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Green activists may have a somewhat surprising ally in their midst: Islam.

According to “Globalized Eco-Islam: A Survey”, recently published by the Leiden University in the Netherlands, a number of Qu’ranic passages talk about the environment, and people find it easier to accept discourse associated with heritage.

While it’s been an uphill task, there have been some successes, and even the UK’s Prince Charles has acknowledged its power.

Passages in the Qu’ran and the Hadith specifically condemn pollution and preach environmental conservation.

“The Earth is green and beautiful, and Allah has appointed you [humans] his stewards over it… Whoever plants a tree and diligently looks after it until it matures and bears fruit is rewarded….” (Hadith)

“Devote thyself single-mindedly to the Faith, and thus follow the nature designed by Allah, the nature according to which He has fashioned mankind. There is no altering the creation of Allah.” (Qu’ran)

(Source: the BBC, Fanar Qatar Islamic Cultural Center)

An early 20th century approach to Islamic environmentalism was rooted in mysticism.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an Iranian American philosopher, emphasized the sacredness of nature, the inherent balance of the universe, and the significance and responsibilities of mankind in this grand divine scheme.

According to this approach, people should adopt model Islamic virtues, and this spiritual awakening would motivate people to improve society.

(Source: Globalized Eco-Islam: A Survey)

Later, a more scientific approach was developed.

Scholars like Ziauddin Sardar felt the need to develop an ethical or “Islamized” science. The solution was a revival of Islamic scientific principles as a part of the Islamic moral framework of society.

Both approaches consider Western philosophy the root cause of environmental destruction.

(Source: Globalized Eco-Islam: A Survey)

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George Zimmerman followed Trayvon Martin before shooting the “skinny” 17-year-old and any scuffle was over by the time a shot was fired, according to some witnesses.

Two women who heard someone screaming for help before Martin died told Florida investigators Zimmerman followed the teen before killing him.

“And I can tell you there was no fighting going on at the time the gun went off,” one of the women, identified only as W16, told police. “And the fight that happened started way down the sidewalk. Now the kid got shot way down here, you know, 5 doors down.”

Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Martin, was charged last month with second-degree murder. Zimmerman has claimed he acted in self-defense.

The Florida state attorney prosecuting Zimmerman has released a slew of evidence revealing chilling details from eye witness reports, and from a Middle Eastern man who worked with Zimmerman.

The eye witnesses shed light on what might have happened the rainy February evening when Martin died.

“So I’m assuming maybe the kid was already shot once and was crying and trying to get home,” one of the women told investigators. “But I know they were not physically fighting at the time that gun went off when we heard the shot and the kid hit the ground.”

The witness said, “That little kid was so skinny compared to him.”

Meanwhile, a onetime co-worker of Zimmerman said the neighborhood watchman had tormented him repeatedly. Zimmerman mocked his accent and called him an “f-ing moron,” the witness claimed.

“He had a great warm face, but I didn’t see the other face till later on,” the witness said. He added, “I was an easy target for him. “That was more important than anything else.”

However, another witness, a woman identified as W1, spoke out in defense of Zimmerman.

The woman told investigators that police asked her if she thought Zimmerman had done this.

“And I said no I don’t think he would have done this,” she said.

While the woman said she did not know Zimmerman personally, she recognized him from his efforts to reinvigorate the neighborhood watch program.

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Pejman Nozad could have made $50 million today.

In 2005, he had a chance to invest roughly $50,000 in Facebook, he told the Wall Street Journal. Facebook’s then-president, Sean Parker, was keen on nabbing space in 165 University Avenue, a building Nozad and his partners, the Amidi family, owned.

Park sought out Nozad, who’s known as a matchmaker in Silicon Valley—a role he developed as he sold carpets in a well-placed business, the Amidis’ Medallion Rug Gallery in Palo Alto.

Google and PayPal had previously occupied 165 University Avenue, which is now thought to be a lucky one for startups. (PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel was an early investor in Facebook.)

Facebook not only wanted the lucky space, but hoped the the lucky angel investor would take a stake.

The leasing department turned Facebook down, and Nozad said he didn’t fight the decision. Facebook found other office space along University Avenue.

Don’t feel bad for Nozad, though.

He and the Amidis now run Amidzad Partners, which sold startups like Danger Research and Powerset to Microsoft and shopping search engine Milo to eBay. Dropbox is a current investment.

UPDATE: Here’s the conversation we had with Nozad on Twitter about this story:

@owenthomas all good here!

— pejmannozad (@pejmannozad) May 18, 2012 

That’s a relief!

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Since we first published our report about impending mass layoffs at HP, we’ve heard from a bunch of HP employees offering us more details.

They paint a scary picture, particularly about the beleaguered HP Enterprise Services group.

In 2008, HP spent $13.9 billion to buy EDS, folding in HP’s smaller services arm and renaming it HP Enterprise Services (HP ES). This group handles outsourcing contracts for HP.

• Layoffs have been going on for years. HP originally said it would shed 25,000 workers and that it was done with this in October, according to documents filed with the SEC.

• Perhaps as many as 5,000 more people have been laid off since March, said one former employee who was let go in April.

• In March, HP employees began hearing that HP was planning on laying off 30,000 people across all units, with ES hardest-hit.

• Employees have been steadily leaving, too. This could be hurting some of HP’s contracts, like its Navy Marine Corps Intranet/Next Generation Enterprise Network.  The Navy renewed its contract with HP in 2010 for $3.3 billion in a five-year deal, but the Navy would rather end the relationship, Wired reported at the time. “Over the past 10 months, over 70 employees have left the NMCI/NGEN contract. All for higher-paying jobs, better jobs,” said one former employee.

• The HP ES team never felt integrated with the rest of HP. When HP bought EDS, it just about doubled the size of HP. EDS had 139,500 workers and HP had 172,000.

• The cost overruns that Meg Whitman complained about in March were caused by “the HP side,” an ES employee said. HP took over the management of EDS’s IT tools, like its telephone system. They added staff to manage the tools and charged the extra staff back to what used to be EDS. “Is it any wonder that HP ES’s costs rose 10% last fiscal year?“

• A good chunk of the next round of layoffs could be coming from a part of HP ES known as the Business Process Outsourcing unit, sources at HP ES believe. HP has been talking about selling the unit or shutting it down, our sources say. This unit lets big companies hire HP to do tasks such as customer support, human resources, payroll, and accounting.  One employee said that BPO had about 25,000 employees when HP bought EDS and is about half that size now.

• ES had a string of leaders—none of them with a clue, employees complain. “HP ES was never managed properly.  Management never had proper direction from the top down. Almost every 6-8 months, we would get an email about leadership changes,” one employee told us.

  John Visentin was put in charge of ES last year. “He’s been so invisible it’s just ridiculous,” our source told us. “Meg Whitman came out and said HP ES was HP’s biggest problem … that was in March. He made no statement at all … no emails, nothing.”

Last quarter, ES reported $8.6 billion in revenue. At the time, it was HP’s second largest unit. (The PC unit was a little bigger.) HP has since reorganized.

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