King Abdulaziz Medallion For Obama

I think Obama's very very lucky. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King presented Barack Obama, US President with Saudi Arabia's highest honor "The King Abdul Aziz Medallion" .
Talks between Abdullah and US President Barack Obama in Riyadh yesterday focused on joint efforts, closer coordination and more Saudi support to revive the Middle East peace process while many other regional and international issues were also taken up for discussion by the two leaders. Some of them included the nuclear standoff with Iran, oil and global energy market as well as US relations with the Muslim world.

"I thought it was very important to come to the place where Islam began and to seek his majesty's counsel and to discuss with him many of the issues that we confront here in the Middle East," Obama said before the talks.

On the Middle East peace process, Obama said that there are a lot of Israelis "who recognize that their current path is unsustainable, and they need to make some tough choices on settlements to achieve a two-state solution — that is in their long-term interest — but not enough folks are willing to recognize that publicly."

The US president appealed that leaders in the region should be more candid about their concerns.

"Stop saying one thing behind closed doors and saying something else publicly," he said. "There are a lot of Arab countries more concerned about Iran developing a nuclear weapon than the 'threat' from Israel, but won't admit it."

The US president said he was confident that, working together, the United States and Saudi Arabia could make progress on a host of issues for the benefit of the two countries.

"Obviously, the United States and Saudi Arabia have a long history of friendship, we have a strategic relationship," Obama said.

King Abdullah thanked Obama for visiting Saudi Arabia. and dialog also focused on cooperation in the fight against terrorism. On this tour Obama is scheduled visiting Cairo where he will deliver his much-awaited speech to try to build bridges with the Muslim world. He will also meet with President Hosni Mubarak.
well this is an opportunity to say to the world that Islam is Rahmatan lil'alamin not terorrist!
source from islamtoday

Bush is a Liar

I do not know actually, why people so easy to tell about lie. Especially if it is come from the leader of the country. Maybe for other people it's not matter but for me it's so serious. In one time he said about humanitarian issue but in another time he cannot cover about the international crime in Gaza. Because US politic foreign affairs always support the Israeli as his goldenboy.
After the Iraqi war, Afghanistan and always accused Islam as terorrist so what you can say if the fact is like this news.
Meanwhile Barack Obama said Friday President George W. Bush was a "good guy" who loved his country, but warned he would leave the United States struggling with the result of "bad choices."

When he is sworn in on Tuesday, Obama will inherit two foreign wars and the worst economy since the 1930s Great Depression with the budget deficit forecast to hit more than a trillion dollars this year."I always thought he was a good guy," Democrat Obama said, when asked in a CNN interview.

"I think personally he is a good man who loves his family and loves his country and I think he made the best decisions that he could at times under some very difficult circumstances.

Please Mister Obama, Your President (will become former president) has disrespect to international laws and agreements has made him to be the worst USA president among the people and in the world.
·Violating UN Charter.
·Violating Geneva Conventions Protocol.
·Violating Treaty on the Non – Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
·Rejecting Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty.
·Withdrawing from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
·Withdrawing from 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
·Opposing to International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty.
·Abstaining from signing Land Mine Treaty, banning land mines.
·Violating Hague Conventions( The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict ). This Convention was signed 14 May 1954; entered into force 7 August 1956), In spite of this convention, U.S. soldiers looted Iraq multi millennium cultural heritage in attacking to Iraq and transferred them to U.S .of America.
·Changing laws relating to environment that U.S. has been protecting it during past thirty years.
·Shaming decision-maker organization like United Nations with exploiting of actions outside of International Laws framework.
The Big Mark question is : Is this the democracy Mister President Bush was calling the Arab and we the Muslim world to adopt? ...... Chkchkchk

Israel doesn't want the world to see their crimes

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Forum of Palestinian Media Workers (FPMW) condemned on Friday the IOF attacks on Palestinian journalists, calling for these aggressions to be investigated.

The FPMW said in a statement on Friday that there was an escalation of attacks on Journalists, adding that on Thursday an Israeli occupation rocket hit the flat of Palestinian photo-journalist Ihab al-Whidi, 34 years, killing him and his mother in law and wounding his wife and children.

On Friday evening an Israeli occupation drone, fired a rocket at al-Jawhara tower which houses media offices and journalists were on its rooftop reporting what is happening in Gaza. The attack resulted in the wounding one of the journalists.

The statement also said that the Abu Dhabi television cameraman was wounded on Wednesday while covering events in Rafah.

Two journalists working for al-Alam satellite channel were arrested on Tuesday and are still being questioned at the Petah Tikva police station.

All these events and others before them prove that the Israeli occupation targets journalists because they do not want the world to see their crimes.

The statement added that more than a month before the start of the Israeli occupation military aggression, the occupation authorities barred foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip in preparation for committing massacres. Only a small number of foreign journalists were allowed in after legal action taken by those journalists.

Once it's not Enough For Israeli to Kill Innocent children

GAZA, (PIC)--The Israeli aerial raids on northern Gaza on Wednesday evening killed five Palestinian citizens of the same family including a 40-year-old father and his three children Tawfik, 10, Habib, 12, and Mohammed, 15, along with their cousin.

Three little sisters Amal, 2, Suad, 4, and Samar, 6, were killed earlier the same day in an IOF artillery barrage at their homes in Jabalia shortly after expiry of the three hours lull announced by the Israeli occupation forces on daily basis starting Wednesday to allow citizens to purchase their supplies and to facilitate the entry of relief material into Gaza.

