Prague Watchdog: Eight Suggestions
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posted by eagle on October, 2009 as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Eight suggestions
by German Sadulayev, special to Prague Watchdog
1) Don’t blow yourself up.
2) Don’t blow up other people with you.
3) Don’t succumb to paranoia and see around you only pagans and enemies of Islam, while you remain the only worthy Muslim.
4) If you don’t know something or don’t know enough about it, don’t immediately hurl abuse at the unknown, just say – I don’t know. God will be pleased with your humility.
5) One should seek friends, not enemies. You will be amazed when you discover that you have more friends than you imagined, and that they are closer.
6) One should strive for holiness, not death.
7) I have never heard it said that a holy man is one who considers everyone his enemy.
8) But I have heard it said that a holy man is one who has no enemies. Photo: ling-lung.blogspot.com.
(Translation by DM)
http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000024-000002-000025〈=1
A nice comment on the same site:
Lake (2009-10-08 15:49:49)
Very good! I have "eight suggestions more": 1) Do not become ...
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Oregon Live: Cold War Rivals Join Against New Foe -- With Oregon Ties
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
Cold War rivals join against new foe -- with Oregon tiesOctober 10, 2009, 8:14PMThey gathered in a conference room in Moscow, intent on swapping information about a dead Islamic charity in Oregon.
Federal prosecutors Charles Gorder and Chris Cardani were on one side. They had traveled from Oregon to Russia seeking proof that Al Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc. had been involved in terrorism.
On the other side sat agents from Russia's Federal Security Service, who were about to get copies of computer hard drives from southern Oregon that could yield clues about dead Russian soldiers.
Recent federal court filings in the pending criminal case of Pete Seda revealed the unusual trading session that took place last December, providing new details prosecutors say help prove that Seda and his small Ashland charity illegally backed foreign guerrilla fighters in Chechnya.
Seda, who founded the charity 10 years ago, is charged with conspiracy and tax fraud, accused of diverting money overseas for foreign Islamic fighters.
Seda's lawyers contend Gorder and ...>> full
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FinRosForum: Lessons Of The Georgia Conflict
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
A year ago, the EU helped mediate an end to a war that left 850 Georgians (including South Ossetians) and Russians dead and 138,000 displaced. Then, for the first time in its history, the EU created an independent fact-finding commission to determine what went so badly wrong and how to avoid a repetition. The report is now public, and it has important lessons for Europe, writes Heidi Tagliavini, who led the EU investigation into the 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia. At a time when preventive diplomacy is rightly seen as a priority, it must be said that the conflict of 2008 was predictable and preventable, Ms Tagliavini writes. Today, everybody has lost: Georgia is divided; the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are recognized only by a handful of countries; and, most importantly, more than 35,000 people are in forced displacement for an indefinite future. The report shows that the forces of unilateralism and violence are still very much a part ... >> full
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FinRosForum: Russia May Lose 11 Million People By 2025
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
 Russia’s population has fallen by 6.6 million since 1993, despite the influx of millions of immigrants, according to a UNDP report released last year. By 2025, the country could lose a further 11 million people.
Population levels in many developed countries have stagnated and are expected to fall by 2025, but Russia’s population, currently around 142 million, has been in retreat since 1992. Russia’s mortality rate is among the highest in the developed world, with average life expectancy for males at barely 60 years. Most experts blame the country’s overall high death rate on alcohol. The UN has urged Russia to overhaul the health system to provide more efficient care, while encouraging lifestyle changes to reduce the number of deaths related to alcohol consumption. The UN has also urged Russia to ease barriers to immigration in order to reduce the impact of labor shortages, slower economic growth and other pressures brought on by its ongoing demographic crisis. The UN report said that Russia should adopt ... >> full
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A Reply On “The Impact Of The Hajj Pilgrimage In The North Caucasus”
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posted by eagle on as ANALYSIS / OPINION
A Reply On “The
Impact of the Hajj Pilgrimage in the North Caucasus”
The following PONARS Eurasia publication in the title of “The Impact
of the Hajj Pilgrimage in the North Caucasus” for Mikhail A. Alexseev, was
published by School of Foreign Service / Georgetown University as one of PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos,
which got strange ideas that the author tried to implicate with unfounded ideas
about Muslims and their religious warship in the North Caucasus.
The original statements were kept the way they are in blue color, the
comments and remarks were added in green color to distinguish between the article
that got fallacies
probably due to not trying to understand the others in a proper manor,
and the Qur’an Verse is made in red color.
The Impact of the Hajj Pilgrimage in the
North Caucasus
PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 74
Mikhail A. Alexseev
San Diego State ... >> full
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