Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region
Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...

Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims
Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 8:47 AM ET Comments40...

Michael turns Muslim
London - Michael Jackson has become a Muslim. The singer changed his name to Mikaeel in a ceremony at a friend's Los Angeles home just days before he is due in court. Jackson, 50, is facing allegations of borrowing £4.7m ($7.3m) from Arab sheikh Abdulla Al-Khalifa and failing to repay the sum by recording two new albums, writing an autobiography and penning a musical. The cash-strapped star - who was raised as a Jehovah's Witness - was convinced to turn to I...

Judge orders release of Uighurs into U.S.
Judge orders release of Uighurs into U.S. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | 1:45 PM ET Comments3...

B.C. tribunal hears complaint against Maclean's article
B.C. tribunal hears complaint against Maclean's article Last Updated: Monday, June 2, 2008 | 10:31 PM ET Comments2...

White supremacists, anti-racism protesters clash in Calgary over veiled voting
White supremacists, anti-racism protesters clash in Calgary over veiled voting Last Updated: Monday, October 15, 2007 | 10:22 AM MT CBC News Two people face assault charges after members of a white supremacist group protesting a decision to allow veiled voting faced off against anti-racism demonstrators ou...

Iran says UN agency's report shows Tehran not trying to make nuclear weapons
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...

Comments on Klein's wife spark new controversy for Western Standard
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 ...

Western Canadian magazine publishes Muhammad cartoons
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. ...

New Conservative Magazine Launched in Canada in Wake of Alberta Report Demise
New Conservative Magazine Launched in Canada in Wake of Alberta Report Demise EDMONTON, December 18, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Former National Post columnist Ezra Levant has launched a new Canadian conservative magazine, filling a void in the Canadian market since the demise of Alberta report this summer. Levant spoke to LifeSiteNews.com yesterday about ...

Israeli troops, Jewish settlers clash
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...

Who'd have thought it - Blinky Bill, the face of race hatred
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 ...

Settler-funding a billion dollar question
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...

Straw admits UK part of Iraq problem
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 ...

Israeli, Palestinian killed in shootings
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....

UN panel scolds Canada over U.S. deportation of Ottawa man to Syria
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050520/w052036.html I do not get this one. The US is the country who actually sent Arar to Syria, though he was a Canadian citizen, shouldn't the US be blamed too? They have been found to have been torturing people which is clearly against the Geneva conventions yet I don't see any action being taken against them. The illegal invasion (says Koffi Annan) of Iraq should be enough. The US continues to defy international law yet there are c...

General Colin Powell Remarks
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My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC
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 ...

Of Culture and Religion
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...