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Q. I know very little about Islam. Could you please let me know whether Islam approves of slavery? Does Islam consider women inferior to men? Why cannot a woman go on pilgrimage without having a man relative? Doesn’t this indicate discrimination? SayemA. We can say for certain that Islam does not approve of slavery. When Islam was revealed, slavery was a very common practice in all human societies. Islamic legislation includes a variety of ways to ensure the reduction and eventual eradication of slavery. But this was to come gradually as Muslim society developed. There was an important reason for...

BEIRUT, March 6, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – A number of leading Lebanese powers, including the Hizbullah resistance movement, reiterated on Sunday, March 6, opposition to any foreign intervention in the country and called for mass marches to thank Syria for its “valuable” services to its tiny neighbor. “We refuse that the presence of Syrian troops in the eastern Bekaa valley be subject to (UN Security Council) resolution 1559,” Hizbullah Secretary General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told a press conference following a meeting of pro-Syria groups, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). The resolution, sponsored by Paris and Washington, presses for the...

WASHINGTON, February 12 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan quit on Friday, February 11, over remarks he made at last month's World Economic Forum in Davos in which he accused US forces of targeting journalists in Iraq. “After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq,” Jordan said in a letter to colleagues posted on the Web site of the all-news American network. The resignation...