looks with grief at the massacre in Quetta and describes how she drew strength and character from childhood diversity in both Yorkshire and the Punjab.

“Not all the dead were fighters,” says Loewenstein. “Some were old men, women and children.”

Stranded beside their decrepit flotilla of wooden boats, on a muddy beach far from home, the Muslim refugees tell story after terrifying story of their exodus from a once-peaceful town on Myanmar's western coast.

2012 has been quite an eventful year for the Palestinian question. The fourth quarter of the year witnessed some landmark events, including the eight-day- Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which killed and injured as many as a thousand Palestinians, mostly innocent civilians.

Pakistan’s Shias are so regularly killed in targeted attacks that counting the numbers who were thus killed in 2012 is an uphill task. But just to give an idea, even before the start of the Muharram month, when anti-Shia violence is usually routinely anticipated and accepted as a given, the numbers killed had crossed 389 — the number of people the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says died in sectarian violence in 2011.

During the recent "Israeli" offensive, Operation Pillar of Defence (14 - 21 November 2012), "Israeli" forces attacked streets, family homes, and civilian buildings in densely populated areas, causing extensive destruction to civilian property in Gaza Strip.

For the eight days of the "Israeli" aggression on Gaza Strip, the Resistance in Lebanon was fully braced for all possibilities. After the aggression ended, the Resistance's leadership applied itself to deeply analyzing the new experience into which the Palestinian factions have ventured in facing the occupation army, in order to derive lessons.

Wahhabi wrecking crews have also torn down historic mosques in Medina, and Wahhabi terrorist acolytes have bombed Sufi and Shia structures in Iraq and South Asia. The Wahhabi fanatics even tried to destroy the Ka'bah, the cubical building inside the Grand Mosque at Mecca; and they still threaten to remove the green dome from the Prophet's Shrine in Medina.

Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is one of the four sacred months of the year in which violence is prohibited.

Fatah, the political backbone of the western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) and party of Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, won a difficult victory in partial local and municipal elections in the West Bank.

Sexual intercourse and the sexual relationship with a legal spouse are governed by nature, and at the same time is a sunnah of the Prophets and the Ahlul Bayt (as). It has even been referred to as the most pleasurable thing in life. A group of companions and Shī‘as of Imām as-Sādiq (as) narrate that the Imām asked us: “What is the most pleasurable thing?” We said: “There are many pleasurable things.” Imām said: “The most pleasurable thing is making love with (your) spouses.”[28]