Muslim Issues

  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 …

Many of the young Israeli men and women who gathered a few weeks ago in the spacious hall of the Muqata in Ramallah must have wondered about the identity of the dark-haired woman who had a place of honor at the dignitaries' table, between MK Shlomo Molla and former MK Colette Avital. Some of them were still in diapers when Hanan …

I can't help but wonder why folks are so afraid to call the mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona an act of terrorism. The fear of the "T" word seems almost palpable in describing the gruesome events that took place this past Saturday. There is little explanation or reasoning for the omission, except that it's very obvious what most Americans won't …