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In plain words, halal is anything that is created under the Islamic law called sharia. There are 5 types of ahkam (which means activity) that confined the action of Moslems, halal literally means it is in the “allowed” category, whereas terms like haram means it is forbidden under Islam.

"Never mind what they say, watch what they do." It's an old adage, and like most old adages helps us better understand the world around us. The relationship between the United States and Russia is one of the most important on the international stage. Several times in his election campaign Donald ...

Police Commissioner Mike Bush has called for specific "hate crime" legislation to be considered for introduction into New Zealand.

Ten years ago this week, on the 10th of February 2007, President Vladimir Putin of Russia made a cut through speech at the 43rd Munich Security Conference. Exposing the hypocrisy of US/NATO/EU controlled international security policy, the speech was a concise, intelligent and insightful and pointed ...

New Zealand politics aficionados went abuzz this week over the Labour Party’s announcement that former broadcaster Willie Jackson will be a candidate in the 2017 general elections under their banner. Jackson is a perennial figure in Maori affairs, his stint as a talkback radio host was used to ...

Liberal outrage is like a flavour of the month: it’s always something else every once in a while. The most recent flavour is with regards to President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from a host of different countries. The list includes Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, ...

It's not often that I'll go out of my way to sing the praises of a multinational corporation, however I've just seen an advertisement from ANZ which has an important theme. Whether it was intentional or not I don't know. The one minute long ad shows a young European boy bouncing on a trampoline ...

There has been an attack in Canada on a Quebec City mosque, leaving six dead and nineteen wounded, five in critical condition. Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard have called shooting an act of terrorism.

Our media is known to be a joke, so much so that they're actually less trusted than politicians. Let's take a look at how they did covering the first week of the Trump presidency.