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  • Rally denounces apparent B.C. hate crime
    Rally denounces apparent B.C. hate crime Last Updated: Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 7:14 PM PT Comments0...
  • China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest
    China ramps up propaganda to quell unrest Last Updated: Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 4:16 PM ET Comments103...
  • Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50
    Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50 Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 3:48 PM ET Comments5...
  • British MP Galloway says he'll sue Kenney, Jewish groups for libel
    British MP Galloway says he'll sue Kenney, Jewish groups for libel Last Updated: Friday, May 1, 2009 | 2:05 PM ET Comments392...
  • Racism accusations fly over man in Sudan denied emergency passport
    Racism accusations fly over man in Sudan denied emergency passport Last Updated: Friday, April 3, 2009 | 8:08 PM ET Comments360...
  • B.C. man pepper-sprayed by U.S. border guard
    B.C. man pepper-sprayed by U.S. border guard Last Updated: Thursday, March 5, 2009 | 5:57 PM PT Comments44...
  • 'Good without God' ad campaign raises questions in Vancouver
    'Good without God' ad campaign raises questions in Vancouver Similar ads rejected in Victoria and Halifax Last Updated: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | 2:04 PM PT Comments84...
  • Turkish PM gets hero's welcome after shouting match with Israeli leader
    Turkish PM gets hero's welcome after shouting match with Israeli leader Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2009 | 7:35 AM ET Comments99...
  • Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire
    Air strike, bombing threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire Last Updated: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | 12:06 PM ET Comments340...
  • Hockey player says Burnaby fight was racially motivated
    Hockey player says Burnaby fight was racially motivated Last Updated: Monday, January 26, 2009 | 10:16 PM PT Comments2...
  • War in Gaza draws U.S. viewers in droves to watch Al-Jazeera English
    War in Gaza draws U.S. viewers in droves to watch Al-Jazeera English Published: Saturday, January 24, 2009 | 5:08 PM ET Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine DOHA, Qatar - American viewership of Al-Jazeera English rose dramatically during the Israel-Hamas war, partly because the chan...
  • Surrey victim of alleged police attack claims he was kicked, robbed and racially abused
    Surrey victim of alleged police attack claims he was kicked, robbed and racially abused By Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver SunJanuary 23, 2009 7:26 PMComments (3) ...
  • Fragile ceasefire continues in Gaza
    Fragile ceasefire continues in Gaza Officials expected to meet on Sunday Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2009 | 9:21 PM ET Comments0...
  • Israel pulling out of Gaza; Hamas ceases fire - at least for now
    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...
  • Before ceasefire, Gaza doctor's grief was heard on live Israeli TV
    Before ceasefire, Gaza doctor's grief was heard on live Israeli TV 'Oh, God, my daughters!' he cried after Israeli shells hit house Last Updated: Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 10:29 PM ET Comments249...
  • UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery
    UN headquarters in Gaza City hit by Israeli artillery Last Updated: Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 5:58 AM ET Comments189...
  • Canada gives $4M for Gaza relief
    Canada gives $4M for Gaza relief Last Updated: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 | 1:27 PM ET Comments286...
  • Palestinian supporters in Vancouver rally against Israeli attacks
    Palestinian supporters in Vancouver rally against Israeli attacks Erin Loxam VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) | Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 5:27 pm ...
  • 9 Muslim passengers kicked off U.S. flight over remark
    9 Muslim passengers kicked off U.S. flight over remark Last Updated: Friday, January 2, 2009 | 3:20 PM ET Comments2...
  • UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets
    UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets Last Updated: Monday, December 29, 2008 | 9:53 PM ET Comments1198...
  • U.S. authorities uncover skinhead plot to assassinate Obama
    U.S. authorities uncover skinhead plot to assassinate Obama Last Updated: Monday, October 27, 2008 | 6:01 PM ET Comments145...
  • Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees
    Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees U.S. defence secretary calls for swift closure of prison Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 8:11 PM ET Comments20...
  • Muslim Group Opposes Little Big Planet's Censorship
    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 ...
  • Officials' actions contributed to men's torture
    Officials' actions contributed to men's torture 21/10/2008 7:03:42 PM The actions of Canadian officials made an indirect contribution to the torture of Arab-Canadian men in Syria,...
  • B.C. Human Rights Commission rejects complaint against Maclean's
    B.C. Human Rights Commission rejects complaint against Maclean's Last Updated: Friday, October 10, 2008 | 8:14 PM ET Comments37...
  • 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...
  • Islam convert jailed 35 years for plotting U.S. mall attack
    Islam convert jailed 35 years for plotting U.S. mall attack Last Updated: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | 4:30 PM ET Comments22...
  • One more day of Ramadan for BC Muslims
    One more day of Ramadan for BC Muslims &l...
