A must-listen Khitab of Josh Malihabidi

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A must-listen Khitab of Josh Malihabidi recited beautifully by Syed Adnan Haider. Sketch (at the end) by Syed Haider Hasan



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'People to protest hijab ban in Turkey'
Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:18AM
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Turkish people are to protest against hijab ban.People in Turkey are set to stage a demonstration in protest at the hijab ban in the country and related restrictions, a report says.


Members of non-governmental organizations have planned to hold a rally in the country's northwest on April 30 to voice their anger over the ban on hijab, IRIB reported Saturday, citing a local Turkish news agency.

The rally will be reportedly organized by the Mazlum Association in the province of Kocaeli, with the aim of pushing for complete freedom of Islamic hijab in Turkey.

Apart from people and cultural associations in Kocaeli, people from other Turkish cities including Istanbul will also participate in the rally.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for seven years, has failed to lift the ban on hijab.


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'Iraqi women sexually abused at US base'Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:53AM

An Iraqi interpreter talks to soldiers in Baghdad (file photo).A number of female Iraqi interpreters have accused an American contractor of sexual harassment at a base in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.


The women said Friday that Christopher J. Kirchmeier, then 26, who worked as a contractor in charge of security badges and clearances at a base inside Baghdad's Green Zone, sexually harassed them in 2009, The Washington Post reported.

Kirchmeier's superiors at L-3 Communications and in the military knew of his behavior for several months but did nothing about it, according to the interpreters and an army officer who supports their claims of harassment.

Advocates for the women want the US authorities to try Kirchmeier and punish him and his superiors at L-3. They also tried to persuade the US State Department to reverse its decision barring one of the women from the United States.

The interpreters and Kirchmeier's former colleagues have said that he punished those who rejected his advances by seizing their security badges and sabotaging their US visa applications.
His alleged conduct was a violation of L-3's ethics code, which says “physical conduct of a sexual nature is inappropriate in the work place and may be unlawful.”