Nobel Peace Prize winner speaks out against Islamic tribunals in Canada
Shirin Ebadi , a human-rights lawyer who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, spoke out Monday against the introduction of special Islamic tribunals in Canada. A Muslim group in Ontario proposed setting up the tribunals to settle family...
International brief ~ Turk president vetoes penal code provision on Koran teaching
Leading Friday's international brief, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a part of the new penal code {JURIST report] approved by the Turkish Parliament that would have lowered the penalty for anyone...
AP is reporting that Hummam Hammoudi, a Shiite Muslim cleric who is a senior aide in the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , will likely be announced as head of the Iraqi constitution committee....
Kuwait will begin cracking down on illegal weapon possession after an amnesty period ends on Thursday. In February, Kuwait passed a law giving police broad powers to search for unlicensed weapons. The law allows the...
The Status of Muslim Civil Rights in the United States 2005: Unequal Protection, Council on American Islamic Relations, May 11, 2005 [finding that hate crimes and civil rights violations against Muslims in the United States have reached their highest point...
Hate crimes and civil rights violations against Muslims in the United States have reached their highest point since right after September 11, according to a report released Wednesday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) . As reasons...
The newly formed Iraqi government on Tuesday created a 55-member committee that will begin work on drafting the country's permanent constitution by the August 15 deadline prescribed by the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) , the interim Iraqi constitution. The...
Poll: 3 of 4 Iraqis want Islam to be primary source for Iraq law
A poll of 2700 Iraqis released Friday reports that three out of four citizens believe that Islam should be a primary source of Iraqi law and legislation, with only two percent of respondents believing that religion...
JTF-Gitmo Information on Detainees, US Department of Defense, March 4, 2005. Excerpt:The US Government currently maintains custody of approximately 550 enemy combatants in the Global War on Terrorism at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many of these enemy combatants are highly trained,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Kristen Stilt of the University of Washington School of Law says that official US emphasis on the urgency of the forthcoming Iraqi constitutional process overlooks the fundamental question of whether such a process, undertaken now, will in...
