Muslim Advocates welcomes the Obama administration’s announcement rescinding its policy of targeting travelers from 14 primarily Muslim countries for mandatory enhanced screening. Since this misguided policy was implemented in January, Muslim Advocates had been …

Community Advisory:
New Airport Security Measures Target Muslim Travelers
President Obama stated yesterday that “we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values …

By The Economist | LONDON
AMERICA has firmed up its response to the security failures that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a Detroit-bound flight with an explosive device in Amsterdam on Christmas …

By MARIA CHENG
LONDON – Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking …

By Reem Bahdi
Once again, we must question whether Canadian officials facilitated the overseas detention and torture of Arab Muslim men.
Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen, was arrested in Sudan in 2003 while visiting his ailing mother. …

By Joanna Smith, Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA – There is nothing to stop the federal government from bringing a Canadian man stranded in Sudan home tomorrow if they wanted to, his lawyers argued in Federal Court yesterday.
“We …

By PAUL KORING
May 7, 2009
Canada is free to bring Abousfian Abdelrazik home and doesn’t need to ask for permission, the UN official overseeing the blacklist of alleged al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects said yesterday.
“Whether it is …

From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
April 29, 2009 at 2:00 AM EDT
His name is Abousfian Abdelrazik, but it could as easily be Joseph Smith, a Canadian Everyman. He is a citizen denied the right to return …

Bring Abousfian Abdelrazik Home!
Canadian Detained and Tortured with Canadian Complicity Still Stranded
in Sudan
Join the Toronto “Camp Abdelrazik,” a day-long vigil at the offices of
Passport Canada
74 Victoria Street (just north of Adelaide, south of Queen)
Monday, May …

Sean Hilhorst, University of London
Abstract
There are barriers of perception between Sudanese Muslims for whom the sharia is a source of authority and identity and others who see it as an oppressive means of dominating Sudan’s …

Jessica Murphy
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL-A federal government document involving the case of a Canadian man trapped in Sudan states Canada would violate its international obligations by allowing him to return home – an argument his lawyers …

Whatever it is about Abousfian Abdelrazik that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government seems to want to sweep under the table, it is past time that Parliament took a hard, close look at the case.
Abdelrazik is …

By Kris Kotarski, For The Calgary Herald
The government of Canada is afraid that when he returns home, Abousfian Abdelrazik will talk.
That is the only possible reason why a Canadian citizen who has been publicly cleared …

PAUL KORING
Globe and Mail Update
April 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — The Conservative government reversed itself today and denied an emergency passport to Abousfian Abdelrazik, preventing the Canadian citizen – blacklisted as a terrorist …