November 14, 2010
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will likely be held in military prison without a trial indefinitely as the Obama administration decides what to do with the 9/11 mastermind, according to a new report. A trial – civilian or military – is not expected to happen before the next presidential election, the Washington Post reported Saturday. The Obama […]
October 19, 2010
Islamic insurgents attacked Chechnya’s parliament Tuesday in a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded, defying Kremlin claims of stability in the volatile southern region. In a clear challenge to Moscow, the raid occurred just as Russia’s interior minister was visiting the provincial capital of Grozny. The three attackers drove to […]
October 15, 2010
The public prosecution department on Friday afternoon stated that Geert Wilders is not guilty of discriminating against Muslims. Earlier on Friday it announced he should also be found not guilty of inciting hatred. Prosecutors Birgit van Roessel and Paul Velleman reached their conclusions after a careful reading of interviews with and articles by the anti-Islam […]
September 18, 2010
“There is no more Molly,” reports Seattle Weekly. Molly Norris, formerly a cartoonist for the alternative paper, has gone into hiding. At the suggestion of the FBI, “she is, as they put it, ‘going ghost‘: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity.” Why? Because, as the New York Times reports, imam Anwar […]
September 18, 2010
U.S. cartoonist Molly Norris has been declared a ‘target’ by Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has issued a fatwa calling for her death. The social satirist, who stirred up a religious storm earlier this year with a tongue-in-cheek encouragement to draw images of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, has gone into hiding after threats to her […]
September 15, 2010
In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here, a novel about the rise of tyranny in America, whose message was that it indeed can happen here. Just to remind us that in fact it “can happen here”, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer used the occasion of his appearance on noted legal forum, Good Morning […]
November 29, 2010
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