Yâ Sîn. Bunyi ayat pertama sekaligus nama surah ini merupakan panggilan kesayangan yang khusus Allah berikan kepada setiap hamba yang membacanya. Allah menyeru pembaca “Jantung Alquran” ini untuk
berjuang menyebarkan kasih sayang.
Ketika ditimpa berbagai penderitaan, seseorang memerlukan pijakan yang amat kuat, yang kukuh. Ketika dakwah Nabi Muhammad dilecehkan, dan bahkan Nabi sendiri mulai diserang, Surah Yasin diturunkan untuk memperkukuh basis perjuangannya dalam menegakkan keadilan dan kasih sayang, yang sering kali diringkas menjadi penegakan kebenaran. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Menyingkap Rahasia Kecerdasan Berdasarkan Al-Quran dan Neurosains Mutakhir (Edisi 2008, hard cover)
Author : Taufiq Pasiak, Publisher : Mizan, Our Price : Rp. 102.600,00
Buku ini menyoroti dan menguak tirai misteri struktur dan fungsi otak yang amat kompleks, dengan menggunakan ungkapan yang mudah dicerna. Ia bahkan diperkaya dengan kajian metafisik di balik tirai struktural dan fungsional otak. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Sumber : BBC Indonesia, Diperbaharui pada: 19 Agustus, 2008 – Published 18:03 GMT
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| Brick Lane dari East London Mosque, salah satu masjid nesar London |
Masyarakat Muslim Inggris sebagian besar terdiri dari para pendatang yang terutama berasal dari Pakistan, Bangladesh dan India.
Gelombang kedatangan para imigran Muslim Inggris bermula pada tahun 1950an dan 1960an, dan sampai sekarang warna anak benua India masih kental dalam identitas kaum Muslim Inggris.
Pemerintah Inggris sekarang getol mendorong pembentukan identitas Muslim yang khas. Apakah ini bisa terjadi dan bagaimana bentuknya?
Setiap hari Jum’at Masjid Brick Lane di London Timur dipenuhi jemaah yang datang dari jalan-jalan di sekitarnya dan bahkan orang-orang Bangladesh yang tinggal di bagian lain kota London. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Diperbaharui pada: 08 Juli, 2008 – Published 11:12 GMT
Sumber : BBC Siaran Indonesia, Posting, 31 Agustus 2008
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| Parpol pada pemilu 2009 berjumlah 34 sementara thaun 2004 berjumlah 24 partai |
Kampanye bagi pemilihan umum 2009 secara resmi dimulai hari Sabtu 12/7 dimana pemilu akan diikuti 34 partai.
Partai peserta pemilu bertekad untuk melaksanakan kampanye secara santun, tertib dan damai.
Namun dengan begitu banyaknya partai yang berusaha untuk mendapatkan dukungan, bagaimana menurut anda, apakah kampanye akan bisa berlangsung tanpa gangguan.
Apakah kampanye di dalam ruangan seperti yang dimulai minggu ini akan berguna bagi masyarakat luas untuk bisa mengetahui keberadaan partai ?
Selain nama-nama partai yang sudah diketahui masyarakat banyak seperti PDI-P, PPP, PKB, PAN, Partai Demokrat, dan Golkar, partai-partai baru harus bisa mengyakinkan masyarakat untuk memilih mereka. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Sumber :Charlotte Observer via Yahoo! Alert By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer, Posted: Friday, Oct. 03, 2008
LONDON Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Muhammad’s child bride made a brief court appearance Friday after being charged with plotting to damage the offices of Gibson Square publishers.
Ali Beheshti, 40, Abrar Mirza, 22, and Abbas Taj, 30, Beheshti also were charged with possession of a weapon designed or adapted for the discharge of a noxious liquid or gas – reportedly a gasoline bomb. No one was injured in the incident.
The suspects were returned to jail and their next court appearance is set for Oct. 17.
They were arrested early Sept. 27 under anti-terrorism laws, but were not charged with any terrorist offenses. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Sumber : Yahoo! News via Yahoo! Alerts, By Joseph Nasr Tue Sep 30, 10:41 PM ET
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – For 15 years Israeli Saleh Abbasi has traded books between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors, fostering a rare cultural link.
