..These are the seldom heard voices of the victims on the ‘war on terror’… we need to be listening…
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net
In a development of far-reaching and frightening implications for the stature of the Indian judiciary, Bar Associations in several parts of the country are effectively banning advocates from defending Muslim youth branded as ‘terrorists’, [...]
By Huma Yusuf
Is anyone else feeling an uncanny sense of deja vu? It seems as if political actors across the globe conspired last week to remind us that history does in fact repeat itself. Looking back at events that have recently unfolded, it becomes clear that the powers that [...]
As we enter the Orwellian Age…………………..
Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
The eye of tech-artist Benjamin Males’ custom-made surveillance camera is engineered for a black and white world.
Black and white people, that is.
Males, 25, a mechanical engineer who recently graduated with a master’s degree from London’s Royal College of Art, wrote the software for a camera that [...]
By D. PARVAZ
P-I COLUMNIST
If you’re wondering how desperate of a pickle we’re in in our “war on terror,” check out the following item: The Department of Justice is mulling over whether to let the FBI investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents without evidence of wrongdoing. Instead, investigators would be allowed to use racial profiling, targeting, [...]
President Bush and I were on the same page on profiling. Now Attorney General Michael Mukasey has me thinking outside the box.
Mere months after 9/11, with anti-Muslim hysteria peaking, Bush called racial profiling “wrong in America.” This after one of his Secret Service agents was kept off a commercial flight because he is Arab-American.
Former [...]
AAI, ADC, MPAC Concerned By Alleged DOJ Guidelines
Washington, DC - The Arab American Institute (AAI), the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and other organizations are concerned by an Associated Press report (http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=5294541 ) quoting “senior FBI, Justice Department, and U.S. intelligence officials” concerning new Department of Justice guidelines which are [...]
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
In this May 19, 2008 photo, Attorney General Michael Mukasey talks at a roundtable discussion with federal, state and local law enforcement leaders in New Orleans Monday, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, [...]
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