Articles tagged with: United States
By Aurohita Mojumdar
Publisher: Eurasianet.org
The need to strike a new balance in Afghanistan’s still nascent democratic system seems to be one of the emerging themes of the presidential campaign.
The writer asserts …
By Edward Alden
Published: April 27, 2009
TheTyee.ca
After years of frustration dealing with the George W. Bush administration over the tightening of the border, Canadian officials were hoping for better under President Barack Obama. It does not …
From CBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2009 | 4:30 PM ET
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is required to press the United States for the return of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay to “comply …
From The Canadian Press
April 22, 2009
Washington — A diplomatic skirmish broke out yesterday over suggestions by Janet Napolitano, the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, that terrorists have routinely entered the United States through Canada, including the …
Globe and Mail Editorial
HOMELAND SECURITY – The little-known northern border
April 22, 2009
Janet Napolitano, the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, surely did not intend to ignite controversy by suggesting that the perpetrators of the Sept. 11, 2001 …
David Smock and Qamar-ul Huda
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Muslims in general and Muslim leaders particularly have often been severely criticized for not more energetically condemning the violent acts of Muslim extremists.
Violent extremists are on one …
GENEVA – At a gathering of experts in international humanitarian law (IHL) in Geneva last week, much of the focus was on countries and societies where Muslims form a majority of the population. There was …
By Reba Khan
Publisher: Alt Muslim
As a Muslim-American, the author discusses how her Muslim parents immigrated to the United States and found commonality …
By Tariq Ramadan
Thursday 2 April 2009
In a recent article I discussed the critical role the European Union must play now that Barack Obama has assumed power in the United States. In order to make international …
By MARJORIE COHN
A Spanish court has initiated criminal proceedings against six former officials of the Bush administration. John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, William Haynes and Douglas Feith may face charges in Spain …
Christi Parsons
Laura King
LOS ANGELES TIMES
ANKARA, Turkey – When President Barack Obama declared yesterday that the United States “is not, and will never be, at war with Islam,” he was talking to Turkey’s parliament. But his …
By Faisal Kutty – My first trip out of Canada was to my homeland of India in the early 1980s. Having left the country when I was barely six years old, I was not prepared …
By Faisal Kutty – One thing in which I always had confidence was average American’s innate sense of fairness. Of course this always gets influenced, manipulated and distorted by propaganda from the government, media and …
By Faisal Kutty – First it was King Hussein of Jordan. Next went the emir of Bahrain, Sheik Isa bin Salman Al-Khalifa. More recently was the death of King Hassan of Morocco. With this trend …
