https://globalnews.ca/news/3816761/rachel-notley-says-quebecs-face-veil-ban-smacks-of-islamophobia/ Rachel Notley says Quebec’s face-veil ban ‘smacks of Islamophobia’ "It is a cruel joke to claim you are liberating people from oppression by dictating in law what they can and cannot wear,'' he said in the speech. - Justin Trudeau...
If the dating turns out to be correct this is the copy that the Church should adopt although it is highly unlikely it would be accepted. This copy should be the accepted one since it would be the only known copy of the Bible which was in the actual language of Jesus (aramaic) but since it has so many contradictions it may undermine the Church's legitimacy so we expect that no matter what this Bible will be discredited. A secret Bible in which Jesus is believed ...
This is the debate that I have been involved in numerous times over the years. I have asked many Imams about this issue and the response is normally the same. The last response I had was that "you get 10 times the reward" for reading it in Arabic without any supporting evidence from Qur'an or authentic hadith. Some people will not even accept any religious debate about Islam when it is done in English, yet the same people will lear...
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Swedish foreign minister resigns over Prophet cartoon scandal Last Updated Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:47:29 EST CBC News Sweden's foreign minister, accused of lying about her role in shutting down a website that wanted to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, stepped down on Tuesday. INDEPTH: ...
Canada concerned over Afghan facing death for being a Christian Last Updated Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:37:37 EST CBC News Canada has joined the list of countries closely watching a court case in Afghanistan, where under Islamic law a man could be sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. INDEPTH: ...
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Israel will establish borders in 4 years: Olmert Last Updated Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:35:40 EST CBC News Israel will set its own permanent borders within the next four years in the absence of a negotiated settlement, Israel's acting prime minister said in a published interview Friday. INDEPTH: ...
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Iran says UN agency's report shows Tehran not trying to make nuclear weapons 05:29:43 EST Feb 28, 2006 TOKYO (AP) - A report by the UN nuclear watchdog agency shows there is no proof Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing nuclear weapons, Iran's foreign minister said Tuesday in Japan. "They could not find evidence which shows t...
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Comments on Klein's wife spark new controversy for Western Standard Last Updated Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:57:00 EST CBC News A Calgary-based political magazine, already under fire for publishing cartoons offensive to Muslims, is now being accused of racism after publishing derogatory comments about the wife of the Alberta premier. The comments were part of ...
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. ...
Western Canadian magazine publishes Muhammad cartoons Last Updated Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:28 EST CBC News The publisher of an Alberta-based political magazine is defending his decision to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, saying Western media have been cowed into fear. ...
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Harper 'regrets' publication of Muslim caricatures; group warns of danger to troops Last Updated Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:26:31 EST CBC News On the same day a Canadian Islamic group warned that reprinting cartoons of Muhammad could endanger Canadian troops overseas, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he regretted their publication. "Free speech is a ri...
Annan: Media should respect religion by Thursday 02 February 2006 8:50 PM GMT The UN chief voiced concern over the Muhammad cartoon row Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, has said that freedom of the press should not be an excuse for insulting religions and expressed concern about the controversy over a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Stephane Dujarric, the UN's chief spokesman, said on Thursday: "H...
Israeli troops, Jewish settlers clash JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press AMONA, West Bank - Thousands of club-wielding troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with stone-throwing Jewish protesters Wednesday as they began dismantling homes in this illegal West Bank settlement, officials said. Dozens of people were wounded. It was the first forced evacuation of Jewish settlers since last summer's pullout from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, a...
Christian gang arrested in Guatemala Last Updated Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:23:47 EST CBC News Police in Guatemala have arrested a gang of religious fanatics on suspicion of possessing illegal weapons and extortion, and the possible murder of five people in a small town. San Lucas Toliman, about 70 kilometres west of Guatemala City, was the target of the seven men, who called themselves the Social Cleansing of the Town, police allege. They are...
Fearful Christmas in Baghdad By Zaineb Salah Ahmed in Baghdad Sunday 25 December 2005, 9:23 Makka Time, 6:23 GMT Iraqi Christians light a bonfire on Christmas Eve Related: Church blasts fail to dent Iraqi unity Islamist groups deny role in church blasts Iraqi Muslims, Christians stress unity Several killed in attack on Iraqi churches Tools: Email Article Print Article Send...
