By SARA FLOUNDERS, International Action Center, New York THE 86-year sentence of Dr Aafia Siddiqui is an outrage and a shameful act. This is why I shouted out in court, "Shame! Shame! Shame on this court!" as the judge declared his sentence. It is U.S. act of insult, intended to send a message of domination. The [...]
Did Judge Berman Make A Mistake - Will Us Attorney General Call For A Mis-Trial? Dear Mr Holder, I am a journalist and film-maker who has been investigating the rather intriguing case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui since her disappearance with her three children in 2003. Can you please tell me why a Pakistani citizen, who [...]
By YVONNE RIDLEY THERE are literally millions of people across the world who are now involved in the intriguing case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and they fall in to several categories. The first is a huge army of ordinary people of faith and no faith who represent many different nationalities and their aim is to [...]
By Yousef Drummond Two significant world-views come to mind when interpreting the word “introspection”: one world-view is, according to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, scientific at face-value – that is, objectively sound and rational; the word “introspection” is defined rationally as “…the self-observation of inner-thoughts, desires and sensations”, leading to “self-reflection”. The other world-view is, by [...]
By MARY HICKCOX THE way in which we view education has a lot to do with our past; how we grew up, societal influences, and the way we were schooled ourselves. It is the legacy that we pass on to our children. Tragically, the current way our education system is engineered, it appears our children [...]
In his book titled in the line of fire, former Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf makes the following boast: "We have captured 689 ["Muslim terrorists"] and handed over 369 to the United States. Various Pakistani individuals have earned bounties totaling millions of dollars. Those who habitually accuse us of "not doing enough" in the war on terror should simply [...]
By El-Hajj Mauri Salakhan Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national, came to the United States as an 18 year old and began her freshman year at the University of Houston (Texas). Aafia later matriculated to Boston’s MIT, and eventually acquired a PhD. at Brandeis University. She was known and respected for her academic excellence, charitable [...]
DENIS RANCOURT ESPECIALLY left and liberal professionals and service intellectuals but also right-wing members of the intelligentsia vehemently attack and ridicule “conspiracy theories” such as the present 911 Truth movement. Why? It’s as though power did not covertly orchestrate its predation of us? Is that not the modus operandi of power? Is it so difficult [...]
By Imam Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid THE political right-wing, Tea Party based or influenced media has taken up the effort to build a mosque and Islamic community center near NYC’s ground zero, as its latest cause célèbre. In so doing they have been using the same tactics successfully employed during the “Stop the Madrassa” campaign to [...]
TORONTO: Based on verified reports of crescent sightings in Trinindad and Guyana on the eve of Thursday September 9th 2010 (29 Ramadan), the Hilal Committee of Toronto (A committee of 80 Muslim organizations) has declared the 1st of Shawwal 1431 to be on Friday 10 September 2010. Eid ul Fitr will be celebrated on Friday, [...]
