'Current Affairs' Category
Oh. My. God!
This is just so ridiculous.
Justice Peter Openshaw, a judge over the trial of Tariq al-Daour, Waseem Mughal and Younis Tsouli does not know what a website is! Lol. Allaahul musta`aan.. This is just sad..
Read the full news article here.
The article also had a hilarious bit at the end:
“What are the Beatles?†judicial legend; [...]For you, a thousand times over indeed.
May the stars carry your sadness away,
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,
May hope forever wipe away your tears,
And, above all, may silence make you strong.
- Chief Dan George.
Cheeks stained with tears, and hearts wrenched with agony and frustration. The families had just heard about the painful and humiliating ordeal Steven Vikash Chand [25 [...]What do I say?
Another brother that we have disappointed as Muslims and as humans. Huseyin Cecil. A Canadian Uyghur Imaam was sentenced to life imprisonement on April 19th, 2007. As I was browsing the site that has been setup as a part of the Initiative to help release Cecil, I came across some very graphic pictures of how [...]
“..and the skin on his forehead torn away..”
This is a picture of the 26 year old hotel worker who was killed while in the custody of the British Soldiers in Iraq [follow the story here]. This is what his father said:
“When I saw the corpse I burst into tears and I still cannot bear to think about what I saw. I was [...]“Surely, Allaah is All-Aware of what they do..”
U.K. captives’ release was `a gift’: IranApril 5.I’m not sure I understand all the hoopla about the 15 British soldiers who were detained by Iran. By all accounts, they were treated humanely and, after some bluster from both sides, released.
In contrast, the United States has kidnapped, arrested and still imprisons thousands of “insurgents” and “enemy combatants” all over the world, in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and now, it also appears, in Ethiopia. Solitary confinement and torture is widespread. And these suspected terrorists, in particular, are being held in a legal black hole indefinitely, without access to a lawyer or loved ones, the right to a trial or even knowing the case against them. Hundreds were turned in by bounty hunters and paid informants, whose names they do not know.
Which is worse?
Ottawa’s silence on Omar Khadr
Toronto Star - Editorial
 ”“Guantanamo should be closed … there is a taint about it.” That was U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates, speaking to American lawmakers just a few days ago about the infamous military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where 385 alleged terrorists are being held. He is right. The “military commission” trials being held [...]