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...
Top US general: Iraqis want us out by Sunday 25 December 2005 11:32 PM GMT Peter Pace (R): Troop levels re-assessed on a monthly basis The United States' top military commander has admitted that Iraqis want US and other foreign troops to leave the country "as soon as possible". General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also said on Sunday that US troop levels in Iraq were being re-assessed on a monthly basis. ...
Two suicide attacks in Mideast leave 8 dead Last Updated Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:47:33 EST CBC News Separate suicide bomb attacks killed four people each in the West Bank and Baghdad and wounded many more. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a West Bank checkpoint after being prevented from reaching Israel, according to Israeli security authorities. An Israeli guard and four Palestinians were killed. Several more were wounded. ...
New threats of violence in Indonesia Last Updated Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:42:14 EST CBC News Thousands of security forces are on guard across Indonesia amid threats that al-Qaeda-linked militants were planning attacks over the holiday period. * INDEPTH: Indonesia Maj. Gen. Firman Gani, Jakarta's police chief, said Jemaah Islamiyah militants might try to retaliate for the death of bomb-making expert Azahari Husin, who was gunned down in a...
US confirms monitoring Muslim homes by Saturday 24 December 2005 7:39 AM GMT Mosques and Muslim homes and workplaces were monitored US officials have confirmed that the FBI and Energy Department have conducted thousands of searches for radioactive materials at private sites nationwide in the past three years, The New York Times reports. The existence of such a search programme was disclosed on Thursday by US News and World Report's websi...
European arrest warrants issued for 22 purported CIA agents in alleged kidnap 10:35:26 EST Dec 23, 2005 ROME (AP) - A judge has issued European arrest warrants for 22 purported CIA operatives in connection with the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in 2003, a prosecutor said Friday. Armando Spataro said the warrants allowed for the arrest of the suspects in any of the 25 European Union member countries. Previously, Italy had issued ...
Israel threatens to cut Gaza power by Thursday 22 December 2005 3:28 PM GMT Israeli troops killed three Palestinian fighters in Nablus Israel has threatened to cut power supplies to the Gaza Strip as more rockets were fired from the territory after troops killed three Palestinian fighters. Zeev Boim, the deputy defence minister, confirmed on Thursday that the idea of severing electricity supplies to Gaza has recently been discussed in th...
Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote 06:52:14 EST Dec 21, 2005 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian Authority will cancel Jan. 25 parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with its plan to bar Palestinians from voting in disputed Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been under growing pressure from his Fatah Party to postpone the vote, amid concer...
Serbs on trial for Srebrenica massacre by Tuesday 20 December 2005 4:36 PM GMT Footage showed handcuffed prisoners being shot in the back Five Serb paramilitaries who allegedly appeared in a video showing the murder of Muslim youths during the Srebrenica massacre have gone on trial in Belgrade. The war crimes trial is the first to be held in Serbia concerning the July 1995 massacre of about 8000 Muslim males in Bosnia's wartime enclave o...
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 ...
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...
Progressive Muslim MeetUps CBC News Viewpoint | December 13, 2005 | More from Natasha Fatah Natasha Fatah Natasha Fatah is a producer for CBC Radio's Current Affairs Show "As It Happens." Prior to that, she was a television and radio reporter in Windsor, Ontario. She has degrees in Journalism from Ryerson University and in Political Science from the University of Toronto. She has lectured on anti-racism, politics and media studies at elementary and secondary schools around ...
Israel approves building of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements 09:20:19 EST Dec 14, 2005 JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has approved construction of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements, the Defence Ministry said Wednesday, confirming what would be a violation of the U.S.-backed peace plan. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon scrambled to quell a political uproar following a Newsweek report quoting a Sharon aide as sayi...
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...
Alan Jones: I'm the person that's led this charge * * Email * Print * Normal font * Large font By David Marr, Sydney December 13, 2005 AdvertisementAdvertisement BY THURSDAY last week Alan Jones was screaming like a race caller whose horse was coming home. "I'm the person that's led this charge here. Nobody wanted to know about North Cronulla, now it's gathered to this." The ...
