Composing a dhivehi translation of the Quran was one of the earnest vows made by Maumoon during the early days of his presidency. Many had been desperately and monotonously waiting for it, when it was finally out in 2008, after about 30 years to the promise. The reason for it to happen in 2008 was obvious, though Maumoon tried to justify it otherwise by saying that it was a critical scholarly job, which required extreme care and repetitive checking.
So,...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Was it a story of a fornicator that Hilath Rasheed wrote on his blog? Was it a story of a fornicator that Aazima Shukoor talked about on 13th September 2009, during her party’s gathering? Was it a story of a fornicator that caught the major headlines of the local news papers months ago? I thought it was a story of a concubine that circulated at lightning speed across the country, carrying ‘astonishment’ and ‘joy’ with it as it’s related to Islam....
Friday, December 25, 2009
Courtesy: The American Culture
Have u heard about Terri Schiavo, the American who spent 15 years in a vegetative state, whose case was heard in Florida courts for more than 20 times before she was ‘allowed’ to die on euthanasia or mercy-killing on 31st March 2005. How about the Italian woman, Eliuna Englaro, whose 17 years of stay in a coma brought a constitutional battle...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
According to the related government records, the numbers of expatriate workers in Maldives are increasing day by day. Despite the business benefits derived from the foreign workers we are left in a kind of dilemma due to the number of rising social problems created by them which include different sorts of crimes and transmission of communicable diseases such as AIDS. Government just toddles over the matter having difficulties of putting an effective...
Monday, December 21, 2009
How many of you have watched the series ‘Desperate Housewives’? If you have watched few episodes even, just recall the character of Bree. She always wants to keep things neat and tidy. At whatever the expense or how hard she has to work, she always tries to keep her routine and maintain the order. She becomes fussy even to notice a tiny speck of dust or a smudge. And she expects others to be like that. By doing so she has gone extreme. So, even good...
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