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Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
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Well, in the sidebar of my blog - to the right - you can find resources about Islam & prophet Muhammed (PBUH) under the section titled “InfoPannel”. Kindly note that sometimes - not all the times - this sidebar don’t load correctly in the IE; as IE load it at the end of the page, therefore try Mozilla or Firefox, as the page loads correctly within them.

However, in addition to those listed resources, I’d like to highlight on the following websites/documentaries.

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Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and Blessings be upon you

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Everyday we site in front of our computers to surf the internet for websites according to everybody’s interest. However, did you ever wonder how those websites looks like in the very beginning?

Wayback Machine provides an answer for this curious question. There you’ll find a huge archive for over 55 billion web pages, from 1996 to few months ago. Archives are listed according to the dates under each year, starting from 1996 up to 2005 until this post was written.

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Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
Peace and Blessings be upon you

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This post is somehow different, because it’ll take us in a small journey outside planet Earth, something like a Zoom Out to the whole universe, however it’ll have to Zoom In back so don’t worry you’ll be back safely to Earth.

Okay, the story is very simple: I was visiting Nabeel’s blog - Nabeel’s Cosmos - and his last post was about a video from NASA. I’d commented there, however I’d like to place it here again in a wider perspective.

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Day after day, the situation in Iraq became worse and worse. The BBC had reported today that about 100 people have been killed in the aftermath of bombing the Shia Shrine yesterday. This is insane.

Only evil souls think about this kind of bombing to make riot between the two major sectarians of Iraq. I’m sure that any moderate Sunni will never think to bomb such a place for the Shias. Therefore, It’s very important that the Iraqi people unite their power to overcome this crisis, and don’t let the situation to reach a civil war.

It’s the responsibility now for the leaders and Muslim scholars - both Shiites and Sunnis - to make their effort to stop riot, because none of the Iraqi people will gain from such situation; rather they will be losers if this fury didn’t stop. That’s about the people.

As for the shrine, Look at the picture - to the left - and see how the shrine became after bombing! This shrine returns back to the 9-10th century and was rebuild 3 times later in the 11th, 12th and the 19th centuries respectively. The golden Dome was one of it’s characteristic, which gave it more beauty. It’s listed under Iraqi World Heritage list.

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Assalam Alikom wa rahmat ALLAH
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We all aware now about the Avian influenza (a.k.a. Bird Flu) which began to spread worldwide during the last period. I just want to highlight on the important facts regarding this flu, because Knowledge is Power as you know.

First of all, according to the WHO, scientifically this influenza known is as Influenza A viruses, which have 16 H subtypes + 9 N subtypes. Those viruses mainly affect birds, and rarely animals or humans, that’s why it’s avian or bird flu.

The most contagious strains - which are fatal in birds - are H5 and H7. Such viruses cause birds to stop productivity - i.e. eggs - and then they die quickly. Furthermore, those infected birds usually transfer the virus to other birds via faeces, saliva ..etc. What we are facing today type H5N1, which was discovered for the first time in Hong Kong in the year 1997.

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