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America the land of the free has the highest number of prisoners In a recent article in the New York Times, it was reported that the United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population, but it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners. The US has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation. China, which is four times more populous than the United States , is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison. Criminologists point to higher levels of violent crime, harsher sentences, racial turmoil, consumption of drugs, the American temperament and the lack of a social safety net, as factors behind the burgeoning prison population. Whilst these reasons may be contributing factors they are certainly not the root causes. The underlying cause is America ’s freedom and democracy, which no politician or legal expert is prepared to admit. And wherever, America has exported its version of ‘freedom and democracy’ the world has witnessed

Petition to Close Down the AKP Spells a Dangerous Period

بِسْـــمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰـــنِ الرَّحِيـــم Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, the Chief Prosecutor of Turkey petitioned the Turkish Contitution Court on the evening of Friday, 14th March, 2008 asking the court to close down the ruling Justice and Development Party, the AKP and ban its political activities along with 71 of its politicians, especially the republic’s president Abdullah Gul, Recep Tayyip Erdugan, the Prime Minister, former speaker of the parliament Bulent Arinsh for 5 years. Under the authority vested with the chief prosecutor office in the constituion court, he monitors the activities of the political parties, their statements as well as the activities of their leaders. He studies their compliance with the constitution as well as the pricicples on which the republic is founded. The chief prosecutor documents and archives all statements and press releases issued by these political parties and their leaders. His monitoring of the activities of political parties is to ensure that the

Transcript: The Real Fitna

The following is the transcript of a talk recently delivered on this subject. الْفِتْنَةُ أَشَدُّ مِنَ الْقَتْلِ “Fitna is worse than slaughter” [TMQ 2: 191] Allah (swt) emphasized in this verse the gravity of Fitna, meaning discord, strife, unrest, fragmentation and the like – that it is worse than killing. It is ironic that Geert Wilders chose this title for his movie. He was trying to be clever in using this term which has been mentioned in more than 60 different verses of the Quran, in order to attack the Quran itself. He attempted in his movie to show a link between verses of the Quran and mindless violence like the killing of civilians – in the end concluding that the Quran itself is the problem and thus Muslims should either tear out pages of the Quran or that the Quran should be banned. Bi’isnillah, today I want to respond to the accusations he has put within his movie regarding Ayaat of the Quran and expose how in reality it is the Western ideology of Capitalism or what they