Transparency International has released its annual Corruption Perceptions index for 2014. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to [...]
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In a YouGov poll conducted for The Folio Society, 2044 British adults were asked to name the books of most signifance for the modern World. The Holy Bible took the top spot with 37% of the vote followed by Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species..’ with 35%. The Holy Quran placed in 8th spot with 9% of the total vote. [...]
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…But such a transformation has come at a cost. The Washington-based Gulf Institute estimates that 95 per cent of Mecca’s millennium-old buildings have been demolished in the past two decades alone. Dozens of key historical sites dating back to the birth of Islam have already been lost and there is a scramble among archaeologists [...]
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In this extract Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali says that the most honourable or esteemed task is the propagation of Islam and although we pay lip service to this, in fact, we hold other things such as business or jobs and positions to be things which bring us honour. If we truly thought that propagation was the most honourable task we would seek [...]
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