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Illinois to get about $1B in national mortgage settlement

The $25 billion mortgage settlement with big banks means about 1$ billion in relief to Illinois homeowners.

People who owe more than their homes are worth and have fallen behind on payments may qualify for loan reductions, while other people who are underwater but current on their loans may be able to refinance. And people who lost their homes to foreclosure may be able to get cash payments.

Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan helped negotiate the deal and spoke at a Washington, D.C., press conference announcing it.

"Today’s settlement should serve as a warning to financial institutions - there are consequences for engaging in practices that jeopardize the stability of our communities and our economy," Madigan said.

But whether this deal means a major boost for the housing market is still a question.

Amir Sufi is a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Source: WBEZ

ALGERIAN SUFISM IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD - majlis-al-uns

This chapter explores some of the main themes of Sufism in the colonial period, both from the perspective of the colonized and the colonizers. The most important point to be emphasized at the outset is that, as the Sufis were characterized by superstition marabouts `` - both Orientalists and Modernisation of Muslims - was largely due to the influence of Sufism, which a pity basic and spirituality have been supported throughout the colonial period.Also, if it is to remember that colonialism was essentially an assault on the traditional Islamic way of life and how the accompanying thought, then you can design a strategy of "resistance", the most effective and fundamental to that pursued by Sufis ....

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Blast from the past

Hindustan Times - Jul 08, 2011

Just when everyone thought popular and independent music was taking a back seat, two celebrated artistes and a veteran band are returning to the scene in a big way. Indus Creed, India's oldest indie band, Sufi singer Rabbi Shergill and soul musician

He's a whirling dervish

Waterloo Record - Jul 08, 2011

“The first time, I started with Sufi music for about half and hour or so,” he said. “I didn't get dizzy, no headaches. It was like I was reborn.” Whirling dervishes are Sufis and part of the Mevlevi Order, followers of Rumi, the 13th century Persian

Make way for freestyle percussions

The Express Tribune - Jul 06, 2011

Despite this, the relative history of percussions can be attributed to the dhol, which plays a unique role in Pakistan's folk and Sufi music culture. “It's a revolution, I believe music should also evolve,” said Char-payee's Raja Nabeel Banwa.

Isabelle Eberhardt: Dressed Like a Man, Drowned in a Desert Flood in Algeria ...

Huffington Post - Jul 08, 2011

Born Russian, she moved to North Africa, converted to Islam, joined a Sufi sect. She drank, smoked hashish, slept with any man she pleased. An assassin failed to kill her, but succeeded in nearly hacking her arm off. In 1904, when she was just 27,

Locked up again: The Somali crook we can't send home because of his Human Rights

Daily Mail - Jul 08, 2011

Abdisamad Sufi was jailed for two attempted burglaries only days after Strasbourg judges granted his release from an immigration detention centre. MPs said the case showed how human rights laws had made a mockery of British justice.