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Kashmiris can opt for independence after accession: PM By Tariq Naqash
3 days ago

Kashmiris can opt for independence after accession: PM By Tariq Naqash

Prime minister reiterated Pakistan’s stance that Kashmir dispute can only be resolved by implementin…

KASHMIR’S FUTURE By A.G. Noorani
3 days ago

KASHMIR’S FUTURE By A.G. Noorani

THE National Conference led by Dr Farooq Abdullah and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by Meh…

No vaccine for rifts among communities; so, be careful By S. H. MOULANA
3 days ago

No vaccine for rifts among communities; so, be careful By S. H. MOULANA

I firmly believe in the opinion expressed by MP Harin Fernando, that religions are being used by pol…

Why did the Easter Sunday Commission fail to quote directly from original works of Islamic scholars to prove ‘extremism’?
4 days ago

Why did the Easter Sunday Commission fail to quote directly from original works of Islamic scholars to prove ‘extremism’?

The Easter Sunday attack report includes many great Islamic personalities in the questionable ‘extre…

Muslims Are Persecuted In Sri Lanka; ACJU Chief Rizvi Mawlānā Relaxing In Madina? By Latheef Farook –
4 days ago

Muslims Are Persecuted In Sri Lanka; ACJU Chief Rizvi Mawlānā Relaxing In Madina? By Latheef Farook –

For the first time in more than a thousand year history, the island’s Muslim community has been pers…

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  • Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam Speech in Sri Lankan Parliament, Mar 2021 SRI LANKA IS BECOMING A RACIST STATE

    (Speech delivered in Sri Lankan parliament by Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, 25 Mar 2021) I thank you …

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  • නායකයෙක් රටේ සම්පත් කොල්ලකනවනම් ඒ රට මේ තත්ත්වයට වැටෙන එක පුදුම දෙයක් නෙමෙයි – වික්ටර් අයිවන්

  • THE TEARFUL TRAIL – A DOCUMENTARY FILM – Produced by Universal Human Rights Council UHRC -Geneva

  • Will ‘deradicalisation’ in Sri Lanka work? | Inside Story

  • අලුත් දේශපාලන බිල්ලා ගැන මුජිබර්ගෙන් අනතුරු ඇඟවීමක් – අවධානයෙන් සිටින්න – Mujibur Rahman

SRI LANKA

  • No vaccine for rifts among communities; so, be careful By S. H. MOULANA

    I firmly believe in the opinion expressed by MP Harin Fernando, that religions are being …

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  • Why did the Easter Sunday Commission fail to quote directly from original works of Islamic scholars to prove ‘extremism’?

  • Muslims Are Persecuted In Sri Lanka; ACJU Chief Rizvi Mawlānā Relaxing In Madina? By Latheef Farook –

  • Desperate Communities In Search For Justice In Sri Lanka: From Easter Bombing To Racist Attacks! By Mohamed Harees

  • Mannar Island is a bird paradise that survived Sri Lanka’s civil war. Now an Australian mining company wants its sand

ASIA

  • Kashmiris can opt for independence after accession: PM By Tariq Naqash

    Prime minister reiterated Pakistan’s stance that Kashmir dispute can only be resolved by implementing the …

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  • KASHMIR’S FUTURE By A.G. Noorani

  • ‘Daylight loot’: Kashmir farmers suffer as rivers illegally mined By Jehangir Ali

  • China shows it too can play rough in the Middle East By SPENGLER (DAVID P. GOLDMAN)

  • The geopolitics of Myanmar’s black swan coup By MICHAEL VATIKIOTIS

MIDDLE EAST

  • The Debt We Owe Edward Said By Kaleem Hawa

    A conversation with biographer Timothy Brennan about the enduring political and intellectual legacy of the …

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  • The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel uses ‘the law’ to ethnically cleanse East Jerusalem

  • Moves to readmit Syria’s Assad into Arab League Exposes tragic state of affairs of Middle East politics. By Latheef Farook

  • On British colonialism, antisemitism, and Palestinian rights Avi Shlaim

  • Saudi authorities arrest female scholar for teaching Qur’an at home

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  • The Cause of Muslim Weightlessness in the World Today By Zafarul-Islam Khan

    No Muslim living today will deny that contemporary Muslims are hated, despised, and considered backward. …

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  • Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (17 October 1817- 27 March 1898) : A day of introspection and a journey of conviction By Bushra Salahuddin

  • UNHRC Resolution on Lanka: Why no such resolution for US-UK war crimes in Iraq By Latheef Farook

  • Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Peace and Imperatives of our Future by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja

  • Until we return to Islam, the humiliation and the degradation that Muslims face throughout the world today will not change

  • Christopher Columbus & Islam By Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan –

    Epigraph: Despite the narrative handed down by generations of historians, “Columbus’s life simply cannot be …

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  • Nafs:Ego, Self – Personality – How the Quranic concept of nafs contrasts with Freud’s theory of personality development and Nietzsche’s Superman By M. Basheer Ahmed

  • “CHINA REMOVES ALL SIGNS OF ISLAM”

  • Lessons from Khabib ‘The Eagle’ Nurmagomedov – Mufti Menk

  • The Decline of ‘Arabu-Tamil’ Language: A Great Loss to the Sri Lankan Muslim Heritage!

