Huff Post Canada: By Josh D. Scheinhert – We must work to further foster a culture of justice and accountability. Inherent in that role for a state like Canada is to press allies, like the U.S. and Israel, that have not joined the court to do so, and remove one […]
Source: Daily Star Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam has been handed 90-year jail for his role in the murder and genocide of the independence-seeking people of the land who were fighting occupation Pakistani army in 1971. All the five charges, which include murder and torture of unarmed people, conspiracy, planning, […]
abc NEWS: Sheila Marikar. A 13-year-old says she got raped by four men, her country wants her to die: That’s the saga of Kainat Soomro, who’s been fighting for justice in Pakistan for four years. Since Soomro’s alleged rape, she and her relatives have lived in fear that a Pakistani tribunal will […]
Source: The Daily Star ( http://www.thedailystar.net ) Take Jamaat to task for mayhem Lack of security preparedness obvious Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Editorial We condemn in the strongest possible terms the deliberate act of vandalism in which some 200 vehicles across many districts including Dhaka were damaged or destroyed by cadres […]
Huff Post: Ken Wytsma. I think much the same can be said about justice. At least the conversation is happening. At least awareness is growing. I don’t have the time or energy to weed out everyone else’s mixed motives, let alone my own. I’m simply glad that people who otherwise […]
Epigraph: “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” […]
RT: “It is time our leaders reformed the system so that it works in the interests of the whole of humanity rather than a global elite,” the report said. The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide […]
Source: LUBP Author: Dr. Zulfiqar Ali CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry continued harassment and abusing of NAB officials led to Kamran Faisal’s suicide. We demand thatCJ Chaudhry be prosecuted for causing unbearable stress to Kamran Faisal leading to his suicide. Right-wing pro-establishment media too contributed to Kamran Faisa’s death. Let me explain. […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Bangladesh will retain Islam as the state religion in amendments the government is proposing to its constitution, a government minister said yesterday, […]
wnd.com and Youtube: While Muslims engaged in violent protests worldwide over caricatures of Muhammad have insisted any image of their prophet is considered blasphemous, a prominent frieze in the U.S. […]
Daily Times: Ayesha Asghar. The survivor is a Bheel, not just Hindu but also a scheduled caste one. The rape of children from scheduled castes is, unfortunately, very common in Sindh The survivor is a student of Grade I, in the district of Umerkot in Sindh. She is much younger […]
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in intensive care From ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital after suffering “a series of setbacks,” including a stubborn fever, his spokesman said. In a brief email Wednesday, Jim McGrath, Bush’s […]
Islamic Law, Adoptions, and Kafalah by Faisal Kutty / November 8th, 2012 There hasn’t been a concerted push to open doors for Muslim orphans because the expectation would be that those efforts would fall flat… – Chuck Johnson, chief executive, National Council for Adoption Conventional wisdom — among both Muslims and non-Muslims — […]