Indonesia Muslims to guard churches by Friday 09 December 2005 5:51 AM GMT Christians form the country\'s second largest religious group Volunteers from Indonesia\'s largest Islamic organisation will guard churches across the world\'s most populous Muslim nation on Christmas amid fears of terrorist attacks. Jakarta police have said they will boost security in the capital ahead of Christmas to avoid a repeat of 2000 Christmas Eve bombings...
Christian agency blames U.S. for kidnappings Last Updated Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:28:17 EST CBC News Christian Peacemaker Teams is blaming the U.S. occupation of Iraq for the abduction of four of its members, including two Canadians. * INDEPTH: Iraq James Loney (CP Photo/Christian Peacemaker Teams) In a statement on its website, the agency spoke about how it is saddened by the kidnappings, and how it has long opposed U.S. ...
EU to investigate allegations of secret CIA prisons Last Updated Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:34:40 EST CBC News The European Commission plans to investigate reports that the CIA is running a secret prison system in Eastern Europe and using it to interrogate key al-Qaeda captives. EU officials say they will informally question the European Union's 25 member nations. "We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this, the...
CIA running secret prison system: report Last Updated Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:56:16 EST CBC News The CIA is running a secret prison system in Eastern Europe to interrogate key al-Qaeda captives, according to a published report. The Washington Post reported that the Soviet-era compound is part of a covert prison system that has been run for nearly four years by the U.S. spy agency as part of Washington's war on terrorism. The paper said there...
Israeli defence minister: no peace with Palestinians in this generation 10:28 AM EDT Oct 28 STEVE WEIZMAN JERUSALEM (AP) - Expressing growing frustration with Mahmoud Abbas, Israel's defence minister dismissed the Palestinian leader as "a one-man show" bereft of support from his own people and said he sees little chance that a peace deal can be reached with the Palestinians in the present generation. Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz's remarks were publishe...
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...
Relief workers warn winter could bring 2nd catastrophe to Pakistan quake zone 11:54 AM EDT Oct 26 ZARAR KHAN MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan faces a second catastrophe and a new wave of deaths if the world does not come forward to help survivors of the Oct. 8 earthquake before winter sets in, aid officials said Wednesday, adding that frigid temperatures were already taking a toll on survivors' health. The warning came as the United Nations nearl...
4 dead in blast at Israeli market Last Updated Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:10:49 EDT CBC News At least four people were killed on Wednesday in a bombing in the Israeli coastal city of Hadera, said Israeli police and emergency workers. * INDEPTH: Middle East Ambulances rushed to a market area in the Mediterranean coastal city as emergency workers treated people in a nearby field. Police say a Palestinian suicide bomber detonate...
Israel fires missiles into Gaza by Monday 24 October 2005 5:42 PM GMT Two resistance fighters were killed by Israeli troops on Sunday Israeli army helicopters have fired two rockets into the Gaza Strip in response to a series of attacks by Palestinian resistance fighters, witnesses and security sources say. One raid on Tuesday was against a building belonging to the Fatah movement of Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas in Bait Hanun in the north o...
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 ...
Aljazeera cameraman 'asked to spy' by Monday 26 September 2005 7:36 AM GMT Al-Hajj has been in Guantanamo prison after his arrest in 2001 An Aljazeera cameraman, held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, has been promised release if he spies on his colleagues at the channel, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reports. The Guardian reported on Monday that the US military told Sami Muhyi al-Din al-Hajj that he would be released as long as he a...
US televangelist wants Chavez killed by Tuesday 23 August 2005 6:56 AM GMT Chavez has emerged as one of America's harshest critics US televangelist Pat Robertson has called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez while a radio host has been fired by a Washington station after he refused to apologise for calling Islam a terrorist organisation. Calling Chavez a "terrific danger" to the US, Robertson, founder of the Christ...
US church rebukes Israel for barrier by Sunday 14 August 2005 7:09 AM GMT The wall is splitting the church's Jerusalem assembly into three A five-million-strong US church has rebuked Israel for building a separation barrier along the West Bank, becoming the second major US Protestant denomination to reject policies implemented by the Jewish state. The resolution titled "Peace Not Wall" was adopted on Saturday on a 668-269 vote by members...
