Courts
ACLU Condemns Charity Closings
The federal government’s crackdown on suspected terrorism financing since the 9/11 attacks has violated the rights of US Muslim charities and deterred Muslims from charitable giving, the ACLU said last Tuesday.
Justice Served
The Lebanese pop sensation, Suzanne Tamim, was nearly decapitated in a July 2008 in a murder drama that has griped the Middle East for the past year.
Bogus Bomb Plot
It is disgusting and outrageous that the FBI is sending provocateurs into mosques…
Will Germany Take Guantanamo Detainees?
Berlin is being asked to take in nine Guantanamo inmates. So far the development is perceived as a first test of trans-Atlantic relations under President Barack Obama. In Germany, there are legitimate questions about the Uighur Chinese it is being asked to take in –but the Interior Ministry also appears to be buying time in an election year.
U.S. Top Court Upholds TV Profanity Crackdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday a U.S. government crackdown on profanity on television, a policy that subjects broadcasters to fines for airing a single expletive blurted out on a live show.
Larry Summers: Dump Waste in Poor Countries
Human beings in LDCs are worth less than human beings in developed countries, according to a leaked, December 12, 1991 internal memo by Mr. Lawrence Summers.
U.S. Treasury Targets Head of China Separatist Group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury on Monday sought to cut off the flow of money to the head of a group considered responsible for killing more than a dozen Chinese police officers ahead of last year’s Beijing Olympics.
ACLU Northern California Appoints First Middle Eastern Head
Abdi Soltani, 35, is the newly appointed executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the largest affiliate of the national organization.
Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown
Ghul is not the only such prisoner who remains missing. At least three dozen others who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing as well. Efforts by human rights organizations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful, and no foreign governments have acknowledged holding them.
Dutch TV Show Tries and Acquits Bin Laden
A Dutch TV jury has found Osama bin Laden not guilty of the September 11 attacks.
War Crimes Trials?
Legal moves may force Obama’s government into starting a new inquiry into abuses at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib
Democracy in Action, in Pakistan
The people of Pakistan have proven something with the recent events of the country…
Seven Years After Gujarat Carnage
NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD: Seven years after the Gujarat-carnage stunned the world, raising questions about Indian secularism, political culture, security and also objectivity of the media to test. It has ironically taken seven years for the Indian system to spell some hope for survivors getting justice and some compensation.
Veils and Justice
Analysis of whether a Canadian court was justified in forcing a niqab-wearing woman to remove her niqab in order to testify against an accused.
UK Muslim Prison Gangs on the Rise
Prison staff in top security jails in Britain are confronting a growing gang culture with groups of Muslim inmates seeking to assert their authority on the wings.
Uncertainty Shrouds 17 Unusual Detainees
The question of what to do with 17 Uighur men held at Guantanamo is one of the challenges awaiting an Obama administration seeking to close the prison camps.
U.S. Airways Pilot Refuses to Fly Plane With Sikhs Onboard
In a disturbing incident reminiscent of widespread discrimination in 2001, three eminent Sikh classical religious musicians, Gulbag Singh, Davinder Singh, and Iqbal Singh were kicked off a U.S. Airways flight, and were told that the U.S. Airways pilot for the plane was refusing to fly with them on board.
Where is the Outrage?
Why is it that women have to bear the brunt of the wrath of a few holier-than-thou people?
What if Lashkar-e-Taiba Is a Scapegoat?
Why then is New Delhi and Washington insisting that Islamic militants in Pakistan are primarily responsible for the attack while downplaying Dawood’s larger role?
