Source: Stratfor By George Friedman The Obama administration published a series of memoranda on torture issued under the Bush administration. The memoranda, most of which dated from the period after 9/11, authorized measures including depriving prisoners of solid food, having them stand shackled and in uncomfortable positions, leaving them in […]
The Washington Post: by Nick Kirkpatrick — Esther Tokpah, an 11-year-old orphan in Monrovia, Liberia, who lost both parents to Ebola. A new report released on Monday by UNICEF declares 2014 a “devastating” year for children. “Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such unspeakable brutality,” UNICEF Executive Director Anthony […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret. And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” […]
http://nymag.com/: In the recent culture-war flare-ups over Islam, the side arguing that the religion is inherently dangerous and violent has tended to be overrepresented in the media, pulling together an unlikely coalition of right-wingers and otherwise-liberal pundits like Bill Maher, as well as New Atheists such as Sam Harris and […]
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, Jazakallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
Religious leaders have been at the forefront of the fight to end torture, and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 500-page summary on the CIA’s treatment of terrorism suspects seems to have […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/12/10/newday-acosta-dnt-cia-torture-report.cnn Washington (CNN) — Here’s a look at some of the techniques the CIA used to interrogate detainees that were included in a Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday. 1. […]
theguardian: by Trevor Timm — It wasn’t that bad, we’ve been told, over and over again, for more than a decade. “We only waterboarded three people” goes the line American officials have been force-feeding the world for years. “We tortured some folks,” Barack Obama admitted recently, still downplaying war crimes […]
Ottawa Citizen: by Chris Cobb — Ottawa Imam Imtiaz Ahmed, leader of Stop the CrISIS, an initiative to counter the radicalization of Canada’s Muslim youth, says new converts — like former University of Ottawa student John Maguire — appear particularly vulnerable. Canadian Muslims, especially students, shouldn’t hesitate to report anyone […]
Summary Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon It is exasperating to listen to American officials pontificate about events in the Middle East and offer what sounds like reasonable proposals to resolve the area’s problems, when those same officials and the entire political power structure they represent refuse to acknowledge […]
The US Senate Intelligence Committee has published its highly anticipated and divisive report into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme employed after the September 11 attacks. Only the executive summary of the 6,700-page classified report has been published, including its 20 findings. The 20 conclusions are presented below, including particularly […]
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Another police killing of an unarmed man of color. Another grand jury deciding not to indict: Not for murder. Not for manslaughter. Not for assault. Not even for reckless endangerment. We live in a land of impunity. At least, for those in power. This […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/12/09/ath-feinstein-senate-floor-cia-torture-report.cnn Washington (CNN) — The CIA’s harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn’t work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no “ticking time bomb” information that […]
By Markus Feldenkirchen and Holger Stark SPIEGEL.DE On the evening after the city burned, a man in a black leather jacket and white clerical collar is standing on the streets […]
Source: NY Times: The long-delayed report, which took five years to produce and is based on more than six million internal agency documents, is a sweeping indictment of the C.I.A.’s operation and oversight of a program carried out by agency officials and contractors in secret prisons around the world in […]
Source: Daily Times: One cannot resist speculating whether the US-Saudi oil alliance is intentional or a convenience of interests. If it is explicit, then clearly this alliance is trying to instill an economic collapse upon Moscow and Tehran, almost similar to what the US and Saudis did to the leaders […]
Disgruntled customer throws snake at Tim Hortons employee who refuses to dice his onions Postmedia News | December 8, 2014 2:40 PM ET More from Postmedia News Charles Hamilton / Postmedia NewsAfter a dispute over diced onions on a breakfast sandwich, two men threw a garter snake over a counter towards […]
RNS: PRESS RELEASE: In a concise but wide-ranging interview, Brian Grim, president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, discusses the adverse impact for women, atheists and society in general when religious freedom is denied. watch: Rather than religious freedom being in contradiction with other basic human rights, Grim describes how they all advance or […]
Abraham is the father of all three of these monotheistic faiths, and he is renowned for his hospitality. Christians, Jews and Muslims can all counter extremism by making hospitality a central part of their religious practices. As people eat, worship and work together, they discover that strangers really are not so […]
Source: ajc.com I have been reading the news about the city of Kennesaw rejecting the application to lease a worship space for Muslims in a local strip mall (“Behind Kennesaw’s rejection of a storefront mosque,” Metro, Dec. 4). I am not a member of that particular congregation, but as a fellow […]