The Stealth Crusade By Barry Yeoman | Wed May 1, 2002 12:00 AM PST At 8 o'clock on a warm Monday morning in January, 20 students file into Rick Love's classroom at Columbia International University in South Carolina. Eyes glassy from writing papers all weekend, they clutch Styrofoam cups of Folgers a...
BEIJING,July 10-- A family member of a Uygur man who died in a toy factory brawl in Shaoguan, south China's Guangdong Province, condemned the Xinjiang riot and rejected some reports that the two incidents have any link. The brawl between Han and Uygur workers which killed two Uyghurs is said to have sparked Sunday's riot that left 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured thousands of kilometers away i...
Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
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Monday, Jul. 01, 2002 The End: How It Got That Way By DAVID VAN BIEMA Calamity is the mother of end-of-the-world prophecy. This is true as millions of Americans, many rattled into an End Times frame of mind by Sept. 11, line up to buy the latest installment in the Left Behind series, The Remnant. It was true when the first prophecies of the End appeared in the Hebrew Bible in response to a great national catastrophe in 586...
(CNN) -- The Indian city of Mumbai exploded into chaos early Thursday morning as gunmen launched a series of attacks across the country's commercial capital, killing scores of people and taking hostages in two luxury hotels frequented by Westerners. ...
Muslim Group Opposes Little Big Planet's Censorship Not all of Islam supports Sony's recall over controversial in-game music. By Jonathan Fincher, 10/21/2008 You've probably heard about the recent ...
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29 dead, dozens wounded as blasts hit western India Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 3:06 PM ET Comments16...
Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show Last Updated: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 5:31 AM ET Comments109...
Race the top motivator for hate crimes in Canada: report Calgary, Kingston, Ottawa have highest rate of reported incidents Last Updated: Monday, June 9, 2008 | 2:10 PM ET Comments175...
B.C. tribunal hears complaint against Maclean's article Last Updated: Monday, June 2, 2008 | 10:31 PM ET Comments2...
'Chilly climate' greets Muslim university students: report Last Updated: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 | 4:25 PM ET CBC News Canadian universities are failing to accommodate the specific needs of Muslim students and are not doing enough to fix the "chilly climate" of discrimination they face, a report releasedWednesday by&n...
Australian TV shows what it says are new photos of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse 11:07:03 EST Feb 15, 2006 MERAIAH FOLEY SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Australian television network broadcast photographs and video clips Wednesday that it said were previously unpublished images of the abuse of Iraqis held in U.S. military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. ...
Israeli sonic booms terrorising Gaza by Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Monday 26 December 2005 3:30 AM GMT Israeli F-16 jets break the sound barrier above populated areas Palestinians liken it to a bomb dropped directly over their heads leaving them shaking and shocked; human rights groups call it collective punishment; and the Israeli military says it is a necessary, and relatively benign, military response. The sonic boom is the Israeli arm...
Memo: Bush wanted Aljazeera bombed by Tuesday 22 November 2005 5:56 AM GMT The memo has been described as 'hugely damaging to Bush' US President George Bush planned to bomb Arab broadcaster Aljazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror has reported, citing a Downing Street memo marked top secret. The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that Blair talked Bush out of launching a...
Emotional Democrat becomes latest symbol of gathering storm over Iraq 18:51:37 EST Nov 17, 2005 BETH GORHAM WASHINGTON (CP) - The pressure on President George W. Bush over Iraq just keeps mounting as his popularity dips. Some Democrats are talking more about an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. Republicans want Iraqis to assume more control for security, though they're not seeking a definitive timetable for pulling out of a war that's increasingly unpopular with A...
Canada joins world in expressing dismay over Iranian leader's attack on Israel 11:25 AM EDT Oct 27 JILL LAWLESS LONDON (CP) - Governments around the world, including Canada, expressed shock and scorn Thursday at the Iranian president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map," and several summoned Tehran's envoys in their capitals for a reprimand. However, Israeli calls for Iran to be suspended from the United Nations over the remarks by President Mah...
Spain issues warrant for U.S. soldiers Last Updated Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:53:45 EDT CBC News A judge in Spain has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers in the shelling of a hotel in Baghdad that killed a Spanish journalist. High court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the warrant on Wednesday for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt.-Col. Philip de Camp, then of the U.S. 3rd Infantry. Jose Couso, of the Spanis...
Jewish settler kills 4 Arab Israelis on bus Last Updated Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:39:37 EDT CBC News A man wearing an Israeli army uniform opened fire inside a bus in an Israeli Arab town and killed four people, in an attack being linked to the country's planned withdrawal from Gaza. 19-year-old Israeli gunman who opened fire killing passengers on a bus in the Israeli town of Shfaram. (AP photo) * INDEPTH: Israeli settlements At le...
Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip 10:13 AM EDT Aug 04 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel announced plans Thursday to expand a settlement near Jerusalem, its latest effort to consolidate control over parts of the West Bank even as it prepares to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The plan to build 72 housing units in the Beitar Illit settlement are liable to put Israel on a collision course with the U.S. government, which oppo...
