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  NEW YORK: A United Nations panel of human rights experts has accused Israel of war crimes through wilful killing, unnecessary brutality and torture in its ''clearly unlawful'' assault on a ship attempting to break the blockade of Gaza in May, in which nine Turkish activists died. The report by three experts appointed by the UN's Human Rights Council described the …

  What will be the repercussions when two giants clash? China, the world's number two economic power, and Japan, which had until recently held the number two position, are on a collision course and the intricacies of the disputes and their ramifications make one wonder whether a new bipolar world, similar to the one that had existed for some five …

  Report of the Independent Fact Finding Committee On Gaza – "No Safe Place" On September 21, the UN Human Rights Council's independent fact finding Committee issued its report titled, "No Safe Place," (Read report here) assessing "investigat(ions) and report(s) on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during" Operation Cast Lead. Its members included: Professor John Dugard, Chairman, …

Daniel Pipes' 2005 article on terrorism starts with the following statement "What do Islamist terrorists want? The answer should be obvious, but it is not." After a tortuous description of so many cases of terrorism, Daniel Pipes finally pronounces the verdict: "In nearly all cases, the jihadi terrorists have a patently self-evident ambition: to establish a world dominated by Muslims, Islam, and …

Assalamualaikum It is with the deepest sense of sorrow I write this to share my encounters with professor Jiffry. I first met him when he was the Deen of the faculty of medicine in the University of Sri jayawardenapura in Nugegoda. That was the first meeting at the Deen's office to discuss establishing a para medics training centre or a …

  This is a transcript of a talk by Imam Khalid Lathif on human rights under Islam, delivered at the American Corner of the National Library on 3rd August 2010.Imam  Khalid Latif is the Executive Director and Chaplain for the Islamic Center at NYU. His dedication to working across the boundaries of faith and culture lead to his appointment as …