May 25, 2005 | 16 Rabi al-Akhir 1426 Hijriah
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The ClipboardAmnesty International Takes Aim at United States in Annual Human Rights Report
Amnesty International branded the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a human rights failure Wednesday, releasing a 308-page report that offers stinging criticism of the United States and its detention centers around the world. "Guantanamo has become the gulag...
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veiled4allahis this the new democracy in Egypt?
Abu Aardvark: Well. Lovely. Democracy... marching along... and beating the shinola out of anyone who isn't marching in ranks, while groping as many available protesting women as possible. What's that about? Read on: Kifaya men were dragged into the crowds...
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veiled4allahviolence in the name of religion
Tom Regan at the Christian Science Monitor blog wants to provide a little context: Christians, Jews, and Buddhists don't "lash out in homocidal rage when their religion is insulted"? Would that it were so. Unfortunately, even a cursury scan of...
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The ClipboardU.S. Ramps Up Arms Supplies to Repressive Regimes
The United States has accelerated arms sales to some of the world's most repressive and undemocratic regimes since the Sep. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, according to a new report from leading arms trade researchers. The report, from...
