This will be a multi-part series but the answer is quite simple to those who know historical fact from what they see on TV or read in the newspapers. The latest example comes from Syria where we are still told the terrorism that has gripped Syria since 2011 was the result of peaceful protests and a desire for change. What is happening in Syria is part of long-term colonization and a fight for resources which the Middle East possesses. Unfortunately for the colonizers there...
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...
Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50 Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 3:48 PM ET Comments5...
Muslims react with hope, caution to Obama's offer of 'new way forward' Last Updated: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | 11:58 AM ET Comments47...
Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now Published: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 8:03 PM ET Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops began to withdraw from Gaza Sunday after their government and Hamas militants declared an end...
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Smoking ban threatens Vancouver's hookah tea houses Last Updated: Thursday, September 20, 2007 | 1:33 PM ET CBC News Story Tools: E-MAIL | PRINT | Text Size: ...
Iranian president banned from laying wreath at Ground Zero Last Updated: Thursday, September 20, 2007 | 8:12 AM ET The Associated Press A request by Iran's president to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site next week has been turned down by police and blasted by a U.S. diplomat as an attempt to turn Ground Zero into a "photo op." Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ...
U.S., India sign nuclear deal Last Updated Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:49:20 EST CBC News The United States and India have signed a controversial nuclear agreement representing a major shift in American nuclear policy. "We concluded a historic agreement today on nuclear power," U.S. President George W. Bush said on Thursday after meeting with India's...
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...
Pakistani cleric announces big reward for killing Prophet cartoonist 10:54:59 EST Feb 17, 2006 ...
If ever there was an instance where a small but hurtful act had worldwide implications, it was when a Danish newspaper hit the streets on Sept. 30, 2005. The paper featured caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, one of them depicting him wearing a turban in the form of a time bomb. The 12 cartoons were commissioned by the conservative paper Jyllands-Posten. Since then, the caricatures have caused an uproar in the Muslim world and sparked a new battle over freedom of speech, religiou...
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, ...
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 ...
Iranian president calls Holocaust a 'myth' Last Updated Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:15:57 EST CBC News Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stirred up international controversy Wednesday with a speech calling the Holocaust a "myth." * INDEPTH: Iran Ahmadinejad said the myth has been created by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world. "Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and co...
Iran's anti-Israel remarks: Arabs mum by Thursday 27 October 2005 3:15 PM GMT Egypt said the remarks were for a conservative audience Arab governments have maintained silence over the call by Iran's new president for Israel to be wiped off the map. Newspapers across the Middle East reported Wednesday's speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without comment, many of them on their front pages. Egyptian Foreign Ministry and ...
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...
Banish Iran from UN, Peres demands Last Updated Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:27:45 EDT CBC News Iran should be expelled from the United Nations after calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map," Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Thursday. * INDEPTH: Iran Shimon Perez "Since the United Nations was established in 1945, there has never been a head of state that is a UN member state that publicly called for the elimination...
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...
Library removes Kazemi photos after complaint Last Updated Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:05:21 EDT CBC Arts An exhibition of work by slain Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi has been shut down, following complaints it was too sympathetic to the Palestinian uprising. Last week, a collection of 23 black-and-white photos Kazemi took during her travels in countries like Israel, Iran and Afghanistan opened at a municipal library in the Montreal borough of Côte Saint-...
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Is any Muslim who doesn't like lies being told about them must be a radical?Why should I go back to the middle east, we were born here and our origins are not from the middle east.That's the problem people face when it comes to racists who don't know the facts and base their opinions on stereotypes.There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, less than 1% could fall into your radical category. I certainly don't, either, I've never committe...
No longer Christian? 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 I was a good believer, in love with God, But one day a man took me into his arms. He forced me down, on the grass, And ripped my clothes to shreds. My screams muffled in his mouth, He tore into my womanhood with lust. I prayed and begg...
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