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...
Straw admits UK part of Iraq problem by Monday 01 August 2005 11:19 PM GMT Belka: Using post-war Germany as a model for Iraq a mistake The British foreign secretary has admitted that the presence of British and US troops in Iraq is fuelling the uprising there, and the Polish prime minister has said post-war nation-building efforts have "failed totally". In an interview on Tuesday with Britain's Financial Times newspaper, British Foreign ...
Jewish leaders worried by escalating Israel-Vatican spat over terror comments 01:09 PM EDT Jul 29 NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) - Jewish leaders said Friday they were worried by an escalating spat between the Vatican and Israel over papal pronouncements on terrorism and urged both sides to tone down the rhetoric to avoid any lasting damage to relations. Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, said the dispute was "only damaging for both parties" and...
MI5 links bomb attacks to Iraq war by Christian Henderson Friday 29 July 2005 6:07 AM GMT The agency's position contradicts that of Blair The British intelligence agency MI5 has said there is a link between the Iraq war and the recent bombing campaign in London. In an information briefing released on MI5's website after the 7 July attacks the agency said Iraq was a key issue motivating the bombers. "Though they have a rang...
Italian court issues arrest warrants for more CIA agents Last Updated Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:54:29 EDT CBC News An Italian court has issued arrest warrants for six more alleged CIA agents, accusing them of helping kidnap an Egyptian Muslim cleric in 2003, a court official says. In June, a judge issued warrants for 13 alleged CIA operatives, but turned down the requests for six others accused of involvement in the abduction of Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr. Pr...
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...
Angered by Iraq war, bombers driven to suicide attacks, say friends 12:20 PM EDT Jul 15 SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI LEEDS, England (AP) - Shahzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old son of an affluent Pakistani-born businessman, turned to Islam, the religion of his birth, a few years ago. The transformation was gradual, but then his relentless reading of the Qur'an and daily prayers became almost an obsession, his friends told The Associated Press. He became withdrawn...
Bloody Week in Iraq; One US Airstrike Destroys an Ambulance, A Separate US Airstrike Kills a Journalist on Live Television by Eric Jaffa September 15, 2004 Overview of recent violence, from NNN ("84 Killed, 90 Injured In Unabated Iraq Violence," September 13, 2004): At least nine people were killed in American attacks on militant positions in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Monday morning, taking the death toll to 84 in the una...
Top Israeli official says barrier meant to ensure Jewish majority in Jerusalem 02:06 PM EDT Jul 11 KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's separation barrier in and around Jerusalem is meant to ensure a Jewish majority in the disputed city, a cabinet minister acknowledged Monday, contradicting government claims that the divider is solely a temporary security measure. Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved final details of the 65-kilometre Jerusalem barrier, ...
Israel accused of redrawing borders by Sunday 10 July 2005 12:04 PM GMT Palestinians have reacted angrily to the Israeli plan Israel's approval of a new route for its West Bank separation barrier is part of a political agenda designed, under the pretext of security, to mark the state's borders, a Palestinian official has said. Ziyad Abu Ziyad, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was reacting to the move by Tel Aviv to extend...
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...
EU envoy says Jerusalem barrier raises humanitarian concerns 12:09 PM EDT Jul 11 KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) - The separation barrier Israel is building in Jerusalem raises humanitarian problems for Palestinians and could complicate future negotiations on a final peace deal, the visiting European Foreign policy chief said Monday, after meeting with Israeli leaders. Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved final details of the Jerusalem barrier, which will cut...
The US war with Iran has already begun by Scott Ritter Sunday 19 June 2005 12:06 PM GMT Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of that country by US forces), but also about the very process that led to war. On 16 October 2002, President Bu...
Israeli, Palestinian killed in shootings by Monday 20 June 2005 6:13 AM GMT The attack was near Baka al-Sharqiya, 10km north of Tulkarim An Israeli civilian and a Palestinian teenager have been shot dead in the Palestinian territories, the Israeli army and medical sources on both sides say. In the northern West Bank, an Israeli man was killed and a teenager injured when Palestinian fighters ambushed their car, the army and medics said....
