Muslim Issues

Former US sec. of state tells Palestinians: Even if Israel trusts you, you're still incapable of providing security, in leaked documents. Former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice reassured Israel that the US military presence in Iraq should calm any Israeli security concerns "from the east," minutes from a 2008 trilateral meeting between Rice and the Israeli and Palestinian negotiation teams …

  What are the Palestine Papers? The Palestine Papers are the largest leak of confidential files in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a cache of more than 1,600 documents encompassing the most recent decade of negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.  They are an unprecedented window into Israeli, PA, US, European, and Arab relations and reveal …

  One in three Canadians believe that Aboriginal Peoples and Muslims are the frequent targets of discrimination, a CBC-commissioned poll suggests. About 28 per cent of the 2,000 surveyed by pollster Environics Research Group in February and March also said Pakistanis/East Indians often suffer from intolerance, while 20 per cent said blacks regularly faced it. More than a tenth of …

  Over the last few days we have seen some of the bravest people facing down some of the worst. Armed with nothing more than a revolutionary heart and hopes of a better future they gathered and protested as government forces aimed their weapons and fired live rounds in to the crowds. But the ammunition and the underlying threats of …

Referendum for separation in South Sudan Washington,London,Tel Aviv conspiracy to break up Sudan The weeklong referendum for the Christian South of predominantly Muslim Sudan to decide whether to establish a separate country or remain within a united country is likely to tear apart this largest country in Africa, with unpredictable consequences throughout the continent. Sudan is blessed with such fertile …

Parliament speaker becomes interim leader after president of 23 years, facing a mass uprising, lands in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has said that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's president for more than 23 years, and his family are in the kindgom, a day after they fled a mass uprising in their country. The departure came as a dramatic climax to weeks of violent …