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In her column on November 30, Margaret Wente, of Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper, praised Australia for telling immigrants that "if they miss their elderly parents, they should buy a plane ticket home," instead of allowing them - as the case in Canada - to use "a family reunification program." She praised Australia again by saying that "language competence is so essential to immigrant success that if you can't speak English, you can't get in."
What Zionist Jews are doing to native Palestinians mocks the value of being human. For 100 years, they have refused to accept that the lives of Palestinians are equal to theirs. The world can no longer afford to be silent.
CAIRO, Egypt - I was treated to a walk through Cairo's recently restored Al-Muiz-le-Dinnallah street in Islamic Cairo, an open museum of the world's most beautiful Islamic architecture of mosques, schools, homes, palaces, hospitals and public drinking fountains.
The Qur'an is the 1,400-year-old divine book of Islam, revealed to its Prophet Muhammad by Almighty God. This unique scriptural revelation, entirely in Arabic, took 23 years to complete.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- On many lists of Egypt's top tourist destinations, Alexandria usually comes after Cairo, Upper Egypt and the Red Sea.
PETRA, Jordan -- The Qur'an refers to many pre-Islamic peoples who rejected the divine guidance brought by those prophets and messengers who were sent among them. One of those groups, the people of Thamoud, constructed secure and mighty buildings that were literally carved into the rocky sides of mountains.
(San'a, Capital of Yemen) - This is the ancient land of the Queen of Sheba, a land of fabled mystery and surprising contrasts, even to this day.
Signs of love include "abundant and exceeding cheerfulness at finding oneself with the beloved in a narrow space, and a corresponding depression on being together in a wide expanse; to engage in a playful tug of war for anything the one or the other lays hold of; much clandestine winking; leaning sideways and supporting oneself against the object of one's affection; endeavoring to touch the hand and whatever part of the body one can reach while engaged in conversation; and drinking the remainder of what the beloved has left in his/her cup, seeking out the very spot against which his/her lips pressed."
With Egypt's presidential elections scheduled for October 2011, there is a high degree of uncertainty in the country. But one scenario will likely happen:
We Canadian Muslims support the promotion of democratic values for the public good; hence, we support free speech. This should go without saying but more often than not I find myself saying this over and over.
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.