By Danstan Asif Kaunda, IOL Correspondent
By Andrew Wander
Governments around the world, including those of Arab and European states, have colluded in the secret detention of terrorism suspects, UN investigators have reported.
An extensive report, released on Wednesday, paints a disturbing picture of a systematic secret detention programme involving many countries.
Bill Gates, the co-founder of computing giant Microsoft, has pledged to donate $10bn over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world’s poorest countries.
Mayor’s address focuses on crime, culture, green energy
This story appeared in the Antelope Valley Press
Thursday, January 28, 2010.
By GERRY PRICE
Valley Press City Editor/Assignments
LANCASTER – Mayor R. Parris sees his city as strongly Christian, and he’s proud of that.
“We’re growing a Christian community, and don’t let anybody shy away from that,” he told an audience of 160 people, mainly pastors and their
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1/28/2010, By: Staff, IslamiCity* -
Arab and other Muslim nations are making significant contributions in providing much needed assistance to support the humanitarian relief work being undertaken in Haiti. In the Western press little coverage is given to these efforts.
Continue reading ‘Arab & Muslim Nations unite for Haiti Relief’
Report blames ‘Islamophobic, negative and unwarranted portrayals of Muslim London’ for increase in attacks in the capital
Vikram Dodd guardian.co.uk,
Thursday 28 January 2010
A rise in the number of hate crimes against Muslims in London is being encouraged by mainstream politicians and sections of the media, a study written by a former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officer, published yesterday, says.
Continue reading ‘UK Politicians, Media Fuel Anti-Muslim Hatred’
The Haitian earthquake has brought together different religious communities in South Florida, including some unexpected pairings.
BY JAWEED KALEEM
jkaleem@MiamiHerald.com
Continue reading ‘Faiths unite in South Florida to help Haiti’
(Washington, D.C., 1/27/10) — The Muslim Public Affairs Council today applauded 54 members of Congress who signed a letter to President Obama asking his Administration to lift the blockade on Gaza.
SEE: “Ellison, McCollum and Oberstar Urge Obama to Lift Gaza Blockade” (Minnesota Independent)
Led by Congressmen Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Jim McDermott (D-WA), the letter to the President reads in part, “The unabated suffering of Gazan civilians highlights the urgency of reaching a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and we ask you to press for immediate relief for the citizens of Gaza as an urgent component of your broader Middle East peace efforts.”
“Ending the situation in Gaza is absolutely necessary to achieving a sustainable Mideast peace,” Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati. “We recognize and applaud these elected officials for seeking to end the ongoing humanitarian crisis. We must continue to support our elected officials who uphold the human rights of the Palestinian people and hold those officials accountable who do not uphold those rights.”
MPAC today also released a white paper “One Year After ‘Operation Cast Lead’: No Change, No Accountability” examining the devastation caused by Israel’s 22-day military assault code-named Operation Cast Lead. In the year that has passed, the people of Gaza have remained under a suffocating economic siege, their movement has been further restricted, virtually no re-building has taken place, and their humanitarian crisis has further expanded. The impediment of humanitarian aid by both Egypt and Israel is only aggravating the dire conditions under which people are living.
REQUESTED ACTIONS:
Contact and thank these 54 members of Congress for their leadership.
Below is a list of the 54 Congressional signatories and their phone numbers.
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By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
January 26, 2010
The most challenging task for Jews in this upcoming decade is to create a joint and coordinated effort to improve relations with Muslims, New York Orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier said earlier this month.
Continue reading ‘U.S. rabbi strives for improved relations with Muslims’
January 8, 2010
On January 8, villagers from the Palestinian village of An Nabi Saleh (population approx 500), located in the north of the Ramallah district, held its third demonstration in three weeks against creeping settlement expansion and land confiscation by the illegal Israeli settlement of Hallamish (also known as Neve Tzuf). According to the residents of the village, since the settlement was established illegally on land belonging to An Nabi Saleh in 1977, there have been repeated attempts to expand the settlement. In 2009, the village successfully challenged, in the Israeli courts, the expansion of the settlement fence to land immediately alongside settler highway 465. In the past month, however, illegal settlers residing in Hallamish colony have attempted to re-annex the land alongside the highway, which now divides An Nabi Saleh’s land. In this period, the settlers have proceeded to build a shelter structure for the purpose of a memorial, on the land, which includes a fresh water spring used by An Nabi Saleh farmers and shepherds.
Fifty members of Congress have sent US President Barack Obama a letter urging him to work for lifting the years-long Israeli blockade on Gaza Strip and the consequent enormous suffering of its nearly 1.5 million people.
Americans Won’t Regain Security At Home While Innocents Are Being Killed In Our Name
By RABIA CHAUDRY
January 24, 2010
My 12-year-old daughter is a frequent flier. Almost every month she catches a flight from Bradley International Airport to Baltimore to see her father. Because she is a minor, I am allowed to escort her to the gate. My anxiety levels have been steadily increasing each time she flies.
Continue reading ‘WHY ARE THEY MAD AT US? ‘We Are Part Of The Terror’’
Monday, 25 January 2010
More than 150,000 people have been confirmed dead in the Port-au-Prince area alone following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the country’s communications minister says.
The death toll given by Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue on Sunday comes amid an exodus of residents from the shattered capital Port-au-Prince.
A man who once worked with the FBI, allegedly feeding the agency information on local mosques and Muslim communities throughout the county, has filed a $10 million civil liberties lawsuit against the federal agency.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) — Tucked away on a corner of the Haitian capital’s dusty, congested
Delmas Road, a modest white building bears a curious sign, painstakingly stenciled in green Western and
Arabic script.
“Mosquee Al-Fatiha,” it reads. “Communaute Musulmane d’Haiti.”
An attendant splashing water on the ground greets a visitor who approaches the gate. “As-salaam aleikum
[peace be upon you],” he says, breaking into a smile.
“Welcome to the mosque.”
Continue reading ‘Mohammed’s religion finds a place in Haiti’
