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Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Iran Election

Amer — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:11:53 +0000

Iran’s Interior Ministry declared Saturday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a decisive victory in Friday’s presidential election, but the incumbent’s leading challenger protested the results, and clashes broke out between the two candidates’ supporters.

Mir Hossein Mousavi, a former prime minister who waged a heated campaign against Ahmadinejad’s bid for reelection, urged his supporters to reject a “governance of lie and dictatorship.” He attributed the results to widespread vote fraud and vowed to resist a “dangerous manipulation” of the balloting.

Islam, allegedly, is the Solution

Amer — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:43:05 +0000

Waleed Al Tabtaba’i, a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, writes in Al Watan daily (26.9.2008), “Japan and Germany are studying the Shari’a’s economic and financial theories for applying them. In Mexico, the government is introducing...

Islam now worlds biggest religion: Vatican

Amer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:53:38 +0000

Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.

“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.

He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.

“It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer,” the monsignor said.