  • Muslim workers ponder next steps in Nebraska prayer dispute
    Muslim workers ponder next steps in Nebraska prayer dispute Meatpacking company confirms 86 fired for taking unauthorized breaks Last Updated: Saturday, September 20, 2008 | 9:13 PM ET Comments158...
  • 1 dead, several injured by blasts in China's Xinjiang region
    1 dead, several injured by blasts in China's Xinjiang region Last Updated: Saturday, August 9, 2008 | 7:16 PM ET Comments3...
  • An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead.
    Attackers kill 16 police in Chinese border province 04/08/2008 10:53:15 PM An attack in a Muslim-majority province in far western China has left 16 police officers dead....
  • Forum hopes to clear up misconceptions about Islam
    Forum hopes to clear up misconceptions about Islam ...
  • 29 dead, dozens wounded as blasts hit western India
    29 dead, dozens wounded as blasts hit western India Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 3:06 PM ET Comments16...
  • Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers
    Hamas, Hezbollah websites hosted by Canadian servers Last Updated: Friday, July 11, 2008 | 7:38 PM ET Comments23...
  • Big mosque on the Prairie opens in Calgary
    Big mosque on the Prairie opens in Calgary Last Updated: Saturday, July 5, 2008 | 4:38 PM MT Comments243...
  • Rights commission dismisses complaint against Maclean's
    Rights commission dismisses complaint against Maclean's Last Updated: Saturday, June 28, 2008 | 7:09 PM ET Comments146...
  • Little Mosque producers strike deal with Fox
    Little Mosque producers strike deal with Fox Last Updated: Monday, June 9, 2008 | 3:29 PM CT Comments15...
  • Race the top motivator for hate crimes in Canada: report
    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...
  • Freedom of speech needs to be upheld, embattled Maclean's writer says
    Freedom of speech needs to be upheld, embattled Maclean's writer says Last Updated: Friday, June 6, 2008 | 7:31 PM ET Comments32...
  • 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...
  • Canada denies Muslim husband entry visa
    Canada denies Muslim husband entry visa Immigration department cites differences in 'culture and religion' Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 | 9:05 PM ET CBC News Story Tools: E-MAIL | PRINT | ...
  • B.C. detention was bid to silence anti-war activists, American says
    B.C. detention was bid to silence anti-war activists, American says Last Updated: Sunday, September 16, 2007 | 4:10 PM ET CBC News Story Tools: E-MAIL | PRINT | Text Size: ...
  • After public hearing council is exploring exemptions to smoking by-law
    After public hearing council is exploring exemptions to smoking by-law Sep, 20 2007 - 2:40 PM VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - Vancouver city council is looking at changes to its new health by-law that would effectively ban smoking in the city. As of April 1st, smokers would be under a proviso ...
  • Smoking ban threatens Vancouver's hookah tea houses
    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: ...
  • Elections Canada chief won't back down on veiled voting
    Elections Canada chief won't back down on veiled voting Last Updated: Monday, September 10, 2007 | 12:16 PM ET CBC News Veiled women will not have to show their faces at polling stations in upcoming elections, but theymay be asked for sworn statements in some situations to verify their identities, Ca...
  • 'Chilly climate' greets Muslim university students: report
    '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...
  • Former Israeli PM speaks to Vancouver audience
    Former Israeli PM speaks to Vancouver audience Dec, 03 2006 - 11:20 PM VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - Under tight security, Vancouver played host to a former Israeli Prime Minister. Speaking at an Oak Street Synagogue for a fundraiser, Ehud Barak says, unlike Canada, Israel comes from a tough neighborhood, constantly under threat. Barak says Israel is a ray of ligh...
  • Annan: Media should respect religion
    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...
  • 'My kidnappers were not criminals'
    'My kidnappers were not criminals' by Monday 26 December 2005 7:36 PM GMT Susanne Osthoff said that her captors wanted humanitarian aid A former German hostage who spent 24 days in the hands of unknown captors in Iraq has said her kidnappers are not criminals and have demanded humanitarian aid for Sunni Arab regions. Speaking to Aljazeera satellite channel, Susanne Osthoff said her captors told her not to be afraid as her kidnapping was ...
  • Top US general: Iraqis want us out
    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. ...
  • Church urges PM to demand withdrawal of troops from Iraq
    Church urges PM to demand withdrawal of troops from Iraq Last Updated Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:08:54 EST CBC News The United Church of Canada wants Prime Minister Paul Martin to help free four western hostages in Iraq by demanding that all coalition troops be withdrawn from the country. * INDEPTH: Iraq The church issued an open letter to Martin on Wednesday saying the foreign military occupation of Iraq must end. "We implor...
