By Nathan Freed Wessler, Fellow, ACLU, and Pardiss Kebriaei, Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Today the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rightsfiled a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information about a horrific U.S. missile strike that killed dozens of civilians in Yemen. This was the Obama administration's first known missile strike in Yemen, carried out with one or more …

Thousands of victims still await justice while perpetrators roam around free Last week’s special court verdict, ten years after the anti Muslim pogrom in Gujarat,    convicting 23 people in the burning to death of 23   Muslim women and children in the Ode town brought some relief to the beleaguered Muslims. However confidence in the judiciary will be restored only after …

UK is one of the countries that have either downsized their defence budgets or made marginal increases in a bid to cut budget deficits.  Credit:US Navy/public domain UNITED NATIONS, Apr 17, 2012 (IPS) – The global economic crisis – which had its origins back in 2008 – has had a spreading negative impact on military spending worldwide, according to a …

Most of the children who are studying in this school come from low income families. As our school exists, the children are offered Islamic knowledge and religious studies. Especially Muslim girls are greatly benefitted from this school for their personal and religious life in their pursuit to follow Islam.             But, unfortunately, the number of students of this school has been …

  President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday opened the new building of the Al- Kabeer Grand Jumma Mosque in Nuwara Eliya as the first Sri Lankan President to open a mosque and the first non- Islamic leader in the world to open a mosque. He opened the mosque after receiving the blessings of Buddhist monks at the Nuwara Eliya Buddhist Centre in …