Man shot by U.K. police not connected to bomb attacks Last Updated Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:56:52 EDT CBC News British police say a man they killed on a London subway train wasn't connected to Thursday's attempted bombings in the city's transit system. * INDEPTH: London bombing investigation A surveillance camera image of a suspect taken on Hackney Road bus. (AP Photo/ Metropolitan Police) The man, identified by police as 2...
Many killed in Iraq violence by Saturday 16 April 2005 12:26 PM GMT An explosion in a Baquba restaurant killed seven At least 15 people - seven of them in one blast - have been killed in attacks across Iraq. In Baquba, an explosion in a restaurant on Saturday killed seven people, including three police officers, an Iraqi army officer said. "Seven people, including three policemen, were killed and at least five other peop...
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/24/148212 Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3 Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD Ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey talks about his time in Iraq where he admitted the U.S. treatment of Iraqi civilians is fueling the Iraqi resistance. ...
Thousands mark 10th anniversary of slaughter of almost 8,000 Srebrenica Muslims 12:09 PM EDT Jul 11 SAMIR KRILIC SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - World leaders joined some 50,000 survivors and guests Monday in marking Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War - the death of nearly 8,000 Srebrenica Muslims 10 years ago. But Fatima Budic was alone with her grief. Budic huddled over the coffin of her 14-year-old son, and the s...
Palestinians under attack from settlers by Friday 25 March 2005 11:21 PM GMT Extremism is said to be growing among Israeli settlers Israeli settlers in the West Bank are turning more aggressive, resulting in a recent spate of violent attacks on Palestinians. The online edition of the Haaretz daily on Friday quoted sources within the Israeli occupation forces as cautioning that attacks on Palestinians could spiral further unless "extremis...
Israel accused of covering up murders by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Monday 27 June 2005 6:18 PM GMT Rights groups say Israeli soldiers are trigger-happy The Israeli human rights organisation, B'tselem, has accused the Israeli occupation army of whitewashing the murders of hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians. The organisation, which monitors Israeli human rights violations in the occupied territories, described Monday's convic...
Watchdog: Israeli military probe of Palestinian civilian casualties a sham 02:26 PM EDT Jun 22 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military's investigation of Palestinian civilian casualties is a farce and encourages soldiers to think they can act with impunity, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday. The military said there was no basis to the charge. "All allegations claiming that innocents or terrorists h...
Israel criticised over civilian casualties by Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:16 PM GMT HRW says Israel probed less than 5% of fatal incidents The Israeli military investigation of Palestinian civilian casualties is a farce, according to the Human Rights Watch. In its 126-page report, the rights body says since the Palestinian uprising began in 2000, Israeli forces have killed or seriously injured thousands of Palestinians who weren't involved...
Rumsfeld blames Aljazeera over Iraq by Lawrence Smallman Saturday 04 June 2005 6:48 AM GMT The US defence secretary said television could promote terrorism US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has alleged that Aljazeera is encouraging armed Islamist groups by broadcasting beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq. Speaking at a security conference in Singapore on Saturday, Rumsfeld said that "if anyone lived in the Middle East and watched ...
US rejects calls to shut Guantanamo by Tuesday 07 June 2005 7:45 AM GMT The Pentagon opened the prison in January 2002 The Pentagon has rejected a call to close its Guantanamo prison and declined to express regret over five cases of US jailors "mishandling" the Quran there. Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, said on Monday that the United States was not considering shutting the Guantanamo jail as suggested by a senior Senate De...
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 ...
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050603/w060340.html Bosnian mother turns on TV to see son executed in Srebrenica massacre video 02:36 PM EDT Jun 03 SAMIR KRILIC SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Shaken and in tears, Nura Alispahic said Friday she turned on the TV to watch the news - then saw a gruesome video of the shooting deaths of her teenage son Azmir and five other Muslims from Srebrenica by Serb forces in July 1995. "I saw with my own...
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Terrorism was rampant when the first official Muslims appeared when the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)began his prophethood and received divine relevation. Even though our Prophet is gone, we still have the most important gift from him, the Holy Qur'an which remains intact and universal to all Muslims since it was revealed. John Esposito sees Muhammad as a reformer who condemned practices of the pagan Arabs such as female infanticide, exploitat...
I think this is very important when reading the Qur'an, it gives you an idea of the context and situation it was written other. Especially because anti-Islamists try and take a few select verses from the Qur'an out of context in order to convince others that Islam is violent and intolerant to non-Muslims. We must remember the conditions each verse was made under, and also take into consideration other supporting verses when reading and interpreting the Qur'an. If one verse...
An example of the quotes from the Qur'an an anti-Islamist would use:009:029 "Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the Last Day, who do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, or acknowledge the Religion of Truth (Islam), (even if they are) People of the Book (Christians and Jews), until they pay the Jizyah tribute tax in submission, feeling themselves subdued and brought low."...
It’s easy to gossip. Occasionally it’s harmless and unintentional, other times it’s aimed. A pattern of gossiping for the deliberate reason to humiliate person(s) has become habit in the Muslim community. So much; that it’s developed into reflex. This effortless chat is strictly forbidden because it arises suspicion of perhaps innocent individual(s) or distort truths with intentional (and unintentional) add on’s. As stated in (24:19 Yusif Ali) Those who love (to see) scandal published broa...
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