But in August Israeli authorities suddenly refused to renew his trading license because he was trading with “enemy” states Lebanon and Syria, frustrating both Abbasi’s business and the Arab and Israeli readers he has helped interest in each other’s literary traditions.
“How can the People of the Book be against books?” Abbasi asked, evoking the Jewish Bible as the first monotheistic holy text. “Books are a bridge to peace between cultures.” Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Sumber : Guardian.co.uk via Yahoo! Alert, By Kenan Malik, guardian.co.uk, Articles History
Inayat Bunglawala is wrong; a culture of self-censorship is the real legacy of the reaction to The Satanic Verses By Kenan Malik
Inayat Bunglawala thinks I talk “pure twaddle”. Why? Because I suggested in an article about the firebombers who last week attacked the offices of the publishers Gibson Square that part of the problem is that too many liberals have come to accept that it is “morally unacceptable to give offence”.
Not so, said Inayat. “If anyone has given ground in this debate,” he suggested, “it is surely those who once believed in banning books because they regarded them as being ‘offensive’.”
Inayat himself has certainly given ground. Once a campaigner against The Satanic Verses, he now believes that no one has the right not to be offended. Inayat’s welcome change of heart should not, however, blind him (or us) to the fact that much of the rest of the world has been marching in the opposite direction. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Dennis Lehane’s ambitious new novel evokes a dark chapter of US history.
Sumber : The Christian Science Monitor, By Carlo Wolff | September 29, 2008 edition
A war-fatigued nation confronts an overheated economy, a tangle of vengeful terrorist organizations, rising joblessness, and racial tension. It sure sounds contemporary but The Given Day, Dennis Lehane’s wildly ambitious new novel, is set in Boston toward the end of World War I.
Lehane is best known for “Mystic River” and “Gone, Baby, Gone,” Boston-based police thrillers that double as morality tales even as they peer into the hearts of dysfunctional families and build on complex layers of honor.
But this time, in his eighth novel, Lehane dips back into the past. It’s an enthralling journey and one that reaffirms the imagination and narrative vigor of Lehane.
“The Given Day” mixes fact and fiction in epic fashion by swirling such historical figures as Babe Ruth, Communist author John Reed, J. Edgar Hoover, and Calvin Coolidge in with fictional characters. The primary focus of the book is the failed Boston police strike of 1919. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Sumber : Yahoo! News via Yahoo! Alert, Wed Oct 1, 7:06 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) – Author Salman Rushdie has no regrets about writing “The Satanic Verses“, he said in comments published on Wednesday, 20 years after the release of the book which earned him an Islamic death threat.
Rushdie, who lived in hiding under police protection for nearly a decade, made the comments amid concern over an attack in London on the publisher of a controversial new book about the Prophet Mohammed.
The Indian-born writer said he would regret not having written a book taking on major religious and philosophical questions.
“The question I’m always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history or does history make us? Do we shape the world or are we just shaped by it?” he said in an interview with Australian broadcaster Clive James.
“The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question and one that I have always tried to ask.
“In that sense I wouldn’t not have wanted to be the writer that asked it,” he added, in comments published on James’ website.
Rushdie, who was raised as a Sunni Muslim, has lived since 1989 under the shadow of an Iranian fatwa — or religious decree — calling for his death over his controversial book published the previous year. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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Sumber : Stuff via Yahoo! Alert Sunday, 28 September 2008
Terrorism arrests in North London have been linked to plans to publish in New Zealand and Britain a controversial book on the prophet Muhammad and his child bride.
The arrests are connected to a fire at a property in Islington, north London, which is used as the home and office of Martin Rynja, a publisher whose company, Gibson Square, plans to publish in New Zealand the book The Jewel of Medina, The Telegraph reported.
The blaze may have been started by a petrol bomb pushed through the letterbox.
Initially, three men, aged 22, 30 and 40, were detained at around 2.25am. Two were stopped by armed officers in Lonsdale Square, and the third was seized when a car was stopped by armed police near Angel underground station. The men were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
A major publishing group, Random House US, announced in May this year that it was dropping its plans to publish the debut novel by American journalist Sherry Jones, of Spokane, Washington, following warnings that it could incite acts of violence from radical Muslims. Baca entri selengkapnya »
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