Archive for July 29th, 2010
An Islamic ‘marriage-with-relinquished-rights’ gone awry in UK
asharq alawsat | By Dr. Hamad Al-Majid | 29 July 2010 The Misyar Question! A Nikah al-Misyar is a contract of marriage that meets all the conditions of a valid marriage contract under Islamic law --essentially, offer and acceptance by both parties, a specified dowry, and the consent of the guardian--but incorporates a voluntary relinquishment [...]
Exhibition to commemorate the U.S. bombing of Japan
Times of India |29 July 2010 Atom-bomb exhibition to be held in London HIROSHIMA: The annihilation of mankind in Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings in World War II by the US will be on exhibit next month at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum here. The exhibition, "After the Bomb Dropped: How Hiroshima and Nagasaki Suffered," will run [...]
Remembering the only use of nuclear weapons, killing 215,000 innocent civilians
RIA Novosti | 29 July 2010 UN chief to pay tribute to victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Japan next week to pay tribute to the victims of U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II and hold talks with the country's government, UN spokesman [...]