Israel to build sea barrier off Gaza by Friday 17 June 2005 1:17 PM GMT Israel has ignored an ICJ ruling and a UN resolution The Israeli navy plans to build a sea barrier off the coast of northern Gaza, saying it will keep out potential attackers once Israel pulls back from occupied land this summer, military officials say. The navy said the barrier, stretching 950m into the sea, is necessary because of the expected loss of surveillance ...
Saudis debate ban on women drivers by Friday 10 June 2005 5:27 AM GMT Saudi Arabia is the only country that prohibits women drivers A Saudi man's call to lift a decades-old ban against women driving - the only prohibition of its kind in the world - has been met with death threats and opposition. Mohammed al-Zulfa's knew his proposal last month to Saudi Arabia's appointed advisory council, of which he is a member, would stir controversy....
Palestinian militant groups step up threat to call off ceasefire 12:12 PM EDT Jun 13 IBRAHIM BARZAK GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - After a four-month lull in fighting, Palestinian militant groups on Monday stepped up a threat to withdraw from a ceasefire with Israel but stopped short of pulling out of the deal. The militant factions, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, accused Israel of violating the truce with continued military operations. ...
Outgoing chief warns extremist Jews could open fire during Gaza pullout 12:22 PM EDT Jun 10 RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI JERUSALEM (AP) - Jewish extremists could open fire on troops during this summer's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, or even carry out a suicide attack to kill the prime minister, the outgoing chief of the Shin Bet security service warned in interviews published Friday. Avi Dichter, who last month ended a five-year term as head of the Shin Bet...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-06-03T184426Z_01_N03269274_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-TERRORISM-DC.XML Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed in book Fri Jun 3, 2005 2:44 PM ET By Patricia Wilson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with Islamic fundamentalism, according to the author of a n...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-06-03T153128Z_01_N03252941_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-MIDEAST-REVENGE-DC.XML Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree Fri Jun 3, 2005 11:31 AM ET By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli commandos killed eight Palestinian policemen in "eye for an eye" shootings three years ago that were ordered to avenge comrades slain in an ambush on an army checkpoint in the ...
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050603/w060360.html War crimes court asked to investigate 7 suspects in Srebrenica execution video 02:40 PM EDT Jun 03 BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Prosecutors asked a war crimes court Friday to investigate seven men suspected of being the killers seen this week in video footage of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. Ten suspects were arrested after the video was aired Wednesday on Serbian TV. Four remain in custod...
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...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/38C7D317-77AC-4B68-BEB0-ADB406473FB4.htm During his tenure as Air Force Commander between 2000-2004, Halutz approved and oversaw operations that caused the death of many Palestinian civilians, including numerous children. In July 2002, Halutz ordered the Israeli air force to drop a one-tonne bomb on a Gaza apartment complex, killing 14 civilians, including at least 10 children. The target of the bombing was Salah...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb from a suicide attacker tore through a mosque during Wednesday's funeral for a Muslim cleric opposed to the Taliban, killing at least 20 people, and the local governor said an al-Qaida-linked militant was responsible. At least 42 people were wounded. The attack - which came on the heels of a major upsurge in rebel violence in recent months including assassinations, near-daily clashes with rebels and the kidnapping of an Italian ai...
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Jerusalem municipality will push ahead with plans to demolish 88 homes in an Arab neighbourhood in the disputed city to make room for a national park, the city engineer overseeing the project told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The plan has infuriated the Palestinians. It comes at a time of growing Israeli-Palestinian tension over the fate of Jerusalem, a city claimed by both as a capital. The demolition campaign, if approved, would be one of the largest i...
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050518/w051854.html It appears the WhiteHouse is trying to claim they are the victim of a conspiracy when they themselves use anonymous sources to give credibility to their actions. I wonder if it's more likely that Newsweek's source was found by the US government and threatened to rebuke his statement. The US denied Abu Ghraib until the pictures came out. I would also note Newsweek's argument, that there have been many reports about thi...
I was shocked and outraged when I first heard of this case on the news because it was a story done so well that seemed to be a clear case of the victim being arrested for no reason. But then Iasked myself some questions and wondered if there could be more to the story? Why would the UAE and Dubai who admittedly depend on foreign investment and Western tourism which they have worked so hard to attract do this? Some less than reputable groups would gleam that "see...
