http://www.salaam.co.uk/news Salaam News - the muslim spin on the events that matter The US Air Force's new slogan, "Air Force - Above All" conveys the basic precept that mastery of the air means mastery of the ground. Yet the air force seeks more than that. It wants to extend its "mastery" to space and even to cyberspace. This is a disturbing manifestation of the military's quest for "full spectrum dominance", achieved at debilitating cost to the American taxpayer - and a potentially destabilizing one to the planet. It takes shock and awe to a new level of barbarity! Friday 09th May 2008 Politics http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252706 The declining value of the US dollar, and with it the wealth of all countries linked to it, has prompted US-friendly oil states such as Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to consider ending their US dollar currency pegs. The history of the region holds the answer to their quest for an alternative. Friday 09th May 2008 Business http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252705 As demonization of Iran increases, US-designated terrorist groups are encouraged to unleash terror on civilians. Foreign jihadists and the cultist Mujahideen e-Khalq are attempting to destabilize Iran with the financial and military backing of regional and western countries. Friday 09th May 2008 Politics http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252704 Hired guns are running riot in Iraq as they dutifully carry out Washington's dirty work. Wanton killings and abuse of civilians are the norm rather than an exception as these psychopathic death squads unleash shock and awe barbarity on an unprecedented scale. Their handler in Washington, chief psychopath in team-Bush, Dick Cheney, must be summarily dispatched to the Hague, on his departure from the White House, to face war crimes charges. Friday 09th May 2008 Law http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252702 From a president charged for rape, to a comatose former prime minister and a current one accused of sleaze and corruption, the Judaic state lies mutilated at the hands of its protectors. For all the triumphalism of its religious ethic, the criminal antics of its leaders simply lays bare the true nature of the zionist project. Friday 09th May 2008 Politics http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252703 Apologists for zionist ethnic cleansing, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity are determined to maintain the staus quo that encourages the gradual annihilation of the Palestinian people. These cheerleaders need to be ostracised and shamed for providing decades of intellectual cover for these crimes. Friday 09th May 2008 Politics http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252700 A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights. The Shariah court in Penang granted Siti Fatimah Tan Abdullah's request to be declared a non-Muslim. She embraced Islam in 1998 because she wanted to marry an Iranian, but claimed she never truly practiced the religion. Friday 09th May 2008 Law http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252701 The Jewish Power 100 list names the people deemed to be the most influential in shaping British Jewish life. The Power 100 features rabbis, philanthropists, journalists and academics. It also includes non-Jews, so Gordon Brown is a new entry at 29, although his position is 13 places lower than his predecessor, Tony Blair. The top spot is retained by Sir Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi for the biggest Jewish movement in the country, the United Synagogues. Friday 09th May 2008 Politics http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252699 Seven Pillars of Wisdom was hailed on its first appearance as a historical and literary masterpiece. But, argues Robert Fisk, this memoir of the Arab revolt, and T E Lawrence's other writings, also offer prescient warnings about western policy in the Middle East. Friday 09th May 2008 Politics http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252707 While Washington insiders wonder and worry whether President Bush really is bent on a military strike against Iran, John McCain's preacher, Pastor John Hagee already has spent months mobilizing the shock troops in support of another war. The televangelist aims to put the political organizing muscle of the conservative evangelical movement behind his grand plan for a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation, and Second Coming of Christ. He speaks not only of good against evil, believer against nonbeliever, Judeo-Christian civilization against Islamic civilization, but of an American-Israeli alliance against the rest of the world. He plays on conservative disdain for anything European, while promoting the Bush unilateralist mentality that has had catastrophic results in Iraq. A nuclear confrontation between America and Iran, which he says is foretold in the Book of Jeremiah, will not lead to the end of the world, but rather to God's renewal of the Garden of Eden. But he also reveals that he is ultimately less concerned with the fate of Israel or the Jews than with a theocratic Christian right agenda. When Jesus returns for his millennial reign, the righteous are going to rule the nations of the earth! Thursday 08th May 2008 Politics http://www.salaam.co.uk/news/index.php#252693