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...
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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 ...
Iran warns Israel of swift retaliation by Friday 16 December 2005 2:19 PM GMT Najjar says Iran will retaliate if attacked Rhetorical hostilities between Iran and Israel have grown sharper with Iran's defence minister announcing that any Israeli attack would provoke a "swift and destructive" response. "The policy of the Islamic republic of Iran is completely defensive, but if we are attacked, the answer of the armed forces will be swift, ...
Police investigating Sydney race riots find pistol, ammunition in house raids 06:53:14 EST Dec 19, 2005 MIKE CORDER SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Detectives investigating race riots that rocked Sydney last week seized a pistol, ammunition, knives and smoke bombs in a series of raids Monday, police said in a statement. The weapons haul came after police questioned five men arrested Sunday night with a drum of petrol and objects for putting together makeshift...
Life returns to Palestinian village by Motasem A Dalloul in al-Syafa, Gaza Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:32 AM GMT Al-Syafa was under a virtual Israeli lockdown for five years Nearly four months after Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian village once cordoned off between two Jewish settlements is slowly coming back to life. Located in the northern Gaza Strip, the village of al-Syafa had been caught between the Israeli set...
Who'd have thought it - Blinky Bill, the face of race hatred * * Email * Print * Normal font * Large font By John Huxley December 13, 2005 AdvertisementAdvertisement ITS members sing Waltzing Matilda. Its flyers carry pictures of Blinky Bill. And its posters feature the starry cross of the 1854 Eureka uprising. But don't be deceived, say its many critics. The Patriotic Youth ...
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...
Israel accused of skewing elections by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Monday 03 October 2005 1:39 PM GMT The Israeli army is targeting Palestinian civil servants The Israeli army is cracking down on civil servants and community leaders, including elected local government officials, throughout the West Bank, in what some believe to be a bid to force Hamas out of upcoming Palestinian elections. Palestinian sources told Aljazeera.net that ...
Settler-funding a billion dollar question by Friday 12 August 2005 7:05 AM GMT Some believe $60 billion has been pumped into settlements Israel's illegal effort since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war to fill the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jews has grown from the scattered actions of zealous squatters into a network of 142 settlements that house nearly 240,000 people. Now that Israel plans to spend $2 billion to dismantle just 25 of these enc...
Al-Qaida's deputy threatens more attacks in Britain in videotape broadcast 09:54 AM EDT Aug 04 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri threatened more destruction in London, saying in a videotape broadcast Thursday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be to blame. "Blair has brought to you destruction in central London, and he will bring more of that, God willing," al-Zawahri said in the tape, which was broadcast on the Arab all-ne...
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...
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A642CF1D-C52C-45E7-97C5-DE9BC773C194.htm Here is a report by a prisoner: http://www.cageprisoners.com/downloads/USQuranDesecration.pdf...
This is such a confusing subject for both Muslims and non-Muslims but the Holy Qur'an makes it clear that Polygamy is permitted as an exception, not a rule under exceptional circumstances and the Qur'an declares it is not allowed except for the Prophet (PBUH) as it was for all prophets to ensure their lineage continued. As we can see below the Qu'an mentions the marriage of up to 4 orphans in the course of justice (in the Qur'an this was written during a time of war when many men were...
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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