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Turkey's involvement in supporting the takfiri terrorists in Syria has been talked about but only now has it been officially acknowledge. A statement from the Office of the Governor of Denizli province confirmed that a terrorist commander injured in Syria had been admitted to hospital in Denizli and was receiving treatment there.

Islamic Iran's negotiators have made clear that if the P5+1 group of countries led by the US are really serious about a deal over Tehran's nuclear program, then all sanctions must be lifted. The latest round of talks have been underway in the Swiss city of Montreux. Iran's Foreign Minister Dr Javad Zarif and his US counterpart met yesterday and talks are continuing at expert level today. March 31 has been set as a deadline for a deal.

Benjamin Netanyahu is supremely arrogant. He displayed his arrogance--and hypocrisy--once again when he came to address the US Congress without even consulting the White House. Barack Obama was visibly upset at such an insult. Netanyahu thinks he can insult the American president and get away with it. He came to rant about Iran's non-existent nuclear bomb program. What hypocrisy when the Zionist regime has 400 nuclear bombs!

طالب مجلس العلاقات الأمريكية الإسلامية، في بيان صحفي أصدره شهر يناير 2013؛ وسائل الإعلام الأمريكية بالتوقُّف عن استخدام مصطلح “الإسلاميين Islamists”،مُشيرًا إلى أنه يُستخدم في سياق الازدراء والتحقير مقرونين بالتطرُّف؛ مما يُضفي ظلالًا شديدة السلبيّة على المدلول. وقال المجلس أن الربط بين اصطلاح “الإسلاميين” ومظاهر التشدُد والعنف وحرمان اﻵخر من الحقوق الدينية والمدنيّة؛ هي رؤية يُروّج لها المعادون للإسلام. ودعا المجلس الإعلام للاقتداء بوكالة أسوشيتد برس الأمريكية؛ التي عرّفت “الإسلاميين”، عام 2012؛ بأنهم “من يؤيدون الحكم وفقًا للقوانين الإسلامية”. ورأى البيان أن استخدام المصطلح دون تعريف واضح يعني إصدار أحكام دينية وسياسيّة نهائيّة بحق الموصوف في كل مرة يتم استخدامه.

Salman ibn Abd al Aziz, wasted little time taking the broom to almost all the appointees of his deceased predecessor Abdullah. In their place, he appointed his own sons and favourite nephews. How long will Bani Saud remain in power is an interesting question.

Imperialism uses a large number of tools to maintain its hegemony over the rest of the world. None is more powerful than language and the mind of the colonized people. Freedom cannot be achieved without decolonizing the mind.

The Muslim world is beset by numerous problems and some countries may even undergo further disintegration but the silver lining is the Islamic Republic of Iran. The resistance front is getting stronger. This should give hope to oppressed Muslims everywhere.

If capitalism is such a great system why is there such widespread poverty in the world? Capitalism is run by vultures that prey on the innocent and the weak creating gross inequalities between and within societies.

There were two conferences back-to-back on combating terrorism last month. The first was in Washington DC, the second in Makkah. The irony is that the host countries are the biggest supporters of terrorism.

The Nigerian regime postponed presidential elections scheduled for February 14 because the challenger Muhammad Buhari was set to win. It revived memories of a similar disruption in June 1993 when Moshood Abiola was deprived of his victory. In the earlier case, voting had taken place but the result was not announced.