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Archive for January, 2009
By IslamOnline.net & Newspapers
CAIRO — In the first blow to the new US administration, a military judge at Guantanamo Bay rejected President Barack Obama’s order to suspend trials at the detention camp.
“Over the past several weeks, unacceptable and terrible situations have taken place against the civilian people and against particularly the United Nations compounds, where many civilians were sheltered,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Dearborn City Councilman George Darany cosponsored the resolution.
Continue reading ‘Dearborn City Council passes Gaza resolution’
Before storming out, Erdogan told Shimon Peres, the Israeli president: “You are killing people.”
Peres told Erdogan during the heated panel discussion that he would have acted in the same manner if rockets had been falling on Istanbul.
Moderator David Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist, then told Erdogan that he had “only a minute” to respond to a lengthy monologue by Peres.
A fragile ceasefire may have silenced the thundering of Israel’s war machine in Gaza, but its 22-day onslaught has dealt a heavy blow to imam Hassen Chalghoumi’s longtime efforts to build bridges with French Jews.
A galaxy of British actors and directors threatened to boycott the BBC if the world’s biggest broadcaster did not reverse its decision not to air an aid appeal for the homeless population of the bombed-out Gaza Strip.
Depleted uranium is added to munitions because its density allows them to penetrate armour more easily.
It is thought that the dust left at blast sites after the weapons have hit could pose a health risk, but a definitive link has not yet been proven.
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A galaxy of Muslim scholars thinkers, political activists and academics have penned an open letter to US President Barack Obama urging him to begin his reign by remedying injustices inflicted on Arabs and Muslims for peace to prevail and America to restore its image.
Can you feel the change in the air? We can.
Last Thursday, at the State Department, President Obama introduced former Sen. George Mitchell as his Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, and stated:
“Our hearts go out to Palestinian civilians who are in need of immediate food, clean water, and basic medical care, and who’ve faced suffocating poverty for far too long. Now we must extend a hand of opportunity to those who seek peace. As part of a lasting cease-fire, Gaza’s border crossings should be open to allow the flow of aid and commerce.”
Continue reading ‘President Obama Calls for Lifting Gaza Siege; Rep. Olver for Gaza Aid’
A team of Arab doctors who rushed to the rescue of thousands of civilians injured during Israel’s 22-day onslaught against the sealed off Gaza Strip are coming back with heart-breaking stories of horror and never-seen-before injuries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRs2v–de5s
A heavy police presence surrounded the rally, called by the National Collective for a Just and Durable Peace to pressure France’s government.
One nine-year-old boy said his father had been shot dead in front of him despite surrendering to Israeli soldiers with his hands in the air.
Another youngster described witnessing the deaths of his mother, three brothers and uncle after the house they were in was shelled.
Continue reading ‘Israel accused of executing parents in front of children in Gaza’
January 21, 2009, 7:05 p.m.
By Casey Hynes
A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements.
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
| Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama‘s inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists.
Continue reading ‘Obama prayer service speaker runs Islamic group’
