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October 28, 2010
For Immediate Release
BCCLA report criticizes Canada’s adoption of U.N. Security Council’s terrorist blacklist
The BC Civil Liberties Association is launching a report today at UBC’s law school on the UN’s …
Courtesy: The Globe and Mail
The Harper government ignored advice from its own civil servants when it ended funding to a church-based aid group last year, documents show.
Kairos, representing 11 churches and religious groups, had received …
October 27, 2010
The Ottawa Citizen
Bill C-49, the government’s new act to deter human smuggling, has two different targets: the smugglers and the people being smuggled. The bill proposes some reasonable measures to punish and deter …
Posted on 29 April, 2010 by Mathias Vermeulen
According to Europol’s 2010 EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report fewer than 300 acts of terrorism were registered in Europe last year and only one was an attack …
Courtesy: The Los Angeles Times
An Oct. 28 Times editorial hit the nail on the head by noting that the United Nations‘ newly released report, “The World’s Women,” makes a disturbing point: Violence against women remains …
Courtesy: The Globe and Mail
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Dear Dennis,
I’m writing to you because sometimes there are things you can’t say, but rather write …
Courtesy: WMC-TV
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) – Comments about seeing people on a plane who appear to be Muslim got National Public Radio analyst Juan Williams fired last week.
Some cannot help but think their appearance had something …
Courtesy: CNN.COM
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (CNN) — Oklahoma voters are considering an unusual question that will appear on their ballots this Tuesday: whether Islamic law can be used in considering cases in state court.
The question is …
Courtesy: CNN.COM
London, England (CNN) — Hit the road, Jack.
Last year’s most popular name for baby boys in England has been knocked off — by Mohammed.
That’s not immediately obvious from data put out this week by …
Courtesy: The Daily Mail
Tony Blair’s sister-in-law announced her conversion to Islam last weekend. Journalist Lauren Booth embraced the faith after what she describes as a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.
She is just one of a growing …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Major U.S. Charities, Foundations and Constitutional Rights Groups Urge Appeals Court to Require Knowledge of Terror Ties for Criminal Conviction of Material Support
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 27, 2010)
Late yesterday, 20 diverse U.S. organizations …
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 …
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 …
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For more than six decades the United States and Pakistan have had a complex relationship, one in which the goal of meeting …
