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Islam and Honor Killings

For that reason, we ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul for other than murder or spreading corruption in the land, it is as if he

Relative Violence in Islam and Christianity

I’m writing a book on the origins of religious violence and my thesis is that there has been far more religiously motivated violence in the Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—than

Egyptian Police Torturers Show no Mercy to Mentally Handicapped Lad!

A policeman in the southern Egyptian governorate of Monoufia embarked on a very outlandish action. He tortured a mentally-handicapped 16-years old boy to extend the Egyptian’s notoriously systematic torture against

Evidence of Israeli ’cowardly blending’ comes to light

It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of

A Drunken Night in Iraq, A Soldier Is Left Behind

The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured.

IOF troops withdraw from Nablus after inflicting 80 casualties

The IOF troops on Saturday withdrew from the West Bank city of Nablus after wreaking havoc for almost three days that ended with destroying a number of buildings in the

No Murder Charges Filed in Haditha Case

After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will

Jane Harman and Liberty’s Lost Light

What was the greatest failure of 2007? President Bush’s "surge" in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was

Obama and Romney Iowa Campaign Offices Occupied by Peace Activists

Opponents of the occupation of Iraq today occupied the Iowa campaign headquarters of presidential candidates U.S. Senator Barak Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, waiting for a response to

Mishaal: Our people has no other option but to resist occupation

Khaled Mishaal, the chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, has affirmed that the Palestinian people had no other option but to resist occupation, revealing that he refused a European offer to