Majour and minor sins according to Islam

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Battle for Permatang Pauh: Arif Shah hoping ‘3′ spells lucky
By : Sharanjit Singh, Sajahan Waheed and Elizabeth John 
PERMATANG PAUH: His name will be third on the ballot paper, but Barisan Nasional candidate Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah could not be happier.
The 52-year-old, who is Chinese educated, said three was pronounced as “san” in Mandarin and it [...]

Ten years younger but potbelly indicates 10 times more health hazards

Ten years younger
 but potbelly indicates
10 times more health hazards
 
PKR’s Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim
VS
Barisan Nasional’s Arif Shah Omar Shah 
for the Permatang Pauh by-election on Aug 26. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

Is President Bush pushing the butt of beach volleyball female player?

 Is President Bush
pushing the butt of beach volleyball female player?
or
measuring
or
showing thumb-up sign to her body
The President’s position is unclear
What is George W. Bush doing with the US beach volleyball team?

New fakery scandal, as China’s ‘ethnic’ children actually come from Han majority

New fakery scandal at Beijing
as China’s ‘ethnic’ children actually come from Han majority

 
Jane Macartney and Hannah Fletcher in Beijing
As they paraded cheerfully into the Bird’s Nest stadium in their brightly coloured cultural costumes, the 56 smiling children were described as coming from China’s 56 ethnic groups.
Their different hats, dresses and robes may indeed have [...]

CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF GENOCIDE

Social scientists and scholars have generally organized their understanding of genocide in terms of the political structure within which it takes place, the context in which genocide occurs, the motives of the perpetrator, the nature of the victims, and the stages through which genocide passes.
a) Institutions of government
It is clear from empirical and historical research [...]

Definition of Democide

By R.J. Rummel
Genocide: among other things, the killing of people by a government because of their indelible group membership (race, ethnicity, religion, language).
 
Politicide: the murder of any person or people by a government because of their politics or for political purposes.

Mass Murder: the indiscriminate killing of any person or people by a government. [...]

Democide

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Democide is a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel for “the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.” Rummel created the term as an extended concept to include forms of government murder that are not covered by the legal definition of [...]

Staring Down the Russians

By ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

The end of the Cold War was supposed to usher in a new age in which the major powers would no longer dictate to their neighbors how to run their affairs. That is why Russia’s invasion of Georgia is so tragic and so potentially ominous. Russia is now on watch: [...]

THAUNG HTUN: 888 has dark significance in Yangon

THAUNG HTUN: 888 has dark significance in Yangon
 
Dr Thaung Htun is the representative for United Nations Affairs with the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, Myanmar’s government-in-exile
WE could all appreciate the cute symmetry of 08-08-08. But Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony was poorly timed. Aug 8, 1988 — “08-08-88″ — was the date of a [...]

Malaysian Trade Union Congress:Thousands of workers have been exploited, cheated, stepped on and abused

Malaysian Trade Union Congress:

Thousands of workers have been

exploited, cheated, stepped on and abused 
Malaysiakini interview by Fauwaz Abdul Aziz with MTUC Secretary General Aug16,08 
Don’t put your hopes on multinational corporations (MNC) improving factory conditions by applying codes of conduct, said Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) secretary-general G Rajasekaran.

The lesson to be learnt from the recent case of US [...]