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Is Shariah law harsh? – Nouman Ali Khan (Video)
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“Slap her!”: children’s reactions (Video)
What happens when you put a boy in front of a girl and ask him to slap her? Here is how children react to the subject of violence against women.
Documentary: TechKnow – Smoking out the truth (Video)
Are health claims for the new generation of e-cigarettes true, or are they a smokescreen?
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Turkey: the rise of Islamic education angers secularists
Source: voanews.com
By: Reuters
Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defense against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation.
Almost a million students are enrolled in “imam hatip” schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month.
The schools teach boys and girls separately, and give around 13 hours a week of Islamic instruction on top of the regular curriculum, including study of Arabic, the Koran and the life of the Prophet Mohammad.
Lawrence Krisna Parker a.k.a KRS One – Hiphop Beyond Entertainment (Video)
Lawrence Krisna Parker better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is an American rapper and producer from The Bronx, New York City, New York. KRS stands for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone. KRS talks about american history, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, government, hypocrisy, society, low self-esteem, essence and concept of hip-hop.
Yasiin Bey: I’m Leaving (Poetry)
By: Yasiin Bey
Yeah
Yo yo what time the plane leaving?
Alright, see you at the airport
I’m leaving, on the next plane
I don’t know when I’ll be back again
Kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me, like you know I’ll never go
Even though you know I will
I’m a travelling man
Moving through places
Space and time
Got a lot of things I got to do
But God willing I’m coming back to you
My baby-boo
I’m a travelling man
Moving through places
Space and time
Gotta lotta things I got to do
But God willing I’m coming back to you
My baby-boo
I’m leaving
Anousheh Ansari: the first Muslim woman in space
Source: Wikipedia
Anousheh Ansari (انوشه انصاری born September 12, 1966, in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian in space. Ansari was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, co-written with Homer Hickam, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
On September 18, 2006, Anousheh Ansari captured headlines around the world as the first female private space explorer. Anousheh earned a place in history as the fourth private explorer to visit space and the first astronaut of Iranian descent.
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