Muslim Issues

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference about the internet release of secret documents about the Iraq War, in London October 23, 2010. Whistleblower website Wikileaks has released documents suggesting that the Pentagon instructed US-led forces to "secretly" torture detainees in Iraq. In the largest-ever revelation of secret US military documents, Wikileaks has released nearly 400,000 classified reports …

Newly-released Iraq war secrets by Wikileaks has revealed a large number of brutalities against Iraqi civilians and children, one such document recounts the rape of an Iraqi girl by a US-led soldier. According to the document, a US-led soldier raped a little Iraqi girl in 2007 but was not disciplined for his act of violence. The soldier was merely notified …

As the nation vies for membership in the European Union, support for the move among the populous is waning Peter O'Neil writes. Millions of Europeans arrive here each year to visit historic sites like the Blue Mosque; to savour the aromas of roasting kebabs, barbecued fish and apple-flavoured water pipe smoke; and to haggle with merchants at the energy-oozing Grand …

  The end of the civil war in Sri Lanka last year has given hope to thousands of Muslims exiled from the north of the country by the Tamils. In October 1990, the Tamil Tigers accused the Muslim minority of collaborating with the mainly Sinhalese government and expelled them from the region. Some were given only hours to leave, but …

At last somebody has said it in the most explicit way possible. The somebody also said: “The problem is Zionism and the solution is dismantling the Zionist framework and instituting a secular democracy that does not discriminate between Israelis and Palestinians.” The somebody was Miko Peled, a Jewish peace activist who was born in Israel and lives in America. He …