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In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan
Tariq A. Al-Maeena     The typhoon that swept through and devastated provinces in the Philippines is nothing short of a national disaster.  Estimates for the dead have risen as high as 10,000 while more than 1,800 people have been confirmed dead and ...
A real time housewives' dilemma
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     As the amnesty period ran out, concerns from another quarter grew.  This time it was from the thousands of teachers working in international schools across the Kingdom.  Many of them are housewives who had accompanied their spouses on ...
The clock runs out
Tariq A. Al-Maeena     In a matter of a handful of days, the clock will run out on thousands of expatriates whose residency in this country has been questionable.  They will be the unfortunate ones who did not manage to correct their ...
Cleanliness is part of our faith
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Most if not all of us are aware of the significance of cleanliness in Islam.  Whether it is personal hygiene or the purity of the environment around us, there is no doubt that Islam seeks to promote such ...
Rebirth with a clean slate
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Some two million worshippers gathered in the holy sites around Makkah to perform one of the five obligatory pillars of Islam. Many prayed for world peace and prosperity for all. And as the Haj rituals begin to wind ...
Kashmir resolution remains an elusive dream
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     There were hopes last week when the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers met in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that concrete steps would be pursued for a lasting peace between the two nuclear-armed ...
Acts of terror have no link to Islam
TARIQ A. AL-MAEENA   Two acts of terror this past week demonstrate how the evils of terrorism are often masked by warped religious ideologies.  In northwestern Pakistan, a couple of suicide bombers detonated explosives in the vicinity of the All Saints Church ...
The Israeli apartheid state
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     Hameed Abdul Karim, a Sri Lankan writer and social activist who has demonstrated sympathy for the oppressed through his writings, has recently put out another piece titled: Israel: Where ‘A’ Stands for Apartheid.  It is a clear definition ...
‘Muslims are just being made scapegoats’
  Tariq A. Al-Maeena     My column last week on the media marginalization of minorities in India and in particular the Muslim minority prompted an Indian Muslim to bring to my attention a letter he had written to an Indian daily some years ...
Media marginalization of Muslims in India
  TARIQ A. AL-MAEENA There are sentiments in some quarters within India that the Indian media is not necessarily fair to Muslim issues and to the sensitivities of its largest minority. The 160 million plus minority, the largest in India, is not ...
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