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Danish Cartoons: free speech or hate speech?
February 24, 2006 – 4:52 pm | No Comment
Danish Cartoons: free speech or hate speech?

Editor’s note: An abridged version of this article appeared in the Feb. 24 2006 edition of Lawyers Weekly.
By Faisal Kutty
“I don’t know of anything more important than freedom of expression,” said former Supreme Court Justice …

In praise of Marian Boyd’s report: Ontario report affirms right to use Islamic principles in arbitration
January 30, 2005 – 4:56 pm | No Comment
In praise of Marian Boyd’s report: Ontario report affirms right to use Islamic principles in arbitration

By Faisal Kutty
“The Arbitration Act should continue to allow disputes to be arbitrated using religious law ,” concluded Ontario’s former Ontario Attorney General Marion Boyd in her 150-page report (www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca)
Boyd was asked by the Ontario …

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
October 21, 2001 – 4:43 pm | One Comment
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

By Kutty, Faisal – My stomach churned in disgust as I watched people jumping out of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as it crumbled to the ground on that Tuesday morning etched …

Same dictator (Moammar Gadhafi), different clothes
October 17, 1999 – 4:52 pm | 2 Comments
Same dictator (Moammar Gadhafi), different clothes

By Faisal Kutty – Some take longer than others do, but all boys eventually become men. The colourful colonel running Libya may be no different. Indeed, Moammar Gadhafi may be showing signs that he is …

Nuclear Armageddon in the making?
June 20, 1999 – 4:48 pm | No Comment
Nuclear Armageddon in the making?

By Faisal Kutty – Political instability. Nuclear and conventional missile brinkmanship. And now intense border battles. Is this a recipe for a nuclear disaster? Alarm bells about a possible nuclear conflagration are ringing a lot …

Criminals belong behind bars, not at the peace table
June 6, 1999 – 4:47 pm | No Comment
Criminals belong behind bars, not at the peace table

By Faisal Kutty — More than 1.5 million men, women and children displaced. Four thousand executed. Numerous people tortured and raped. Hundreds of residential areas torched. Dozens of mosques, churches, hospitals and schools destroyed. These …