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Serving Two Masters: Shariah Law and the Secular State by Stanley Fish
October 27, 2010 – 10:03 am | No Comment

Courtesy: The New York Times
A few weeks ago, the Cardozo School of Law mounted a conference marking the 20th anniversary of Employment Division v. Smith (1990), a case in which the Supreme Court asked what …

Tea Party leader: Defeat Ellison because he’s Muslim By Justin Elliott
October 27, 2010 – 10:01 am | No Comment

Courtesy: Salon
Founder of Tea Party Nation wants to defeat Keith Ellison because, he suggests, Muslims do not belong in Congress
Via TPM via the Maddow blog: The leader of one of the three biggest Tea Party …

Al Qa’eda and Pakistan: Current Role and Future Considerations by Haider Ali Hussein Mullick
October 27, 2010 – 9:57 am | No Comment

Excerpt
Report by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
To see full report click here.
For more than six decades the United States and Pakistan have had a complex relationship, one in which the goal of meeting …

Farewell Mon Amour: Prospects on Democracy’s Electoral Defeat by Henry A. Giroux
October 27, 2010 – 9:52 am | No Comment

Courtesy: Truthout
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of …

Albanian Muslims Saved Jews in WW11 by CNN.com
October 27, 2010 – 9:48 am | No Comment

Albanian Muslims Saved Jews in WW11 by CNN.com

If You Knew Them, You Would Help Them by Arsalan Shirazi
October 27, 2010 – 9:45 am | No Comment

October 24, 2010
Courtesy: Obiter Dicta
Let’s flashback to about a month ago. I’m sitting in an airport in Lahore, Pakistan, after spending 7 hours on a flight from Beijing, 12 hours in an airport the size …

Cyber-service ‘a new frontier’: Kingston judge allows litigant to serve through Facebook by By Michael McKiernan
October 26, 2010 – 11:26 am | No Comment

The Law Times, October 25, 2010
An Ontario judge has urged lawyers to be creative with electronic methods of service after allowing a litigant to do it using Facebook in a family law case.

‘In the world …

Conferences & Symposia: Shari’ah, the Constitution and American Muslims
October 26, 2010 – 11:22 am | No Comment

Friday, November 5th, 2010
Confronting Islam:
Shari’ah, the Constitution and American Muslims
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
Fall Symposium
University of Maryland School of Law
500 W. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Friday, November 5th, 2010
8:30 a.m. …

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth converts to Islam after a ‘holy experience’ in Iran by
October 26, 2010 – 11:20 am | No Comment

The Daily Mail, October 24, 2010
Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.
Broadcaster and journalist Lauren Booth, 43 – Cherie Blair’s half-sister – said she now wears a hijab …

Iraq war logs reveal 15,000 previously unlisted civilian deaths by David Leigh
October 26, 2010 – 11:16 am | No Comment

Leaked Pentagon files contain records of more than 100,000 fatalities including 66,000 civilians
The Guardian, October 22, 2010
Leaked Pentagon files obtained by the Guardian contain details of more than 100,000 people killed in Iraq following the …

Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear by Bob Smietana
October 26, 2010 – 11:11 am | Comments Off

The Tennessean, October 24, 2010
First of Two Parts
Steven Emerson has 3,390,000 reasons to fear Muslims.
That’s how many dollars Emerson’s for-profit company — Washington-based SAE Productions — collected in 2008 for researching alleged ties between American …

Federal human-rights group trying to save face by Graeme Hamilton
October 26, 2010 – 11:05 am | Comments Off

 National Post · Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010

Analysis
MONTREAL — After promising to clean up spending practices at Rights and Democracy, directors of the federally funded human-rights centre have overseen a tripling of the amount paid to …

State Bar Plan To Increase Diversity Draws Supporters and Detractors By Charles Toutant
October 26, 2010 – 10:55 am | No Comment

New Jersey Law Journal
October 25, 2010
The State Bar Association’s plan to boost diversity by expanding its nominating committee and trustee board is engendering strong views by county bars on both sides — as well as …

No right to counsel during interrogation: top court by Kirk Makin
October 16, 2010 – 2:36 pm | No Comment

Courtesy: The Globe and Mail
Police are winning the unceasing war over the rights of suspected criminals on a major battleground – the Supreme Court of Canada.
In a ruling full of friction between a bare majority …