  • Israel threatens to cut Gaza power
    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...
  • Serbs on trial for Srebrenica massacre
    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...
  • Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations
    Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations by Firas Al-Atraqchi in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:07 PM GMT Armstrong was in Cairo as a guest of the American University One of the foremost authorities on monotheistic religions and traditions, Karen Armstrong's writings on Islam have come into public focus following 9-11. Born in 1944, Armstrong began her journey to faith as a Roman Catholic nun but left her order in 1969 when s...
  • Iraq election body rejects fraud claims
    Iraq election body rejects fraud claims by Tuesday 20 December 2005 8:40 AM GMT Al-Dulaimi demanded a new election be held in Baghdad Iraq's Electoral Commission has rejected a call from the biggest Sunni bloc to rerun last week's vote in Baghdad after partial results showed the ruling Shia Alliance with a big majority in the capital. Adnan al-Dulaimi, one of the leaders of the National Concord Front coalition, said the group rejected th...
  • Iran warns Israel of swift retaliation
    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, ...
  • Iran's anti-Israel remarks: Arabs mum
    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 ...
  • UN report says Volvo, DaimlerChrysler among those who paid Saddam kickbacks
    UN report says Volvo, DaimlerChrysler among those who paid Saddam kickbacks 12:32 PM EDT Oct 27 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - About half of the 4,500 companies in the UN oil-for-food program, including Volvo and DaimlerChrysler, paid $1.8 billion US in kickbacks and illicit surcharges to Saddam Hussein's government, a UN-backed investigation said in a report released Thursday. The report alleged that Jean-Bernard Merrimee, France's former UN ambassador, received $165...
  • Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman
    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...
  • Israel fires missiles into Gaza
    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 Supreme Court bans military use of Palestinian civilians as 'shields'
    Israel Supreme Court bans military use of Palestinian civilians as 'shields' 12:23 PM EDT Oct 06 JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday banned the military's practice of using Palestinian civilians as "human shields" in arrest raids, saying it violates international law. The court ruled in response to petitions by human rights groups. In August 2002, the court had issued a temporary injunction against the practice. Human rights groups have said t...
  • Israel accused of skewing elections
    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 ...
  • Billions plundered from Iraq military
    Billions plundered from Iraq military by Monday 19 September 2005 3:35 AM GMT Critics charge the Iraqi military is poorly equipped A billion dollars has been plundered from the coffers of Iraq's defence ministry, seriously affecting the government's ability to maintain law and order, the Independent newspaper says. "It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history," the paper said in its Monday edition, quoting Iraqi Finance Minister ...
  • Israel repeats threat to hamper polls
    Israel repeats threat to hamper polls by Wednesday 21 September 2005 9:46 AM GMT Minister Silvan Shalom addressed the UN General Assembly Israel has reiterated threats to hamper January's Palestinian election if the Islamic movement Hamas stands, despite being urged by the US to cooperate in organising the polls. "We will not allow Hamas to take part in the elections," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told public radio in an interview on W...
  • Israeli Arabs cannot be 'terror victims'
    Israeli Arabs cannot be 'terror victims' by Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:03 PM GMT The Israeli soldier was a member of the Kach terror group The Israeli soldier who killed four Israeli Arabs in a shooting rampage on a bus has been branded a Jewish terrorist, but the people who died cannot be recognised as terrorist victims, the defence ministry says. Under current Israeli law, an assailant must be a member of the "enemy forces" against Isra...
  • Israel orders Palestinian land seized
    Israel orders Palestinian land seized by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Wednesday 24 August 2005 4:27 PM GMT The Israeli barrier in Maale Adumim has Palestinians worried Israel has issued orders to seize Palestinian-owned land to link a main Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank to Jerusalem, officials say, a step that could isolate Palestinians from Jerusalem. An Israeli government spokesman on Wednesday said orders were issued t...
  • Reuters demands cameraman be freed
    Reuters demands cameraman be freed by Sunday 28 August 2005 3:47 PM GMT Walid Khalid was killed while on assignment Reuters has demanded the immediate release of an Iraqi cameraman who is still held by US forces more than 24 hours after being wounded in an incident which killed his soundman. Iraqi police said the news team was shot by US soldiers. The US military said it was still investigating and refused to say what ques...
  • US televangelist wants Chavez killed
    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...
  • 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 ...
  • Jewish leaders worried by escalating Israel-Vatican spat over terror
    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...
  • Palestinians protest Gaza smokescreen
    Palestinians protest Gaza smokescreen by Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Thursday 28 July 2005 12:40 PM GMT Six Palestinian protesters were wounded by Israeli forces Palestinians have burned rubber tyres along the trail of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank in a symbolic protest against its ongoing construction under the smokescreen of the Gaza pullout. Black smoke seen rising along the wall's path from the areas of Marda to Qalandi...