I am a Canadian born, Chinese Muslim (Han) and would like to say a few things. Before visiting China I had the same incorrect opinion that most people do, because of the lies in the media. I support China's efforts and response to the violence in Xinjiang because I've seen the truth for myself after visiting China twice, and find the media accounts on this event and most other events and descriptions of everday life to be far from the truth. China does not ...
akmeme, I mean no offense but I think this is only about separatism and these are lies. No Uighur's have presented any logical arguments to me. Also why do Uighur's support the violence in Xinjiang? Uighur's here tried to convince me I cannot pray at the Mosque in China, when you didn't know I am a Muslim. If Rebiya Kadeer is the leader of Uighur protests she is a terrorist. I have shown through Xin Hua and the comments of the victims family in...
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...
Ifound this information useful, they have different religions and ethnicities in Xinjiang, and most are Muslims. http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/139389.htm It does not make sense that if China is attacking Muslims, why the other groups are not complaining. It seems that the Uighur's are as a majority have a separatist movement going on. It's unfortunate that so many are swayed into the idea of separatism when China has respected Islam throughout th...
Bet you were only there as a tourist. Offcourse, you only saw what China wants to present Xinkiang to the world. Suggest you talk to local people, and special those living in south part of Xinkiang next time when you are there. Yes, every religion calls for peace and harmony, but what if you can not pratice your relligion freely, and you are discriminated just because you are a muslim. As a chinese muslim, good for you, you are not practicing your religion th...
I do not agree with people complaining that Uighur's are protesting. It is your right to protest if you want, and there were a lot of people bashing Uighur's for this. I do not agree with some of the racists bashing Uighur's, unfortunately in Canada there are lots of racists who do not like new Canadians. But what I do not understand, is that I cannot find any solid information about why some Uighur's are upset with China. I have heard the accusations, but hav...
Imam Abudurekefu Akhond of the China Islamic Assocation also denounced the violence and said: "Uygurs are well known for their hospitality. Those rioters are not representatives of the Uygur people," "The Islam creed advocates peace and harmony", he added. "Different ethnic groups should show respect to and learn from each other with mutual understanding." I also want to add, that no one blamed Buddhism in the Tibetan uprising. In fact ...
akmeme said Bet you were only there as a tourist. Offcourse, you only saw what China wants to present Xinkiang to the world. Suggest you talk to local people, and special those living in south part of Xinkiang next time when you are there. Yes, every religion calls for peace and harmony, but what if you can not pratice your relligion freely, and you are discriminated just because you are a muslim. As a chinese muslim, good for you, you are not practicing your reli...
I am very saddened at the violence in Xinjiang, where fellow Chinese (Han and Uighur) have been fighting amongst each other. I hope that the people of Xinjiang will not fall into the trap and violence that was set by separtists. Regardless of your ethnic background, China has the policy that "everyone is Chinese" and that achieving peace and harmony can only be done through equal treatment of all citizens. I also do not think it is fair to villify Uighurs ...
This is just in response to the anti-Islamists who have been copying and pasting from anti-Islamic hate sites to miscontrue Islam.The Qur'an does not allow for any violence except in the case of self-defense, in fact the Qur'an repeats over and over that if the enemy (in times of war) wants peace, you can't continue fighting.This issue has nothing to do with Islam, it has to do with occupation and the Zionist leaders in Israel wanting a "Jewish" majority, and Ra...
I've noticed that many of the more clever debaters and anti-Islamists, instead of focusing on the facts and evidence I present, instead do their best to make me look like a bad person through insinuations and other irrelevant comments.Whenever you take a quote from the Qur'an, they will often just ignore it and respond with something about a Hadith or an insult:Example:sa...
Key points from the Qur'an to consider: 2:79 Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say:"This is from Allah," to traffic with it for miserable price!- Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.2:159 Those who conceal the clear (Signs) We have sent down, and the Guidan...
