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Continue reading →: People, Leaders and Development: a False Perspective!
Someone who has no sense of people and prosperity; can he be a leader – let alone a good leader! After all, common sense is what gives one, a sense of people; and prosperity is a function of humanity. Those who claim positions of leadership amongst us, don’t seem to…
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Continue reading →: ".. stop reciting … what is clearly not true": Minivan News
“To find a peaceful solution to the problem, what is required first is intellectual honesty. We must stop reciting and repeating what is clearly not true. A good starting point would be to admit that our people did not convert peacefully but were murdered and terrorized into submission,” Minivan News…
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Continue reading →: Afraasheem: what a fantastic story
Started formal education at SixteenFinished Mauhadh and went on to IIU, MalaysiaReturns to the country thirteen years later with a PhD What a fantastic story Humble all the wayWish to continue to be an ImamSpend part of his day in preachingAnd to spend time gaining knowledge What a fantastic story…
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Continue reading →: Beybey, rufiyaa eh libidhaane tha?
I was on my way to board the Villingili – Male’ ferry to work, this morning, when in front of Khaandhaan Fihaara, a young boy – about twelve years old; walked up to me and asked, “Beybey, rufiyaa eh libidhaane tha?”. I have this habit of walking with my head…
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Continue reading →: Whose religion is Islam? u
I work in a private company. We have standard operating procedures which tell us how to do what we do in executing our repsonsibilities. If in doubt, we always ask someone who is in a position of the management hierarchy. And when in serious doubt the managers would need to…
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Continue reading →: Educate, educate, educate to wipe out extremism!
This afternoon I was walking past the Reefside Electronics shop near Jumhooree Maidhaan. A young man walked past me with two Chinese tourists. As they turned the corner I heard the young man say, “this is my sister” in English, in response to a group of other colleagues of his.…
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Continue reading →: What do you do when you feel this world is hopeless?
This evening I had a call from a young man I have known, who has been undergoing a very difficult life at it. He has been forced to live with his parents who cannot understand how he is different from “a normal person”, with values and norms that they feel…
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Continue reading →: Who should be responsible for our personal safety?
“A search has begun for man lost at sea while waiting on a dinghy after transporting some tourists to Kudavillingilli near Kaafu atoll Thulhusdhoo for surfing,” Haveeru reported yesterday. This is not the first instance of men falling into the sea from sea borne transport. However, we seem to have…
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Continue reading →: Greetings and Best Wishes
My heartfelt greetings and best wishes to all the visitors to “Smile and Let Smile”. Some of the comments to the blog indicate that some readers have been offended by the content posted on this blog. I would like to apologize for those who have been upset. I have decided…
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Continue reading →: WHICH WAY IS YOUR SERVICE FLOWING? by Ron Kaufman
We all serve others.We give internal service to colleagues and external service to customers. With service partners we work together. You might serve a manager. Servant leaders serve their teams. Tennis begins with service. Cars are regularly serviced. And from time to time, computers need servicing, too. There is community…
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Continue reading →: Maldives Terrorism: Is it our Faith or the Oppression and Poverty!
My comment to M’s post “Terrorists without Borders“: Radical are produced by oppression, not a particular religion. Look at LTTE, IRA, ETA & Basque separatists and others. Maldivians have been an oppressed people, the majority of whom live in absolute poverty. Oppression, coupled with poverty and functional illiteracy breed terrorists.…
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Continue reading →: Maldives Terrorism: A professional perspective!
“The ability of the government to address the growing problem of fundamentalism and its potential to become violent will determine the security future of the Maldives.” So warns a report on the September 29 explosion in Male’, written by one of the Government’s own security advisors and obtained by Minivan…
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Continue reading →: Himandhoo: The Face of "Terrorism" | Yet isn't it all around us?
The media has given us a glimpse of the special operation undertaken by the Maldives Police Service and the Maldives National Defense Forces, during the course of today and this evening. The media personnel were evacuated from Himandhoo before sunset and in addition to the news in the air, there…
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Continue reading →: Himandhoo: One Year from the first Demolition!
The media is reporting that the police reinforcements on Himandhoo in their seige of the breakaway mosque has been further strengthened with men from the Maldives National Defense Forces or the Army. I remember that the last time, we had Maldivian converts to Christianity the President met them to impress…
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Continue reading →: Blast from the Past: Prison in Paradise!
I live in the Maldives …the Sunny Side of life! Until the recent events of September 2003 when the democratic forces and the reformists gained popular support in the country against the alleged dictatorship elected to office with an overwhelming majority of the people, many stories have passed through the…
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Continue reading →: Two arrested in Maduvvari for sexual assault on child
Police have arrested two people in Raa atoll Maduvvaree on charges of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old child, Ungoofaaru Police Station has said. A Police Officer from the Raa atoll Ungoofaaru Police Station said on Wednesday that they were currently investigating the case and details could not be given about the…
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Continue reading →: NO TO TERRORISM! DON'T TOUCH OUR MALDIVES!
“We don’t want terrorists and terrorism in our Maldives!Join the cyber-protest by Maldivian bloggers.”
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Continue reading →: The Alleged Marriage of an Eleven Year Old in Himandhoo
Jazeera Daily has reported: The father of an eleven year old girl has been summoned to the Police Post of Himandhoo, to question about the alleged marriage of the girl. The father had refused to take the girl in for questioning as she is a minor, according to her mother.…
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Continue reading →: Maldives: A Glorious Past without a Future
My comment to the post Maldives: “Gone in 60 Seconds” by mnasheed.com: Events and decisions “not so visual” have impacted on the recipe of the Maldivian tourism industry at the core. Sadly, our simple ways and simple minds habe been alerted only by “an explosion of sorts”. That should never…
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