Surrey victim of alleged police attack claims he was kicked, robbed and racially abused By Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver SunJanuary 23, 2009 7:26 PMComments (3) ...
Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show Last Updated: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 5:31 AM ET Comments109...
Israeli court upholds guerrilla's right to claim compensation for torture 11:44:49 EST Dec 20, 2005 JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a Lebanese guerrilla leader's right to demand compensation for torture he says he underwent in an Israeli prison. Israel abducted Mustafa Dirani in 1994, hoping to use him as a bargaining chip for information on Ron Arad, an Israeli airman whose jet was downed over Lebanon in 1986. Israel claims Dirani's Amal ...
Sons of beaches: a land girt by bigots * * Email * Print * Normal font * Large font By Tony Parkinson December 13, 2005 Page 1 of 2 AdvertisementAdvertisement BEFORE we get into the blame game over what went so awfully wrong at Cronulla, it is important to recognise how much Australians stand to lose collectively. In the iconography of this country, it is the beach cul...
Iraqi group urges prison abuse inquiry by Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:19 AM GMT Some detainees are said to have been abused Iraq's government faces calls for an international inquiry into abuse at a secret prison in Baghdad where inmates were reportedly tortured, beaten and starved. The call by the Sunni-based Iraqi Islamic Party on Wednesday comes after revelations that about 170 detainees, mostly Sunni, were illegally held at a centr...
Starved, tortured prisoners found in Iraqi cell Last Updated Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:54:58 EST CBC News Iraq is investigating the discovery of more than 170 prisoners in a government bunker in Baghdad where many were found starved, beaten and tortured. * INDEPTH: Iraq Iraqi officials made the announcement Tuesday, two days after U.S. troops surrounded the Interior Ministry compound where the detainees were being held in an underground ce...
Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman by Asim Khan & Mahfoud El Gartit Wednesday 26 October 2005 9:06 AM GMT Sami al-Hajj says he has suffered physical and sexual abuse Sami Muhy al-Din al-Hajj, a Sudanese national, was arrested by the US military while working for Aljazeera during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and detained in Guantanamo for four years without trial. Aljazeera.net spoke to al-Hajj's lawyer, Clive Stafford-Sm...
Israeli army seals off Gaza strip Last Updated Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:53:25 EDT CBC News Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have stormed a hotel in the Gaza Strip in order to remove 150 Jewish extremists, who had barricaded themselves inside for several weeks. The ultra-nationalists had vowed to make the derelict Palm Beach Hotel their base of operations to protest Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza. An opponent of Israel's planned pullout from the G...
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/03/quran050603.html?print U.S. admits abuses to Qur'an in Guantanamo Last Updated Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:59:17 EDT CBC News The U.S. Pentagon confirmed Friday a list of abuses involving the Qur'an, Islam's holy book, by American personnel at Guantanamo Bay, but said the incidents were relatively minor. * INDEPTH: Afghanistan A story published in Newsweek last ...
There is no doubt this is based on separatist activity. I have found the claims of the Uighur Protesters contradicted in so many ways. A few interesting facts: 1. Xinjiang has 13 Ethnic Minorities, most of which are Muslims, yet only Uighur's are protesting and they are the majority in Xinjiang http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/139389.htm 2. Uighur's are exempt from China's one child policy 3. The two Uighur's killed in the Shaoguan Toy Fac...
My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_velk/20050805.html I agree that countries should not allow hate-mongering and other illegal activities from any people but to point the finger at every immigrant and belittle Islam while ignoring other forms of terrorism and the true causes is irresponsible and anti-Islamic in nature. Throughout the world, whether it be the news or on-line forums, people are quick to ...
Muslim men! By Tara Kasim, London I came to Vancouver to attend my cousins wedding. She’s married into an Indian Muslim family, we are a mixed bunch of people. During the wedding, we noticed some changes in my the in law’s attitude. They were so nice and welcoming, but during the Nikkah ceremony and reception, we all felt the brush off. A couple of months later, my cousin called me in England, she was calling from her friends house in Surrey. She was crying madly, so much t...
For the Battered Woman in Islam: By Areeb Yasir You may already know this but choose to ignore it, but there are countless woman in the Muslim community who are being abused (physically and mentally) by their husbands each day. One in particular I know of, and even with her family’s support, she stays with her husband; each night slipping closer to depression. A woman has the right to divorce. It is an ugly thing to say, but in many horrible situations where the hus...
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