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Written by Staff Writer
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Sunday, 01 August 2010 14:54 |
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 When I was a little boy, I used to wonder how airplanes flew up high over the land and sea in the clear blue sky and dreamt of being a pilot. As I grew up, I found some of the answers to those long curious questions of how airplanes work, who invented them and so on, from reading text books.
The Wright brothers made the world's first flight 120 feet up from the ground for twelve seconds on December 17, 1903. We also remember Leonardo Da Vinci whenever we talk about airplane invention because of his hand drawn sketches of airplanes, gliders, helicopters and parachutes about five hundred years prior to the invention of the first working airplane.
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Written by Nihad Awad
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:27 |
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 I will be the first to defend anyone's right to express their opinion, no matter how offensive it may be to me. Our nation has prospered because Americans value and respect diversity. But freedom of expression does not create an obligation to offend or to show disrespect for the religious beliefs or revered figures of others.
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Written by Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan
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Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:24 |
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 The following is the unabridged version of a letter by the President of the Ottawa Muslim Coordinating Council to the Editor of the Ottawa Citizen. It was written in response to the Ottawa Citizen editorial of June 4 entitled, "Lose-lose for Israel".
Editor, Ottawa Citizen
Your editorial makes two valid points: That the violent confrontation on the Mediterranean does not further the cause of peace, and that the incident puts Israel in a lose-lose situation.
Other than that, the editorial has an Alice in Wonderland quality. It blames Arab-Muslim leaders, Hamas, Turkey, radical Islamic elements, the “army of Muhammad” arriving to kill Jews and just about everybody else. Only Israel, with the only nuclear arsenal in the region and with the strongest armed forces in the area, is blameless, the innocent and helpless victim of Muslims-Arabs whose only purpose in life seems to be to hate Israelis without any cause or reason.
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Written by Daood Hamdani
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Friday, 07 May 2010 15:09 |
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Across Europe, discussions are taking place about what local Muslim women wear - specifically the niqab (face veil), burqa (a garment that covers the body, head and face) and the hijab (headscarf). More recently the debate has been taken up in the Canadian province of Quebec. And, as in Europe, the discussion tends to disregard the diversity within Muslim societies, as well as the strides Muslims have taken to integrate and participate actively in their local communities.
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