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I saw this programme and was appalled at the Muslim family portrayed.
It seemed that the father was going out of his way to portray Muslims as unjust to their wives.
He is on benefits without a job for three years.
His wife is shown as tired but resigned to her fate.
He says he has a Phd but acts like this.

How did he agree to being portrayed like this?
He is obviously wrong in how he treats his wife. However It is bad enough for Muslims without this person putting himself on the media to portray Muslims as parasites on the social security as well as domineering over their wives?

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Mistreatment of employees - Saudi style

Quotes:

The female employer, who admitted the abuse and was originally sentenced to 35 lashes, had her sentence overturned.

Ms Miyati, 25, contracted gangrene after allegedly being tied up for a month and left without food in 2005. She had to have several fingers and toes amputated.

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What a distressing article? Is it any wonder Muslims are suffering all over the world?
A common misunderstanding of non-Muslims is that Islam is backwards and that they are bringing civilisation to the Muslims. These sort of reports only further reinforces this misconception.

Ten Commandments or Torah

Surah 7 Verse 142

For me, there was the misconception that Musa (alayhis salaam) only received the ten commandments on the mountain Tur. Well this is wrong! He received the entire Torah there.

He had to wait 40 days to meet Allah. He fasted for those days as he waited. Allah told him that He liked the smell from the mouth of a fasting person. It mentions thirty and ten, one reason is

Originally it was meant to be thirty, Musa (alayhis salaam) fasted for those days. When he was about meet, he gargled his mouth. However Allah told him something to the effect that He liked the smell. And was told to fast another ten days.

He met Allah on the 10th Zilhajj, which is Eid-ul-Adha. Another reason to celebrate this day.

The next verse demonstrates the weakness of man in being able to see Allah. Even the mountain could not bear it.

Persian Pipelines

In fact only one supplier could now make Nabucco commercially viable - Iran. Iranian natural resources could play just as important a strategic role for the EU as they did for Britain in the wake of the great discovery a century ago. Their size and location remain the key: Iran's deposits of natural gas are reckoned to be second only to Russia's, and could be fed into western Europe through an extension of the existing Tabriz-Ankara pipeline.

But massive pressure from Washington makes this unlikely. Iran cannot export gas without massive foreign investment, but only last week Shell and Repsol bowed to this pressure and announced that they would not be pursuing plans to develop Iran's vast South Pars gas field.

The irony is, of course, obvious, for Iran is the one country that could counter the influence of another of Washington's great rivals. Scarcely could there be a better reminder that in foreign affairs, it is always dangerous to unnecessarily take too confrontational an approach.

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Alcohol Related Admissions Doubled in Hospitals

Alcohol was the main or secondary cause of 207,800 NHS admissions in 2006/7, compared to 93,500 in 1995/96.

There has also been a 20% rise in the number of GP prescriptions for treating alcohol dependency in the past four years, the NHS Information Centre said.

The NHS spends £217million a year on specialist alcohol treatment and I have just launched a £6 million campaign to make sure people know their units and know how much they're drinking

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Drinking diaries: A doctor's verdict

How people know little about how much they drink?

Are 60 Years of Agony and 94 Years of Deception Not Enough?

I know that some may question my motive in drudging up such old statements. I can already hear the dismissive chants of "living in the past" from some quarters and, indeed, my leaning so far back into history is a reluctant one. But unlike most of the major injustices of the past two centuries that are, by and large, recognised as such, and in many cases accorded varying degrees of redemptive gestures and closure (as in the apology of the Australian Prime Minister to the Aborigines and the Vatican apology over the Holocaust), the deception and suffering flowing from Zionism, and its various manifestations in the West of hostility towards Muslims, continues as though the historical record is of no consequence.

As little or no Muslim land remains to be conquered, these Zionist forces persist by charting for themselves entire new territories for invasion. Under the pretext of fighting terror, now even mosques, Muslim schools, religious conscience, and the day to day practice of every Muslim have become targets for invasive intervention.

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Pharaoh and Musa (alayhis salaam)

Surah 7 Verse 123

Pharoah now has to take the authority again. He therefore asks them how the magicians could believe in Allah without his permission. He then accuses them of plotting with Prophet Musa (alayhis salaam). This again makes the miracle look just like a plot and makes him look strong again.

Pharoah then threatens them with torture. But the magicians are steadfast. They pray to Allah in a beautiful prayer Verse 126

Then Pharoah's circle, encourage him to take action. They cannot lose their worldly positions to the Prophet alayhis salaam. Verse 127 quotes them saying what can be transalted as ' we will prevail'. Funny how we hear people saying similar phrases today. The arrogance is clear.

The next verse shows how Prophet Musa's own people are complaining. They do not sound very grateful.