Muslim Issues

  By Ziyad Motala, Law professor, Howard University School of Law   A pivotal theme in current Islamic political discourse is a demand for justice, a key tenet of the Quran. A popular complaint in Islamic political argument is discrimination against Muslims in the west such as the ban of the veil in European countries, minarets in Switzerland or racial …

Founder of WikiLeaks granted £240,000 bail at Westminster magistrates court after celebrities stand sureties By Mark Tran A British court today granted bail with strict conditions to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who faces allegations of rape in Sweden. Assange's lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson, asked the City of Westminster magistrates court in London for bail on five conditions: £200,000 …

  Analysis by Alan Lawson Our bulletin from a few days ago "Wikileaks: Brought to you by the CIA" from a video made in July struck a nerve.  Here's some follow up.  This video shows how Wikileaks and the way that the Corporate-owned, CIA-controlled media is handling the Wikileaks circus is a dream come true for Israel and its goal …

  Our real-life Neo did it again! In this new installment of Wiki-Matrix, the intrepid Julian Assange assaults the Empire while being pursued by ravenous Pentagon generals, shadowy CIA agents and overheated Swedish feminists. Excuse me if I’m sounding like a teenager’s comic book, but this story has so many twists and plots it makes my head swim. I haven’t been …

'Cablegate' has provided the Arab public with an insightful peek into the inner circles of their respective states.        Western diplomats may or may not always be lying for their own country. But could Western diplomacy, in the case of the Middle East, serve to make non-Western rulers lie to their own countries? The Wikileaks revelatory cables shed some light on …

Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and wanted 'Christian roots' enshrined in EU constitution By Heather Brooke and Andrew Brown A WikiLeaks cable reports that Pope Benedict XVI, seen here being received by Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara in 2006, 'might prefer to see Turkey develop a special relationship short of EU membership'. Photograph: Dylan …