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Velvet revolution impossible in Iran

 Velvet Revolution impossible in Iran

By Gisoo Misha Ahmadi, Press TV, Tehran
 
The following is Press TV’s interview with Seyyed Morteza Nabavi, a member of Iran’s Expediency Council and Head of the Resalat daily

Press TV:Let’s go back to 30 years ago. In your opinion, what personality traits did the founder of the Islamic Revolution Imam Khomeini have which enabled him to lead the greatest revolution of the century?

Nabavi: Imam Khomeini was a religious, political leader but the deep influence he had over the people had to with his religious characteristics. Imam Khomeini had deep cultural and spiritual insight. People were attracted to his because he spoke of the Divine of Islamic teachings which have been the answer to all our needs throughout history and will never be out-dated.

 

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Obituary mf choonara 3 11 1949 to 9 04 2011

By Iqbal Jassat – Chairman, Media Review Network

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The Late MF Choonara

Saturday, April 9 marks the day South African Muslims shared their grief as the country’s foremost humanitarian activist was laid to rest at Avalon cemetery, south of Johannesburg.

Mohamed Farid Choonara, a doyen of relief aid work across Africa and pioneer of Islamic Da’wah (outreach) breathed his last following a short spell of illness.

Known to many as MF, his contribution to the development of Islam embraced a multifaceted approach. Having emerged as a youth leader in the early ’70s when he played a crucial part in the formation of the Muslim Youth Movement (MYM), the young lad enthusiastically consolidated MYM branches in most parts of the old Transvaal.  

This period and later years when MF was elected as the Movement’s national director was characterised by frequent clashes with the apartheid state’s security thugs. His position as the voice of Muslim youth included the responsibility of ensuring that state organs of repression didn’t succeed in shutting down MYM’s monthly paper ‘al Qalam’ which was frequently raided and banned.

It was during this period – in the prime of his youth – when MF relocated to Durban with his family and directed a host of national MYM initiatives that snowballed into hugely successful projects. Some of these dot the national landscape of Muslim life such as South African National Zakaah Fund (SANZAF), Islamic Movement Press (Impress), Islamic Dawah Movement (IDM) and the landmark of education & training in Braemar, KZN known universally as As-Salaam.

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British mps granted Gaza access

 British MPs granted Gaza access
 
BBC 

A cross-party delegation of British MPs has been allowed into Gaza to assess the effects of the recent Israeli military offensive.
 
Members of the Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group were granted entry by the Israeli military.
 
They hope to spend the afternoon being taken around sites damaged during Israeli military action. 
 

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