Gitmo Koran desecration story may have been wrong, say Newsweek editors
After days of deadly anti-US rioting in Afghanistan , protests in other Muslim countries, and condemnations of American actions by civil and judicial leaders around the Muslim world, Newsweek editors have backtracked on their story of...
The head of Uzbekistan's Independent Human Rights Organization was quoted Saturday as saying that some 200 people were killed in the eastern city of Andijan Friday when government forces backed by tanks opened fire on demostrators in...
Nine more killed in Afghan rioting despite US denials of Gitmo Koran desecration
Nine more people were killed in spreading anti-US riots across Afghanistan Friday despite new US assurances that American authorities would not tolerate disrepect for the Koran at Guantanamo Bay or anywhere else and Pentagon insistence that the...
Uzbekistan trial of Muslim businessmen triggers rioting, mass prison break
At least 12 people were killed Friday when thousands of people took to the streets of the eastern Uzebekistan city of Andijan to protest the highly publicized and controversial trial for extremism of 23 Muslim businessmen. Over 2,000 government...
Hearings underway in Srebrenica suit against Dutch government
Hearings began Thursday in a civil suit filed against the Dutch government by two families of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The families claim that the Dutch government should be held responsible because of Dutch peacekeepers'...
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...
A Global Alliance Against Forced Labor, International Labor Organization, May 11, 2005 . Excerpt:Forced labour must be punishable as a crime. This is, in fact, almost universally the case today. The vast...
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...
Report of Koran desecration at Gitmo prompts Afghan riots; 4 killed
Riots erupted across Afghanistan Wednesday in response to a recent report by Newsweek magazine that in an effort to infuriate Muslim prisoners US troops at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran by placing copies on toilets and in one...
An Israeli newspaper reported Monday that senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces want to pre-emptively detain a number of Israeli extremists before the planned Gaza Strip pullout and evacuation of settlements this summer. On...
