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Current Situation: ‘I was stripped of my shoelaces, dignity because of my nationality’
Posted by: admin on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 01:46 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Why is the US Government allowing its Immigration and Naturalisation Service to stomp all over America’s image as the land of liberty, freedom?
Ejaz Haider
On January 28, two agents from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) arrested me outside my office at the Brookings Institution.
In a matter of moments I was transformed from research scholar at a venerable Washington think tank to suspect, from a person with a name and a face to a ‘‘body,’’ a non-person.
Note: (LA Times-Washington Post)
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Current Situation: The Other Face of Fanaticism (NY Times- Feb 2, 2003)
Posted by: aquddus on Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 02:47 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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The Other Face of Fanaticism
By PANKAJ MISHRA
On the evening of Jan. 30, 1948, five months after the independence and partition of India, Mohandas Gandhi was walking to a prayer meeting on the grounds of his temporary home in New Delhi when he was shot three times in the chest and abdomen. Gandhi was then 78 and a forlorn figure. He had been unable to prevent the bloody creation of Pakistan as a separate homeland for Indian Muslims. The violent uprooting of millions of Hindus and Muslims across the hastily drawn borders of India and Pakistan had tainted the freedom from colonial rule that he had so arduously worked toward. The fasts he had undertaken in order to stop Hindus and Muslims from killing one another had weakened him, and when the bullets from an automatic pistol hit his frail body at point-blank range, he collapsed and died instantly. His assassin made no attempt to escape and, as he himself would later admit, even shouted for the police.
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Current Situation: U.S. turns back border policy that targets some Canadians
Posted by: aquddus on Friday, November 01, 2002 - 04:10 PM EST
Topic Local Canadian News
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But travellers warned change may come slowly
By Tim Harper and Allan Thompson - OTTAWA BUREAU
OTTAWA — The Bush administration in Washington abruptly backed down yesterday from a policy which Ottawa said unfairly targeted Canadian citizens born in selected Middle Eastern countries.
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham told the House of Commons he had been given assurances by U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci that Canadian passport-holders born in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan or Syria would no longer be photographed or fingerprinted upon arrival in the U.S.
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Current Situation: US Postal Service Reissues Muslim Stamp (washigton post)
Posted by: aquddus on Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 07:42 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Postal Service Reissues Muslim Stamp
Some Had Protested Image Honoring Eid Feast Days
By Chris L. Jenkins
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 18, 2002; Page B03
A postage stamp that commemorates Muslim feast days known as Eid, issued first by the U.S. Postal Service last year and created by an Arlington artist, has been reprinted this year, despite requests for its retraction immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Note: © 2002 The Washington Post Company
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Current Situation: The hidden price of Afghanistan's new freedoms
Posted by: aquddus on Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 02:46 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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The hidden price of Afghanistan's new freedoms
By EISHIRO TAKEISHI, The Asahi Shimbun
The Taliban may have been ousted, but the moral void is filled with black-market drinking and gambling.
KABUL-Even after the ouster of the Taliban, Afghanistan is still an Islamic country where alcohol is prohibited. Unsurprisingly-given the historical success rate of prohibition edicts worldwide-a flourishing black market for alcohol has sprung up.
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Current Situation: Muslim Organization Respond to Falwell Hate Speech
Posted by: aquddus on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 07:36 PM EST
Topic News around the world
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Muslim Organization Respond to Falwell Hate Speech - Wednesday, October 09, 2002
PLAINFIELD, IN - The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) in collaboration with all other major national Muslim organizations has forwarded a letter to President Bush, asking him to issue "a clear and unambiguous statement" on the issue of anti-Islamic rhetoric in order to "pull us back from the brink."
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Current Situation: PM Speaks out on U.S. deportation(Toronto Star)
Posted by: aquddus on Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 07:27 PM EST
Topic Local Canadian News
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Ottawa turning to Syria for help finding Canadian
By Allan Thompson and Tonda MacCharles -OTTAWA BUREAU
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien added his voice yesterday to Canada's formal protest of the way U.S. authorities treated a Syrian-born Canadian who was detained in New York while changing planes, then mysteriously deported to Syria.
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Current Situation: ‘Post-Godhra, Muslims the new untouchables’
Posted by: admin on Saturday, October 12, 2002 - 09:04 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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Indian Express
THE National Chairman of the All India Confederation of Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Organisations, 44-year-old Udit Raj (previously Ram Raj) is one of the youngest Dalit leaders of the country. Converted to Buddhism a year ago, this Additional Commissioner of Income Tax in Delhi is busy forging new alliances with Dalit Muslim organisations and other Buddhist associations. Although associated with one of the largest Dalit organisations in the country, his limitation is that he has not been able to form a political party yet. In an interview with AJIT KUMAR JHA, Udit Raj explains why Dalit politicians must forge alliances with minorities.
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Current Situation: General Dyer’s gaurav yatra
Posted by: admin on Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 05:42 PM EST
Topic Current Issues around the world
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SWAMINOMICS / SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR
[ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2002 10:12:06 PM ]
Times of India
When Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat, decided to launch a Gaurav Yatra (journey of pride for Hindus), it reminded me of another incident which I could not put my finger on.
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