By Carol Driver
Last updated at 11:06 AM on 26th February 2010
School bus drivers have been accused of racism after failing to stop for pupils wearing Muslim hijabs.
Archive for February, 2010
The United Nations and European Union have condemned a call from Libya’s leader for Muslims to carry out jihad against Switzerland over a recent vote to ban the construction of minarets in the European country.
Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the UN director-general in Geneva, said the call by Muammar Gaddafi on Friday was “inadmissible”.
A Palestinian youth is detained by Israeli soldiers during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/Associated Press)
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Turks have been urged by their prime minister to show the courage to face their problems as the number of military officers charged and jailed for allegedly plotting a 2003 coup against the government rises to 33.
Authorities are expected to question more officers on Saturday in the so-called Operation Sledgehammer plot against Turkey’s Justice and Development (AK) party government.
By Dilshad D. Ali, IOL Correspondent
WASHINGTON – As interested students race to beat the fast approaching enrolment deadline, Muslims are turning their sights to the Zaytuna College in California to see if America’s first ever Muslim college will live up to the high expectations.
Clashes have erupted in the West Bank city of Hebron where Palestinian protesters gathered to mark the sixteenth anniversary of a mosque attack in which 29 people were killed.
Israeli police fired tear gas at stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in the centre of the city on Thursday as school children began heading home for the day.
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a 7,000-pound truck bomb, constructed of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel and packed into 13 plastic barrels, ripped through the heart of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion wrecked much of downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care center. Another 500 were injured. Although many Americans initially suspected an attack by Middle Eastern radicals, it quickly became clear that the mass murder had actually been carried out by domestic, right-wing terrorists.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Rashad Hussain’s appointment as the Obama administration’s envoy to the Organization of Islamic Countries, part of the broader strategy of outreach to the Muslim world, was as welcome as it was overdue. Hussain, a lawyer who had been working in the White House counsel’s office and also working with the NSC on Muslim engagement, seemed an excellent pick. The announcement in Doha showed a renewed sense of urgency about delivering on the promise of Obama’s Cairo speech to the Muslim world. It is good to see a Muslim appointed to such a position. After the failed Christmas bombing most would agree that the task of combatting violent extremism is as urgent a national security priority as ever.
By Eric S. Margolis
Internally displaced women and children walk in the Chota Lahore camp in Pakistan’s Swabi district 75 miles northwest of Islamabad, May 20, 2009. Some 1.5 million Pakistanis fled the military onslaught on the country’s Northwest Frontier Province (AFP photo/Pedro Ugarte).
THE U.S. keeps kicking hornets’ nests around the globe and wondering why it continues getting stung.
The Obama administration has cleared two Bush-era lawyers who authorized coercive interrogation techniques of terror suspects, outraging rights groups.”This decision should not be viewed as an endorsement of the legal work performed by the pair,” Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis wrote in an internal Justice Department review cited by The New York Daily on Saturday, February 20.
British pop singer Elton John has provoked Christian outrage worldwide over remarks that Jesus Christ was homosexual.“Jesus was certainly compassionate, but to say he was ‘super-intelligent’ is to compare the son of God to a successful game-show contestant,” Bill Donohue, president of The Catholic League, the largest US Catholic rights group, said in a statement cited by Australia’s Sky News on Saturday, February 20.
Local Muslims in the US Midwest state of Missouri have organized a benefit dinner to contribute to feeding the hungry in the quake-hit Haiti.
“We found out from our friends who are working in Haiti right now that the biggest problem is hunger,” Ahmad Sheikh, an area physician and co-organizer of the benefit dinner, told the Southeast Missourian on Monday, February 22.
Dozens of Egyptian women and human rights activists have staged a protest in Cairo against a recent decision that bars women from holding judicial positions.
Thursday’s protest came after the Council of State’s association voted on Monday by an overwhelming majority against the appointment of women as judges in the council, an influential court which advises Egypt’s government.
Saudi Arabia could soon allow women lawyers to appear in court to argue cases for the first time.
Mohammed al-Issa, the justice minister, said the government is drafting a new law to permit female lawyers to argue family-related cases, including divorce and child custody.
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Israel is being accused of effectively stealing more than $2.5bn in taxes from Palestinian workers.
By Dina Rabie, IOL Staff
Continue reading ‘Texas Attack…US Double-standard Terrorism’
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is alleged to have given the green light for last month’s assassination of a senior Hamas figure, according to a British newspaper.
The Sunday Times, citing “sources with knowledge of Mossad”, reported on Sunday thatNetanyahu visited the Israeli intelligence headquarters in early January and, after being brief, authorised the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
By AGENCIES
Published: Feb 20, 2010 12:57 PM Updated: Feb 20, 2010 1:13 PM
MEKNES, Morocco: The death toll after the collapse of a minaret in a historic mosque has gone up to 40 in the central Moroccan city of Meknes, a local official said on Saturday. Continue reading ‘Morocco minaret death toll now 40′
