September, 2013

• 18 September

  Abercrombie & Fitch Violated Federal Law by Firing a Muslim Woman for Wearing a Head Scarf, Judge Rules

  

  Source: http://www.alternet.org/ Company claimed the headscarf violated their "Look Policy" marketing strategy. September 9, 2013  |     SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) – Abercrombie & Fitch violated federal law by firing a Muslim woman for wearing a head scarf as her religion requires, a federal judge has ruled. As a Muslim woman, Umme-Hani Khan wears a head scarf, also known as a …

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• 16 September

  A Plea for Caution From Russia By Vladimir V. Putin

  

  What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria   Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization — the United Nations — was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again. The United …

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• 16 September

  Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa’s statement on Muslim extremism By Latheef Farook

  

  Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s statement on what he described as the “emergence of Muslim extremism” has shocked and dismayed the island’s besieged and helpless Muslim community. Addressing a defense seminar at Galadari Hotel on Tuesday 3 September Mr.Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated that the country was faced with an uphill task of tackling Sinhala hardliners as well as Muslim extremists. He added that …

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• 16 September

  The magic has turned against the magician! – On Twelfth Anniversary of 9/11 Al-Qaida Stronger Than Ever

  

  Wednesday marks the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that changed the course of world history and dragged the US into wars in the Middle East which have brought her to the brink of bankruptcy, both financially and morally, and rocked her foundations. The prestigious British  Economist said, in an editorial commenting on the attacks, that the United States and its …

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• 11 September

  Sri Lanka’s Muslims: The End Of The Road By Ameer Ali –

  Sri Lanka’s Muslims are at an unprecedented and ominous crossroads. The community there is faced with an existential threat at the hands of an increasingly militant Buddhist minority, while the nation’s Muslim parliamentarians appear to be more powerless and mute than at any time since 1947. This impotence is startling because the current parliament holds the largest number of Muslim …

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• 8 September

  Opening remarks by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay at a press conference during her mission to Sri Lanka

  

  Colombo, 31 August 2013 Good morning, and thank you for coming. As is customary at the end of official missions such as this, I would like to make some observations concerning the human rights situation in the country. During my seven-day visit, I have held discussions with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and senior members of the Government. These included the Ministers …

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• 8 September

  What do you Want me to Wear? By Binth Niwas –

  

  The spread of hate speech and campaign against Muslims is not something novel in history. We have witnessed this happening in our very own Sri Lanka in the recent past, in direct terms as well as in forms of manipulative sugarcoated speech. An important issue that is directed against Muslims is against the dress – Abaya worn by Muslim women. …

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