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Bangladesh restores Facebook access
Authorities in Bangladesh have lifted the ban on Facebook, the social networking website. The website had been blocked a week earlierover caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and "obnoxious" images of Bangladeshi leaders. The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC)ordered the country's international Internet gateway providers.. More -
The myth of Israeli morality
The Israeli attack on the international aid flotilla - killing nine and injuring dozens more - is not the first example of non-violent resistance by Palestinians and their supporters being met by force. Israel has, in fact, at different times reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity. B.. More -
Gaza's real humanitarian crisis
The Israeli government has, for weeks, insisted that the 10,000 tons of supplies on board the Gaza aid flotilla are not necessary. Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister, reiterated that claim on Friday, telling reporters "there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza". "Israel is conducting itself in the most humanitarian manner, and.. More -
Israel accused of sexual child-abuse
An international children's rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them. The Geneva-based Defense for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affidavits from Palestinian children who said they were mistreated.. More -
The price of impunity
When the UN Human Rights Council convened a special session on Sri Lanka last May, many were hoping for meaningful discussion about possible war crimes committed during the final phase of the country's civil war. Thousands of civilians, who had been trapped between the Sri Lankan military and increasingly desperate Tamil rebels, were dead. Reports.. More -
'Israeli nuclear offer to S Africa'
Israel offered to sell apartheid-era South Africa nuclear warheads in 1975, British newspaper The Guardian has reported. According to documents obtained by the newspaper, a secret meeting between then-Israeli defense minister Shimon Peres and his South African counterpart PW Botha ended with an offer by Jerusalem for the sale of warheads "in three.. More -
Iraqi orphans face uncertain future
The Iraqi government says that there are 3.5 million orphans in Iraq; the UN estimate is around one million. Noor Abdul-Rassoul Ali, of the Iraqi Orphan Foundation, estimates that there are about five million orphans. Whatever the true number, the children of war face an uncertain future, Zeina Khodr, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Baghdad, says,.. More -
Pakistani civilians suffer from displacement over army attacks
Pakistan suffered the highest number of internally displaced people in 2009 due to Pakistan's army attacks on civilian regions where Pakistani Taliban is powerful, a United Nations study showed on Monday. The number of internally displaced people worldwide reached 27.1 million individuals in 2009, the highest number since records began in the mid 1990s,.. More -
Expelled from home and native land but not from history
When asked for a definition of "peace" during a CBC interview, Canadian scientist, educator and renowned activist Ursula Franklin stated: "Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of justice and the absence of fear." This simple definition helps explain why there is still no peace in Palestine. The man-made Palestinian.. More -
Fataawa Regarding Mother's Day-II
5- Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez ibn Baaz, may Allah have mercy upon him, said, I read the article that was published by An-Nadwah Journal, on 30-11-1384 AH, under the title "Honoring the Mother and Honoring the Family", and felt that the writer appreciated, from many perspectives, the Western innovation of fixing a day in the year to.. More -
Fataawa Regarding Mother's Day-I
1- The scholars of the Permanent Committee, may Allah have mercy upon them, said, All perfect praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds and may His peace and blessing be upon His Messenger, his family and Companions. First: The word “‘Eed” [festival] is a term given to the occasion of assembly which customarily recurs annually,.. More -
‘US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan’
The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan. New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced.. More -
New Israeli illegal settlement in East Jerusalem
The Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, approved the construction of 14 units in Maaleh David outpost, which is a new settlement neighborhood planned to be built in Ras Amoud Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli Peace Now Movement issued a press release stating that the new settlement will include 104 units and.. More -
Poverty 'widespread' in E Jerusalem
A majority of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, including three out of four children, live in poverty, an Israeli rights group has said. In a report released on Monday, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) accused Israel of neglect and discrimination in its policies. Despite the conditions, only 10 per cent of East Jerusalem's 300,000 Palestinian.. More -
Massacres expose another reason to end Iraq and Afghanistan wars
The recent exposés from Iraq and Afghanistan--with their shocking images, appalling laughter, and video-game ethos--would have shocked the conscience of the world in an earlier era. After all, when what happened at My Lai was exposed during the Vietnam War, it shocked millions of people who hadn't been thinking very much about the war. My Lai.. More
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