Regarding my article published in Al-Waie Magazine, Issues 474, 475, and 476, entitled “Dismissing the Idea that Different Zones of Visibility Determine the Beginning of Lunar Months, and Rejecting the Idea that Each Country Has Its Own Sighting of the Hilal Crescent of the Moon,” I received a comment indicating that some of its content was understood as advocating the use of astronomical calculations to reject witness

These days, news headlines are dominated by numerous articles concerning Rare Earth Elements (REEs), highlighting the intense competition to possess and control them, or rather, a war called the Rare Earth War. But what exactly are REEs? Why this race, and what lies behind it?

It can be said that negotiations achieve for the cunning state that which it could not achieve on the battlefield. So, how should the Islamic Ummah view American attempts to negotiate with Iran, whilst the Muslims of Iran have repeatedly said that the Americans are making excessive demands, flip flopping on stances, deceiving and outright lying?

The US, drunk on the hubris of being the sole superpower, attacked and occupied Afghanistan in 2001; and invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003. The Clinton administration, upon leaving office on 20 January 2001, bequeathed its successor a budget surplus and a manageable national debt of 5.6 trillion dollars...