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Faisal Kutty, Valparaiso University Law School

Saleh Al Amer, Pitt Law '11, recently interned with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Washington, DC. Saleh is the President of the Muslim Law Students Association at the University of Pittsburgh and writes on discrimination against Muslims in Europe...

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal Monday heard an Islamic advocacy group's allegations that a 2006 article published in Canadian news magazine Maclean's discriminated against Muslims. Mohamed Elmasry and Naiyer Habib, members of the Canadian...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Joseph, counsel for a group of Canadian law students who recently filed human rights complaints against the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's for its refusal to publish a response to a string of articles allegedly targeting Muslim...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Beenish Gaya, sister to one of the accused in the Canadian terrorism trial of members of the "Toronto 18" who supposedly planned to storm the Canadian parliament and take hostages, says that unbalanced and sensational media...

Rights complaints by Muslims in the US rose 25 percent in 2006, according to an annual report on civil rights released Thursday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) . The group attributed the...

Hate crimes are on the rise throughout Europe , rights watchdog Human Rights First reported Thursday in a study examining recent hate crimes in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and the United...

Iram Janjua : "The number of practising Muslims in Britain and Europe is increasing with some women preparing to manifest a more stricter affirmation of their religious identity by choosing to wear the...

Ali Khan : " On January 4, 2006, Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will make history by taking the oath of office as the first Muslim elected to the US House of Representatives. He has decided to take the oath on...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist and UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke says that as the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill proceeds through Parliament we should bear in mind that citizens of democracies expect not only the protection of individual rights, but...