http://muamalat.net/ Portal of Islamic Finance, Business and Management. All articles and info here! Brought to you by Deparment of Shariah & Management & EBS. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:52:31 -0800 http://backend.userland.com/rss/ XOOPS WebLinks 0.9 XOOPS WebLinks ideologi@gmail.com ideologi@gmail.com en http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/alliance-between-obama-and-lobbyists-to-be-or-not-to-be/ Please click here to watch the report by Campbell Brown from CNN. Has Obama already started bending one of his campaign promises? In Transition, Ties to Lobbying By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, New York Tim ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:56:14 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1690 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/former-marine-outlines-secret-dossiers-on-muslims-and-arabs-in-southern-california/ By Rick Rogers STAFF WRITER, San Diego Union-Tribune November 17, 2008 OCEANSIDE ? Two years after his arrest, a former Marine gunnery sergeant is talking about the FBI, CIA and U.S. Immigration and C ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:14:18 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1686 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/young-muslims-and-muslimahs-on-islam-and-the-us-presidential-elections/ Please click here to watch this interesting exchange of views on “Islam and the Elections” from young Muslims and Muslimahs. In a forum at New York University, Muslim students consider how ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:18:39 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1666 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/afghan-girl-begging-for-bread-yearning-to-go-to-school/ CNN KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Little Banafsha wakes up in her small mud home, has a cup of tea and braces herself for the day ahead. Banafsha, learning in a center run by Aschiana, an Afghan NG ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:56:42 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1647 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/signs-of-hate-now-demonstrate-islamophobia/ Rafik Beekun Previous Signs of Hate and Discrimination Whites Only No Dogs And Chinese Allowed No Irish Need Apply Jews Not Allowed Christians Only, Jews Not Current Signs of Hate and Discrimnation Mu ... Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:31:17 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1628 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/prospective-jobs-in-obama-administration/ A website (www.change.gov) is designed to provide prospective applicants with information to help them apply for positions in the Obama-Biden Administration This website is designed to provide prospec ... Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:29:42 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1617 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/key-obama-advisor-has-hindu-extremist-baggage-from-vishwa-hindu-parishad-of-america/ For all the talk of change and hope, one of the first thing that Obama did after getting elected was appoint Sonal Shah, a right wing Hindu extremist figure, as a key advisor to his transition team. F ... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:51:47 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1609 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/obamas-israeli-advisor-rahm-emanuel-is-his-new-white-house-chief-of-staff/ Note from Rafik Beekun: Obama has just appointed Raham Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff. He holds a dual US/Israeli citizenship, and has served in Israel’s army, the IDF. His father was a member o ... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:41:08 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1599 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/islam-and-obama-american-muslims-overwhelmingly-voted-democratic/  Lorraine Ali NEWSWEEK http://www.newsweek.com/id/168062 For the past few months, not a day went by without the words “Muslim” and “Obama” being mentioned in the same sentence ... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:35:36 -0800 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1602 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/the-extremists-behind-the-obsession-movie/ Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic 27 Oct 2008 09:45 am I’ve only watched the 12-minute version of “Obsession,” the film sent to more than 28 million people in various swing states, appa ... Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:43:27 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1595 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/which-religion-picks-the-best-stocks/ David Van Biema, TIME Magazine Which faith plays the market best when it seems headed for the financial equivalent of purgatory? That may sound like a whimsical question, but there are, in fact, mutua ... Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:24:44 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1587 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/american-muslims-are-voters-too/ About a decade and a half ago, I ran for the office of state assemblyman in District 31 of Nevada.   My first name Rafik did not sit well with some, and one of my advisors (who happened to be a state ... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:50:57 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1573 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/muslim-leaders-global-fight-against-extremism/ Stryker McGuire, Newsweek A year ago, 138 Muslim leaders from 40 nations addressed a plea for interfaith dialogue to the leaders of the world’s Christian churches in a bid to diminish the influe ... Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:53:29 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1568 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/moved-by-a-crescent/ Note from Rafik Beekun: Very few commentators of an international stature like Maureen Dowd have examined at length Powell’s statement about the Islamophobic statements made by many in the Repub ... Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:26:28 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1546 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/like-aig-palin-took-advantage-charging-alaska-for-her-kids-travel-and-lodging-expenses/ First Story: AP Investigation: Alaska Funded Palin Kids’ Travel By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reported in the New York Times Published: October 22, 2008 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Sarah Pali ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:14:33 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1539 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/islamophobic-article-from-republican-official-in-alamogordo-new-mexico/ Why I’m a Republican Alamogordo Daily News Article Launched: 10/21/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT   I read in today’s paper what a woman wrote explaining why she’s a Democrat. Let me tell y ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:09:17 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1536 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/putting-family-before-politics-senator-obama-and-his-ailing-grandmother/ “And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business or making her way in the world, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:47:02 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1533 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/kareem-r-khan-american-muslim-hero-who-made-the-ultimate-sacrifice/ On ?Meet the Press? today, Colin L. Powell concluded his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama by referring to the death of a Muslim soldier, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan of Manahawkin, N.J., who was killed i ... Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:01:24 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1506 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/repression-of-muslims-in-china/ Edward Wong, New York Times KHOTAN, China ? The grand mosque that draws thousands of Muslims each week in this oasis town has all the usual trappings of piety: dusty wool carpets on which to kneel in ... Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:39:11 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1503 http://makkah.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/good-samaritan-101-rabbi-rabbi-steven-jacobs-confronts-clarion-funds-gregory-ross/ After a press conference against the “Obsession” movie held by the Coalition for Renewing American Democracy, the Communications Director of the Clarion Fund confronted the coalition membe ... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:24 -0700 http://makkah.wordpress.com/?p=1495