Four of the five UK residents who are being held at Guantanamo Bay are to be released following a request by the British government. They are not British citizens but all lived in the UK before being held. Who are they and how did they come to be in US detention?
A 14-year old girl in the Belgian town of Jemeppe-sur-Meuse stabbed her father last week, after suffering months of abuse, and a threat by the girl’s father to send her to be married off in Algeria. According to the girl, the father did not want his daughter to have contact with boys; his distrust of…
Two recently released reports highlight the difference between the FBI’s calculation of the number of religiously motivated hate crimes and that of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Chuck Hustmyre reports.
Toledo, Ohio native Zak Reed is tired of being stopped and detained at the Canadian border every time he tries to drive home. Reed, who converted to Islam ten years ago is on the Terrorism Watch List administered by the Department of Homeland Security. He is stopped and detained routinely for no reason, as are…
An initiative for an international conference on interfaith dialogue towards global peace approved at Peace Embassy, in Brussels, Belgium. Announcing the formation of a permanent committee for inter-faith cooperation involving NGO’s, religious scholar’s, members of various religious communities, and the media to discuss such topics as extremis, intolerance, conflict resolution, terrorism, justice, and human rights….
