January 11, 2005 | 30 Dhu-l-Qidah 1425 Hijriah
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veiled4allahDhu'l-Hijjah starts January 12
The Islamic month of Dhu'l-Hijjah starts tonight at sunset with the official first day being January 12 (in the Islamic calendar, months start the night before the designated day, at sunset when the new crescent moon is seen). Dhu'l-Hijjah is...
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The ClipboardBush Picks Ex-Aide to Ashcroft for Homeland Security Post
In the Justice Department from 2001 to 2003, he was best known for helping to craft the Bush administration's antiterrorism campaign following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. As head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Mr. Chertoff set aside...
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The ClipboardNuts and dolts: The shadow of El Salvador haunts the Iraqi elections
There's only one small problem with this version of Salvadoran history as applied to the coming vote in Iraq: It's false. I was in San Salvador on that 1982 election day. Diane Sawyer was also there, along with a small...
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The ClipboardIs Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist? To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical, especially in...
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The ClipboardD.C. told to pay inaugural expenses out of homeland security funds
D.C. officials said yesterday that the Bush administration is refusing to reimburse the District for most of the costs associated with next week's inauguration, breaking with precedent and forcing the city to divert $11.9 million from homeland security projects. Federal...
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The ClipboardCivil Liberties and Enemy Combatants
The reality, however, was significantly less uplifting. Berkeley law professor John Yoo, a former official in John Ashcroft's Justice Department, concluded that the Court had left the government "with sufficient flexibility to effectively prevail in the future." The effects of...
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The ClipboardMore Dissent in Pentagon Ranks Over Iraq War
For the second time in as many months, a report by a key Pentagon advisory group has implicitly taken the administration of President George W. Bush to task for major failures in pre-war planning, particularly with respect to Iraq. A...
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veiled4allahanother new frontier
Via A Dervish's Du'a, an account of a woman officiating at a Muslim marriage: I knew, from my academic specialization in Islamic marriage law, that there was no legal obstacle to my officiating at the marriage. The role of imam...