Locals said that the three children remained under the rubble for a few hours before the rescue squads could reach their home and retrieve their bodies from under the rubble.

Local sources in northern Gaza said that even during the three-hour lull IOF troops opened their machineguns at citizens who got out of their homes to buy their needs in Jabalia killing four and wounding 10 others.

The sources said that two paramedics were among the casualties after rushing to the scene to evacuate the martyrs and the wounded. The death toll of the continued Israeli wanton aggression on the Gaza Strip rose to more than 700 Palestinians, half of them were children and women, and the injuries to at least 3,100.

Dr. Muawaiya Hassanein, the director of the ambulance and emergency in the health ministry, stated that the number of children rose to 230 and the women to 100.

Israel had intensified on Tuesday its military raids on civilian houses and UN schools sheltering hundreds of innocent Palestinians which resulted in the death of more than 135 civilians in one day.

In another context, Hamas political leader Mohamed Nazzal on Wednesday said that the Palestinian resistance fighters spearheaded by Al-Qassam Brigades managed to kill and wound more than 130 Israeli soldiers in five days.

In a statement to the Aqsa satellite channel, Nazzal added that the Palestinian resistance had killed since the start of the Israeli military aggression on Gaza more than 30 Israeli officers and soldiers and wounded more than 100 others including the commander of the Golani special unit.

Israel, for its part, alleged that only seven soldiers were killed and 103 others were wounded after they were met with fierce resistance during military operations.

The IOF troops also claimed that its warplanes on Wednesday bombed more than 40 Palestinian targets including tunnels in south Gaza in addition to 10 rocket launch areas, but all international reports refute such Israeli allegations, saying that Israel deliberately targets civilians, houses and mosques after failing to deal with the resistance.

source : save palestine

Muslimah

When I receive email from my friend, I think it's very interesting to post this because as women we have to know what is our right as women in Islam and here is the article come from Middleeast.
Arab women lose again, this time in Kuwait
By Najla Al Awadhi, Special to Gulf News and published on June 06, 2008
For a second time in Kuwait's history, 27 women ran for parliament, and for the second time no Kuwaiti woman was elected.

What followed, was the appointment of two women by the Kuwaiti government to ministerial posts, and while they stood up to take the oath of office, nine parliamentarians from the self proclaimed "Islamist" and "tribal" groups stormed out in protest. They were claiming that the women ministers were in breach of the electoral laws, because they were not wearing the hijab (headscarf).

Kuwait's Islamist and tribal groups, who now dominate the parliament, have always opposed the presence of women in political office.

I followed the Kuwaiti elections and the debates with much interest. What amused me was the dialogue of whether Kuwaiti women were experienced enough to run for parliament, and what amazed me was the impassioned objection to women's participation from many who claimed that Islam and our traditions do not allow women to run for high political posts.

This took me back to over 1,400 years ago to a time in Arabia where it was common practice to bury alive female children as a precaution to avoid family shame, at a time where a man could marry a hundred wives and discard them with impunity, because a woman was akin to property.
It was in this age there lived a woman who was a widow and a trader. In her employment there was a kind, diligent, trustworthy man, 20 years her junior, and eventually she would ask him for his hand in marriage.
Can you imagine me asking for a man's hand in marriage today, 20 years my junior and the scandal that would cause? Some men even today are not comfortable with the idea of working for a woman. Yet this was Arabia over 1,400 years ago; the man in this story is the Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him); and the woman in this story was his wife Khadija.

When the Prophet received his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel, he was overwhelmed with fear. It was Khadija who stood by him and calmed him and told him it was a sign of prophecy. Khadija was anything but conventional or submissive. She was bold, intelligent, kind and strong willed, and for the Prophet of Islam, she was the perfection of a woman.

Legacy

Her legacy is a message to all Muslims that women have not been created to be submissive or marginalised. Like a man, a woman must be the master of her own destiny and an active and equal partner in striving to develop more humane societies. This means being active in all spheres of life, including the political sphere where public policy is shaped.

So if Khadija was the perfection of a Muslim/Arab woman and if we were to build upon her legacy in terms of empowering women in our age, then why are we here in the Arab World in 2008 with not even one woman elected into Kuwait's parliament?

Partially, because we as women don't have enough faith in the ability of our sisters to lead, and this is due to our own self-ignorance and the lack of true solidarity between Arab and Muslim women in our societies.

In addition, it's partially because many men still view women's ability and role as limited. Also, many in their interpretations believe that religiously and traditionally a woman's place is outside the political sphere and preferably confined to the home.

Quota systems are a part of the solution to empowerment and gender equity, but greater than that is the need for the mass comprehension in our societies that the empowerment of women is not about women's rights or feminism.

The empowerment of women is a legacy Islam has granted us. It is an issue of human rights and primarily of survival which is linked to our region's goals of economic and sustainable development.

When you look at our population today, when you look at the demographics and the shrinking number of our citizens in many parts of the Gulf, you begin to realise that we need to be aggressive about empowering and tapping into all our human capital, regardless of gender, with a strict focus on ability and potential. This naturally gives us greater resources in our journey towards sustainable development.

So in the footsteps of the wife of the Prophet, I hope we as Muslims and Arabs will remember her legacy when we make judgments about the role of women in our society. I hope too that our Kuwaiti sisters will persevere, because I have always believed, that yes, a woman's place is at home but at the same time, it is also in the parliament.

Najla Al Awadhi is a member of the Federal National Council, Deputy CEO Dubai Media Incorporated and General Manager of Dubai One TV.

link to http://www.Muslimah Media Watch.blogspot.com, and you have to read.
thankyou