Category: Global Perspective

Gaddafi of Libya and Saddam of Iraq

Saddam, Ghaddafi and the Arabs – An African Perspectives

November 20, 2011 | Comments (15)

The news is broken that Saif al-Islam, has been arrested in Libya without being brutally killed like other members of his family. The media have published gory and offensive images of the killing of his father and former Libyan leader, Muammar Ghaddafi without warning for discretion. Viewers including children have been treated to disgusting, sickening [...]

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Prince Khaled Al Faisal of Mecca

Lesser Hajj: An Encounter with Prince Khaled of Mecca

September 12, 2011 | Comments (29)

Hajj is Islamic pilgrimages to holy sites of Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia which is only compulsory for those that could afford it, while Umra is the lesser Hajj which is optional and supererogatory. Most Muslims undertake the lesser Hajj during Ramadan, month of fast. Pilgrims perform the religious obligation for personal spiritual upliftment and [...]

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Purported picture of Osama Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden and the Electoral Violence in the North: A Muslim’s perspective

May 2, 2011 | Comments (21)

The past actions of Osama Bin Laden before his reported death have been wrongly associated to Muslims even when his country, Saudia Arabia and Islamic leaders have continued to disown his so-called Jihad. Due to the attacks by his group, Al-Qaida on institutions and individuals Arab and Islamic world have being incessantly criticised for the [...]

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Arab Leaders

Arab World: Between Democracy and Monarchy

March 29, 2011 | Comments (4)

The crises ravaging some Arab countries due to the political crises instigated by a young Tunisian graduate who burnt himself have been in the front burner. The unprecedented protests and demonstrations following Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in protest against police corruption and ill-treatment in Tunisia have continued to vibrate in the Muslim World of the North [...]

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AbdulMutallab of Nigeria

In Defence of Abdulmutallab of Nigeria

January 30, 2010 | Comments (5)

AbdulMutallab of Nigeria In Defence of Abdul Mutallab of Nigeria – A Response to MEND – By Yushau A, Shuaib I extremely envy and admire the American and British governments and people for uniquely defending their citizens around the world, even when accused of criminality. They maintain the innocence of their citizens to ensure justice [...]

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Air Vice Marshall Mohammed Audu-Bida of NEMA

NEMA and the Challenge of Managing Disaster in Nigeria

April 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

Can one guess what makes news in the media? Disasters: the real bad news, especially on emergencies, conflicts and strange occurrences that are either natural or man-made, are some of the newsworthy events that draw attention and influence mass readership and viewership. And guess! Nobody wishes to be a victim of adversity. A year ago, [...]

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The Hanging of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hanging and Arab Culpability

January 9, 2007 | Comments (3)

The news came as a shocker as I was just reflecting on memorable incidence on Christmas day concerning a live hausa programme on a local radio station in Abuja, Vision FM, where Muslims were calling in to congratulate Nigerian Christians on the Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ in quite emotional tribute. The programme [...]

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Saddam Trial: The Humiliation of the Arab World

July 20, 2004 | Comments (0)

Saddam Trial: The Humiliation of the Arab World- By Yushau A. Shuaib At last the former Iraqi leader, Saddam Al-Majid Hussein is charged to court on the allegation of crimes against humanity. The tribunal is likely to concentrate its trial on the last regime’s military campaigns and the suppression of revolts by Kurds and Shias [...]

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Saddam Hussein of Iraq

Saddam Trial: The Humiliation of Arab World

July 14, 2004 | Comments (3)

At last the former Iraqi leader, Saddam Al-Majid Hussein is charged to court on the allegation of crimes against humanity. The tribunal is likely to concentrate its trial on the last regime’s military campaigns and the suppression of revolts by Kurds and Shias after the Gulf war. The jury may also interrogate him on crimes [...]

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President George Bush with a Victim of US-Iraqi War

US-Iraq War: Letter To Muslim Brothers

April 1, 2003 | Comments (1)

“And whatever befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned . . . ” (Q42 V30) When America started bombarding Iraq, after President George Bush of United States made that offensive and egotistical statement, that President Saddam Hussein of Iraq and his children should leave their country within 48 hours, the feeling [...]

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