Friday, 6 September 2013

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office,President Barack Obama stressed the point this week, saying: "So let me be clear: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat, but we need to make sure that it stays that way.Americans typically eat about 4 pounds a year — and Louisiana is tops in U.S. shrimp production. Still, the shrimp market is global and only about 7 percent of shrimp consumed in the U.S. comes from the Gulf, according to the National Fisheries Institute, a trade group.
Wild shrimp from the Gulf typically compete with farmed shrimp from Asia and South America, and seafood dealers say have been able to turn to these other sources, at least for now.
“We’re always used to substitutions, we deal a lot with Mother Nature,” said Frank Monte of Lockwood & Winant at New York City’s Fulton Fish Market.
Seafood dealers say they are not seeing oil-contaminated product — a sensitive point among Gulf seafood producers who worry that customers will avoid eating their catch. President Barack Obama stressed the point this week, saying: “So let me be clear: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat, but we need to make sure that it stays that way.”

Monday, 17 September 2012


The Seven Earths

Their Existence and their Location

It may come as a surprise to some of our readers to find that the Qur'an teaches that Allah created seven earths.
"It is Allah Who has created seven heavens, and earths as many ..." S. 65:12, F. Malik's translation
What should we understand these seven earths to be? Earth in the sense of a land mass, i.e. seven continents located on our one planet earth? Other planets similar to our earth? Before we can evaluate whether this Quranic statement is true, i.e. decide about its scientific correctness, we need to clarify the exact understanding of these ‘seven earths’, particularly how Muhammad understood them. The teaching on the seven earths is found in the early Islamic data, the ahadith and commentaries on the Qur'an.

Friday, 14 September 2012

U.S. Embassy

Yemeni protesters break a window of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. Dozens of protesters gather in front of the US Embassy in Sanaa to protest against the American film "The Innocence of Muslims" deemed blasphemous and Islamophobic. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

identified Nakoula Basseley


Law enforcement has identified Nakoula Basseley Nakoula as the man behind "Innocence of Muslims," the anti-Islam movie that is widely blamed for riots around the world, the AP reports.
Nakoula had previously claimed he had a role in the film's creation, but insisted he was not the director. Earlier reports centered around a certain Sam Bacile, but many doubts have been cast on Bacile's identity. Cell phones tied to Bacile and Nakoula traced to the same address.
From the AP's earlier reporting:
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, told The Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles Wednesday that he managed logistics for the company that produced "Innocence of Muslims," which mocked Muslims and the prophet Muhammad.
The movie has been blamed for inflaming mobs that attacked U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya this week as well as U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Thursday.
Nakoula ran afoul of the law in 2010, when he pleaded no contest to federal bank fraud charges after being indicted in a somewhat intricate scheme involving fake bank accounts created using stolen Social Security numbers. He was given a 21 month prison sentence and had to pay $790,000.

Thursday, 13 September 2012

More protests near in Jos Nigeria


More protests near U.S. Embassy in Cairo


Demonstrations spread over anti-Islam film

Protesters angered by an anti-Islam film have stormed the US embassy compound in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, as similar demonstrations have spread to several countries across the Middle East.
The protesters on Thursday removed the embassy's sign on the outer wall and brought down the US flag and burned it, according to witnesses.


A number of diplomatic vehicle were torched as security forces used water cannons and warning shots in a bid to drive them out.


In the Iranian capital, Tehran, up to 500 people protested over the issue chanting "Death to America!" and death to the movie's director, an AFP photographer at the scene said.The rally, near the Swiss embassy that handles US interests in the absence of US-Iran diplomatic ties, ended peacefully two hours later.(By Aljazeera)