  • Israeli forces kill teenager in Jenin
    Israeli forces kill teenager in Jenin by Wednesday 27 July 2005 2:49 PM GMT Yusuf Haseef was shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces Israeli occupation troops have shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander in the West Bank town of Jenin while a four-year-old was seriously wounded in shooting at the Rafah refugee camp near Gaza. The forces, backed by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, entered the Palestinian town of Jenin around midd...
  • Settlers kill W Bank boy, witnesses say
    Settlers kill W Bank boy, witnesses say by Wednesday 20 July 2005 8:01 PM GMT Jewish settlers have stabbed a Palestinian boy to death in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, witnesses said. They said the 12-year-old was ambushed on Wednesday by several settlers near his home at Qaryot village outside the Palestinian-ruled city of Nablus. He was stabbed 11 times, paramedics said. Palestinians who seek statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip ...
  • Britain's alliance with U.S. puts it at risk of terrorism, think tank says
    Britain's alliance with U.S. puts it at risk of terrorism, think tank says 12:17 PM EDT Jul 18 ED JOHNSON LONDON (AP) - Britain's close alliance with the United States has put it at particular risk of terrorist attack, two leading think tanks said Monday, but a government minister said the nation would not have been safer by staying out of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The continuing debate about the wisdom of Britain's military commitments has intensi...
  • Many killed in Iraq violence
    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...
  • Angered by Iraq war, bombers driven to suicide attacks, say friends
    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...
  • Report: civilian deaths in Iraq far exceed those of military and police
    Report: civilian deaths in Iraq far exceed those of military and police 01:44 PM EDT Jul 14 BAGHDAD (AP) - Violent deaths among Iraqi civilians far exceeded those of soldiers or police in the first six months of this year, according to figures obtained Thursday from separate Iraqi government ministries. Between Jan. 1 and June 30, 1,594 civilians were killed, according to the Ministry of Health. Civilians often bear the brunt of car-bombings and suicide attac...
  • Top Israeli official says barrier meant to ensure Jewish majority in Jerusalem
    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
    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
    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
    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...
  • Israel razes Palestinian homes
    Israel razes Palestinian homes by Tuesday 05 July 2005 3:29 PM GMT Several families have lost their homes in the demolition The Israeli occupation army, using bulldozers, has demolished up to 17 homes in the village of Bait Fureik east of Nablus city on the West Bank, leaving tens of families homeless. According to a report quoting local sources, troops also demolished a mosque and school in the area, housing some 450 inhabitants as well...
  • Palestinians under attack from settlers
    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
    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...
  • US 'admits' torturing prisoners
    US 'admits' torturing prisoners by Friday 24 June 2005 2:04 PM GMT A committee is preparing for hearings in May 2006 Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source says. The admission was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the 10-person panel, speaking on condit...
  • Watchdog: Israeli military probe of Palestinian civilian
    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
    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...
  • The US war with Iran has already begun
    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...
  • Israel to build 700 new settler homes
    Israel to build 700 new settler homes by Sunday 19 June 2005 1:41 PM GMT Illegal West Bank settlements continue to expand Israel has announced that it will seek tender offers within months for 700 new homes in the occupied West Bank, as furious Palestinians accused the government of trying to change the face of Jerusalem. A spokesman for Israel's housing ministry said on Sunday that by the end of the year the ministry would put out to te...
  • Israel to build sea barrier off Gaza
    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 ...
  • Palestinian militant groups step up threat to call off ceasefire
    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
    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...
  • Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed in book
    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...
  • War crimes court asked to investigate 7 suspects in Srebrenica execution video
    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...
  • Bosnian mother turns on TV to see son executed in Srebrenica massacre video
    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...
  • Comments about CBC state-run and controlled media
    William Z says: The government of Canada has about as much influence over CBC editiorial policy as I have. And since they are only picking up stuff from the wire services and reprinting it anyway, what difference does it make? ========================================================= This is factually incorrect. The CBC is a Government controlled and owned Crown Corporation, unless you are trying to say CBC is privately run and funded? In f...
  • Response to people who accuse Muslims of being against Free Speech regarding the MacLean's BCHRT Case
    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...
  • Rebuttal to anti-Islamists who say the Qur'an allows the killing of disbelievers.
    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."...
  • Media's Portrayal of "Islamists"
    According to dictionary.reference.com the word islamist means: An Islamic revivalist movement, often characterized by moral conservatism, literalism, and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life. The religious faith, principles, or cause of Islam. What is interesting is that instead the media chooses to portray or only show those Islamists who use violence, or associate it with some kind of global movement...

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