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Crescent International Monthly Journal, April, 2015Crescent International is a publication of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), Toronto, CanadaHas the Bani Saud made one mistake too many by attacking Yemen? If the conflict drags on, it is likely to bring down the Najdi Bedouins’ sand castles.It is easy to …

Why the leave their homes every year on 13th of the Iranian month of Farwardin?Purim is a Jewish religious festival and holiday that commemorates the aborting of plan by Haman, royal vizier to King Xerxes I (Khashayar Shah) of Iran, who reigned in the Achaemenid Iranian Empire from 486 to. …

Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study of ancient remains has found.Tumours were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature found.A greater understanding of its origins could lead to treatments for …

January 10, 2015 “ICH” – The statement by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on 22 December 2014: “If the Russian side needs it, we will provide necessary assistance within our capacity” – is a clear testimony that Russia and China have entered into an economic alliance which will be stronger …

In the name of God, the Beneficent the MercifulTo the Youth in Europe and North America,The recent events in France and similar ones in some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook your parents, …

SalaamImamia Medics International will have its 8th Conference here in Iran. The event will be from 28th July to 10th August, 2015; beginning from Mashhad and then to Tehran, Qom, Isfahan and Shiraz. It will be an intellectual, spiritual and social event of IMI friends, physicians, medical students and researchers, …

To start with, it has to be repeated here, as it has in countless other such pieces, that Islam and Muslims condemn without apology and excuse any shedding of innocent blood, anywhere and everywhere in the world by whomever it may have been perpetrated. The same goes for Paris’s Charlie …

New York, USAThe Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is our Frankenstein. The United States after a decade of war in Iraq pieced together its body parts. We jolted it into life. We bathed it in blood and trauma. And we gave it its intelligence. Its dark and vicious …

Ill-temper is a aberrance that causes depression and truculence. It is the opposite of moral conduct. Often the repercussions of ill-temper intensify to the degree that it results in a variety of tragedies and physical and mental crises. The meanness of ill-temper appears clearly through God’s words addressed to the …

It goes like this: We are all made of energy, electromagnetic waves and harmonic vibrations and a zillion throbbing electro-particles pulsing and spinning in quietly charged fields, all manner of happy ions floating in micro oceans of water and blood and vodka and we are humming and singing in what …