Islamic Revival

On 25/3/2008, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with the Financial Times said, “We are not happy about the situation around Georgia and Ukraine …We consider that it is extremely troublesome for the existing structure of European security. ... No state can be pleased about having representatives of a military bloc to which it does not belong coming close to its borders.” Medvedev was protesting about NATO’s upcoming meeting scheduled for April 2-4, when it will consider the entry of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. The ultimate benefactor of this expansion is America. The US aims to achieve two objectives. First, it allows the US to protect her newfound colonies Georgia and Ukraine under the umbrella of NATO and undermine Russian security at the same time. Second, it weakens the efforts of France and Germany to unite Europe and become a counterweight to the US.

A new blog has been launched by Dr Abu Dawud, Hamza Andreas Tzortzis & Dawud Charalambous in order to provide the reader with accurate information on Islam. This blog is an attempt to transcend the irrational hysteria over the Sharia and seeks to initiate a frank and honest dialogue beyond the current anti-Islamic rhetoric. The Islam Revealed blog: http://islamexplained.blogspot.com/

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Hitler’s Henchman Joseph Goebbels "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." G. W. Bush Many will argue that these statements can be applied to the rhetoric on the war on terror; the so called imminent danger, the potential loss of many innocent lives. But how real is this threat? How many of us are suffering the consequences of daily attacks? Many of us were shocked and saddened by the events of 7/7, but since then what has