Vatican calls on Muslim leaders to denouce IS brutality
ET: VATICAN CITY / BAGHDAD: The Vatican on Tuesday called for Muslim leaders to denounce the brutality of Islamic State (IS) militants who have swept across Iraq, saying there was no […]
UN Names Three-Member Panel to Probe Gaza Conflict War Crimes
NDTV: United Nations: The UN has named three experts as members of an independent inquiry commission that will probe possible human rights violations and war crimes committed, particularly in the […]
The pattern of widespread and systematic human rights violations in Rakhine State may constitute crimes against humanity
UNCHR: GENEVA (30 May 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, today calls on the Government and people of Myanmar […]
Netanyahu asks U.S. lawmakers to help fend off war crimes charges
Haretz.com: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked United States legislators to assist Israel in fending off charges that Israel committed war crimes during its month-long operation in Gaza, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. “The prime minister asked us to work together to ensure that this strategy of going […]
New British Foreign Minister: There should be a full UN investigation into Gaza
Source: Bournemouth Echo BOURNEMOUTH EAST MP Tobias Ellwood is to visit Gaza soon in his role as a new foreign office minister. Mr Ellwood was appointed by David Cameron in […]
China says Islamist militants kill pro-Beijing imam in Xinjiang
Three suspected Islamist militants armed with knives and axes killed the imam of China’s biggest mosque in the western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, the authorities said, days after a knife-wielding gang attacked state buildings in the same region. MORE…
Professor Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen to be a "Racist Apartheid State" with U.S. Support
democracynow.org: As the Palestinian death toll tops 1,000 in Gaza, we are joined from Haifa by Israeli professor and historian Ilan Pappé. “I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy,” Pappé says. “It still hopes that the […]
Professor Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen to be a “Racist Apartheid State” with U.S. Support
democracynow.org: As the Palestinian death toll tops 1,000 in Gaza, we are joined from Haifa by Israeli professor and historian Ilan Pappé. “I think Israel in 2014 made a decision that it prefers to be a racist apartheid state and not a democracy,” Pappé says. “It still hopes that the […]
Why the British government stands with Israel no matter how large the solidarity with Gaza protests
Guardian: Pro-Israel lobby group bankrolling Tories, film claims 50% of MPs in the shadow cabinet are Conservative Friends of Israel members, according to Channel 4’s Dispatches Channel 4’s film alleges […]
It Turns Out Hamas Didn’t Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens After All
NY Mag: When the bodies of three Israeli teenagers, kidnapped in the West Bank, were found late last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mince words. “Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay,” he said, initiating a campaign that eventually escalated into the present conflict in the region. […]
Human Rights Council establishes Independent, International Commission of Inquiry for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UNCHR: 23 July 2014 The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its Special Session on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, after adopting a […]
Israel maybe guilty of war crimes – UN Human Rights Chief
Russia Today: Israel maybe committing war crimes in Gaza, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says. Speaking in Geneva, Navi Pillay said house demolitions and the killing of children […]
Israel: America’s Frankenstein monster
Salon.com: With Israeli tanks rolling into the Gaza Strip and Hamas fighters firing dozens of rockets into Israel every day, the two sides in the endless Middle East standoff appear to be replaying scenes from a recurring nightmare, with real-world tragic effects. I don’t mean to suggest that the conflict […]
Thousands mark Srebrenica massacre anniversary in Bosnia
Daily Times: SREBRENICA: Several thousand people gathered Friday in Srebrenica for the 19th anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim males by ethnic Serbs forces, Europe’s worst atrocity since […]
Israeli military steps up Gaza Strip airstrikes on second day of offensive
Foxnews.com: The Israeli military said early Wednesday that it had struck dozens of sites linked to the Islamic militant group Hamas on the second day of an offensive aimed at stopping rocket attacks aimed at key cities across Israel. The army said it attacked more than 160 sites in Gaza […]
170 Palestinians injured in East Jerusalem clashes
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Over 170 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday following the kidnapping and killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian from the Shufat neighborhood, medics said.Red Crescent medics said 170 Palestinians were injured in the clashes, including three with live bullets.At least […]
Caliphate of the Damned
Lutf blogs: As Muslims around the world start the month of Ramadan, ISIS, a group of Salafist militants have announced the re-establishment of Khilafah, the Islamic form of government as idealized by the orthodox Muslims. One Abu Bakr Baghdadi has been chosen as the Khalifa (Caliph) who is in the process […]
How can we stop honour killings?
Aljazeera: Disturbing cases of extreme violence against women from around the world have come to the fore in the past few weeks. Farzana Parveen’s murder in Pakistan highlighted the country’s dismal record of women killed in so-called honour killings. According to the Pakistani Human Rights Commission, 869 women were murdered in 2013 in […]
Extremism Is a Concept Alien to Islam–And to Human Decency
Like hundreds of other Ahmadi Muslims, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was murdered only for his faith. Combined, education and compassion can conquer such extremism. Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was the type of friend every American would proudly brag about. He was a loyal U.S. citizen. He was only 50, a […]
Nigeria’s Islamists staging bolder, deadlier comeback
Daily Times: After a crackdown pushed them out of Nigeria’s northern cities, Islamist militant group Boko Haram have regrouped, rearmed and are staging a bold comeback that has already allowed them to seize control over parts of the northeast. Using porous borders with Chad, Niger and Cameroon in the desolate […]