to hold talks with Vice President Dick Cheney.

Hu, who began his weeklong US tour in Hawaii on Saturday, met with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York on Monday and later visited the ruins of the World Trade Center.

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US troops kill four al Qaeda fighters on Afghan border

By: Jafariyanews

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan: A United States military spokesman said on Tuesday US-led troops killed up to four al Qaeda fighters in two separate battles in the past 24 hours in eastern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border.

Talking to newsmen at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, the spokesman Major Bryan Hilferty said the clashes occurred Monday and early Tuesday near the Afghan city of Khost. Major weapons discoveries were also made in caves and bunkers along the border by US-led Special Forces.

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Preacher of maktab-e-Jafar ibne Muhammad

By: Jafer Ghulam

Please visit www.al-emaan.com

AL-EMAAN

Main objective of al-emaan is to preach maktab-e-Jafar ibne Muhammad (a.s)

http:\\ www.al-emaan.com

(Added: 18-Nov-2001 Votes: 360 Rating: 10.00)

www.shialink.org

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Alert update: Boycott Zionism material

By: Islamic Human Rights

BOYCOTT ZIONISM: Stop supporting Israeli Apartheid 

Please support the Boycott Zionism campaign. The aim of this campaign is to boycott those companies, which either sell Israeli products, or financially support the Israeli regime in any way. The Boycott Israel campaign page produced by Innovative Minds is an excellent resource for the boycott and contains flyers and brochures that can be downloaded for reference or distribution. Insha Allah, despite being forced offline, it will be soon be reestablished.

The comprehensive flyer on companies that support Israel is still available to download from this page, together with campaign material for the Selfridges, Marks & Spencer and other boycotts and links to other organisations and sites. 

Please visit: http://www.inminds.com/boycott-israel.html


The IHRC website is continually being updated with its own material on campaigning against and boycotting Zionism. The March Against Israeli Terrorism flyer is also available from IHRC. 

Also available is the campaign pack on fraudulent labeling of goods made in the occupied territories. 

Please contact us if you are having difficulty accessing these materials online, or if you require hardcopies of any materials. 

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"And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! Cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper." Holy Qur'an: Chapter 4, Verse 75

Join the Struggle for Justice. Join IHRC.

For more information, please contact:
Islamic Human Rights Commission
Tel: +44-20-8902-0888
Fax: +44-20-8902-0889
email: info@ihrc.org
web: www.ihrc.org

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17th safar - condolences

By: Group of five

Our heartfelt condolences on Martyrdom of Imam Ali Bin Musa Al Reza (a.s)

17th Safar 203AH

http://www.go5.turn.to

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Noor seminar to held on 4th May

By: suhaila m husein

Seminar: Saturday 4th May

Noor Seminar entitled "Motivate Yourself to exam success!" by Bashar Al Naher.

Youth speaker will be Ali Al Hussaini and he will talk about "applying the akhlaq of the Holy Prophet in the 21st Century"

Time: 6.00pm

Location: 3rd Floor Dexion House, 2-4 Empire Way, Wembley HA9 0EF Nearest Station, Wembley Park Station

For more information call: 0208 903 4645 or visit out site @ http://www.nooryouth.co.uk/

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S. African Archbishop condemns Israeli 'apartheid'

By: Mohsin Hemani

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused Israel of practising apartheid in its policies towards the Palestinians. The Nobel peace laureate said he was "very deeply distressed" by a visit to the Holy Land, adding, "It reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa". 

The Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what? 

In a speech in the United States, carried in the UK's Guardian newspaper, Archbishop Tutu said he saw "the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about". 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world
/middle_east/newsid_1958000/1958075.st 

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Islamic Laws al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khui

By: Hossein

In His Name, the Most High

Assalamu alaykum

The Ahlul Bayt DILP team would like to announce the addition of a new title:

Islamic Laws al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khui
http://al-islam.org/laws/al-khui

This work is a translation of the Tawdih al-Masail of the late Marji`, and contains practical laws on topics such as cleanliness, purification, ritual prayers, fasting, pilgrimage, transactions, and current issues.

We are grateful to the copyright holder for kindly granting us permission to reproduce this title.

Best regards,

The Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project team
http://al-islam.org/organizations/dilp/

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