  • அரபு லீக் அமைப்புக்குள் சிரியா ஜனாதிபதி அஸாத்தை மீண்டும் இணைத்துக் கொள்ளும் முயற்சி : மத்திய கிழக்கு அரசியலின் சோகமான நிலவரத்தை வெளிப்படுத்துகின்றது

    சிரியாவின் கொடுங்கோல் ஆட்சியாளர் பஷர் அல் அஸாத்தை மீண்டும் அரபு லீக் அமைப்புக்குள் இணைத்துக் கொள்வதற்கான நடவடிக்கைகள் இடம்பெற்று வருவதாக …

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  • பாப்பரசர் பிரான்ஸிஸின் ஈராக் விஜயம் : இஸ்லாம் ஒரு தெய்வீக மார்க்கம் என்பதை ஏற்றுக் கொண்ட முதலாவது கத்தோலிக்க மதத் தலைவர்

  • ஈஸ்டர் குண்டுத் தாக்குதல் அறிக்கையும் முஸ்லிம்களும் Guest: Lateef Farook Author, Journalist

  • ஹமாஸ் இயக்கத்தின் ஆட்சியியில் உள்ளகாஸா பகுதியில் செழித்தோங்கும் ஜனநாயகம் | லத்தீப் பாரூக

  • நோபல் பரிசுரைக்கு பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள ஜரார்ட் குஷ்னர் லத்தீப் பாரூக்

PALESTINE

  • What did the PA gain for resuming security coordination with Israel?

    By Shatha Hammad Activists say they expect the Palestinian Authority to crackdown on dissent, as Palestinians …

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  • We have lived to see Arabs enter Al-Aqsa under Israeli protection

  • ‘Paradise lost’: How Israel turned the West Bank into a sewage dump for its settlements By Shatha Hammad

  • On 29 November 1947 when UN offered Palestinian lands to Zionist militant Jews to establish a racist state. By Latheef Farook

EUROPE AND USA

  • Guantanamo’s cruelty is medieval. It’s a horror story. And it’s true. By Anjuman Rahman

    Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, faced beatings, electrocution mock executions and sexual humiliation in America’s notorious …

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  • Srebrenica, 25 years on: How genocide denial is adding to survivors’ pain By Peter Oborne, Jan-Peter Westad

  • US says visa applicants denied by Trump ‘Muslim ban’ can reapply

  • Turkey’s footprint spreading far and wide in Africa By JONATHAN GORVETT

  • Biden’s Saudi Arabia problem By Ishaan Tharoor

ISLAM & MUSLIMS

  • Christopher Columbus & Islam By Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan –

    Epigraph: Despite the narrative handed down by generations of historians, “Columbus’s life simply cannot be …

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  • Nafs:Ego, Self – Personality – How the Quranic concept of nafs contrasts with Freud’s theory of personality development and Nietzsche’s Superman By M. Basheer Ahmed

  • “CHINA REMOVES ALL SIGNS OF ISLAM”

  • Lessons from Khabib ‘The Eagle’ Nurmagomedov – Mufti Menk

  • The Decline of ‘Arabu-Tamil’ Language: A Great Loss to the Sri Lankan Muslim Heritage!

New Articles

  • Kashmiris can opt for independence after accession: PM By Tariq Naqash
  • KASHMIR’S FUTURE By A.G. Noorani
  • No vaccine for rifts among communities; so, be careful By S. H. MOULANA
  • Why did the Easter Sunday Commission fail to quote directly from original works of Islamic scholars to prove ‘extremism’?
  • Muslims Are Persecuted In Sri Lanka; ACJU Chief Rizvi Mawlānā Relaxing In Madina? By Latheef Farook –

A book on the forcible cremation of Muslim corona dead By Latheef Farook

About Author

Journalist and Author Latheef Farook’s Profile

Latheef Farook began his journalistic career with the now defunct Independent Newspapers in 1966 before joining the Lake House Group of newspapers in 1971 where he worked with the Ceylon Daily News and the evening daily Ceylon Observer covering local politics and foreign affairs besides finance and economic sectors.

Simultaneously working as the Sri Lankan correspondent for Middle Eastern news agencies following local response to developments in the Middle East, he also concentrated on economic developments in the international scene, especially in the developing world.

In 1976, Ceylon Daily News nominated him for the United Nations sponsored Dag Hammarskjöld scholarship for Third World journalists. In 1979, he led a group of ten Sri Lankan journalists to Dubai where he relaunched English language daily “Gulf News”.

A year later he joined the Khaleej Times where he covered for seven years almost every aspect of United Arab Emirates’ development program, besides covering the Indian elections of 1979, which brought Ms. Indira Gandhi to power. Rejoining the Gulf News in 1987 he worked as the Gulf News Bureau Chief in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia where he filed regular articles on the Gulf’s and Middle East’s sensitive political scenes, economy, finance, banking and social problems besides extensively interviewing visiting world leaders.

After almost a quarter century living and working in the Gulf, he returned home to Colombo in March 2003 where he began supplying feature articles on almost every aspect of Sri Lanka aimed at catering to Sri Lankan expatriates in the Gulf region, Europe, the Americas and the Far East. Hand in hand he also began writing books on the current local and international scenes. more

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