Our response:I'd like to reply first of all by saying you cannot take random verses out of the Qu'ran and come to a conclusion. You have also just picked keywords and phrases out of the verses, some of which end by stating violence can only be used against those who fight you, and not those who offer you peace.We could find the same conclusion by analyzing the Bible or the Tor'ah (there are sites out there just like hate...
A Filthy Man By Areeb Yasir Recently, I witnessed the tragic separation of a daughter and her parents. A grossly incompetent husband stripped her of her last esteem and tore this wonderful woman from her loving parents. Why? How? Simply put, this filthy man bluntly told her parents ‘don’t ever call your daughter again.’ And than, he took her and his two daughters to a different province, where she knows no one; where he can further hinder her helpless. After performing Haj...
This is what an educated Canadian said on CBC about Ann McLellan's comment about us not being prepared for transit attacks. It's refreshing to see that many Canadians are educated and rational unlike our Liberal government. (If we chose the NDP we know we would not be involved in any unjust or illegal wars that put us in harms way). What some Canadians had to say about McLellan's comments on CBC view point: I have no desire whatsoever to become "psychologica...
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 ...
Allah is GOD in "Aramaic", the language Jesus spoke With Ramadan around the corner (generally accepted as tomorrow if the new moon is sighted) I felt like doing some research and it turns out what my friend said is true (god is "Allah" in Armaic") and hopefully the Christians that knock on my door every few months will come back soon (although they promised to visit soon last time we spoke). It is a historical fact that Jesus spoke the "Aramaic" language so n...
The BCMA Mark Nasid, Prince George The BCMA, British Columbia Muslim Association, claims they have tried to contact CBC for interviews, for visits on Eid, but no one has come. I have a sister who works for CBC and found out that they never received a invitation. If BCMA is doing this, than why doesn’t anyone ever hear about it in the Mosques. I have a brother in Vancouver, and I ask him all the time about what BCMA is doing to do damage control on our Muslim brother’s and ...
Poetry By Nada (note to the reader, this is a copy righted item and can not be linked or copied without the consent from the author) copy righted 2005 Nada Mansuek Send my love to all those who died, to Americans, and Iraqi’s alike. There are too many to count, and write down. So I’m sorry if I missed your name. To anyone who lost one of your own Just remember that you’re still alive. Rest well uncle, Allah (God) has ...
The Christian Effect Areeb Yasir Christian organizations are everywhere, helping and giving to the poor. They are in South Africa, India, Afghanistan, Mexio and Iran. They are everywhere, trying to help everyone. But what they are doing in exchange is preaching Christianity, encouraging Muslims and other believers from different faiths to become Christian. Of course, the main thing is that they are helping. How many Muslim organizations out there are there i...
Hello UniteIslam! I accidentally came across your website one day after seeing a very upsetting article on the CBC website. It was by a Mr. Velk. He is one of their regular writers and has written many articles. The most recent one that I read from him, bothered me so much that I had to write in to CBC. He was stating the Canada should adopt American and British policies regarding ‘Terrorists’ and immigration. And we all know who those policies will specifically target, MUSLIMS. Anyways,...
The Fools they are Abriham, Vancouver I had to post this when I saw the article “To Mr. Velk”. I have noticed that same thing. I regularly read the CBC website, and you’re right. The CBC website and even radio and television do a very poor job at reporting. Why is it that every time I switch on CBC, I see the same thing; Muslim terrorist this Muslim terrorist that. This type of reporting is causing all sorts of trouble in the Muslim communities. They never say Christian KKK...
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...
The Worst People. By Areeb Yasir. It was long ago, in the days of Prophet Mohammad (peace and blessings be upon him), that everyday citizen’s of Islam cared for their fellow brothers and sisters. They took into their homes, fed, and clothed, gave money to the poor and loved one another. Doing what was right, was the main focus of that time, following Allah and doing right. That time has passed, dead with the ancient people, buried in the sand. We have long f...
Of Culture and Religion By Areeb Yasir Vancouver The biggest challenge I faced when entering the Muslim religion, by my own accord; was the different cultures involved in the community. It would seem that Islam plays a back seat role to culture. In particular this is the most obvious in the Pakistani and Fijian communities. When I asked a question from one of the brothers pertaining to family life (in regards to if leaving them for 40 or more days for the sake of Jam...
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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