Guest Column

CCD urges immediate action on eligibility of Qazi Hussain Ahmad to enter Canada

Ottawa, Canada - The Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD) is calling on the federal government to review the application for a Canadian visa by Mr. Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who has been invited to speak in Canada this weekend.

Brave Bangladeshi journalists asks for your help

Bangladesh government withdrew police protection from my residence suddenly on May 5, 2008. I made numerous requests to them to restore the protection. But, it was never done. My brother Dr. Richard L Benkin also made similar requests, but in vain. This afternoon, an official with Uttara Police Station [where my residence is located] told me on condition of anonymity that the police protection was withdrawn following a high-level instruction. I was also assured by several high officials that the police protection will be back. But it hasn't returned!

President plans to kill off every single homosexual

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh says he will “cut off the head” of any homosexual caught in his country.

Islamic militants may be behind film piracy: Philippines official

MANILA (AFP) — Al-Qaeda linked Islamic militants are suspected of rampant intellectual piracy in the Philippines, particularly of Hollywood films, to raise funds, a senior media industry official said Wednesday.

Iraqi: ‘I killed her with a machine gun’

BASRA, Iraq (CNN) -- The man, blindfolded and handcuffed, crouches in the corner of the detention center while an Iraqi soldier grills him about rampant crimes being carried out by gangs in the southern city of Basra.

NIGERIA: RESCUE OF GIRLS IGNITES ISLAMIC RAMPAGE

Six churches gutted after recovery of Christians teenagers from Muslim kidnappers.

Investigators to Release Reports on Obama’s Communist Connections:

Washington, DC- Two veterans of investigations into Communist influence on the U.S. political process will hold a briefing on Capitol Hill to release two new explosive reports on Barack Obama's ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA. The reports will shed important new light on Barack Obama's mysterious past.

Iran: Police Arrest 12 Christian Converts

Four still imprisoned in crackdown in Shiraz.

Cause and Consequence: Deathblow in the Netherlands

Last week, the Dutch police raided the home of Gregorius Nekschot (a pseudonym meaning “Gregory Deathblow”). Mr. Nekschot makes rude and often sexually explicit cartoons that poke fun at the multicultural society and at religious people, especially Muslims. The police confiscated his computer and a number of drawings. The cartoonist was also arrested and jailed for 36 hours but has meanwhile been released until his court case is due.

Review of “Persistence of Poverty”

An excellent book has recently come out, which should be read by anyone with an interest in poverty, its causes, and its eradication. Especially, anyone advocating elimination of poverty through a demogrant, a grant to everyone in society sufficient to meet all basic needs.

Bosnia: Al-Qaeda smuggling weapons into Croatia, paper claims

Banjaluka, 21 May (AKI) – Al-Qaeda and the Muslim fundamentalist Wahabi movement's operatives have been smuggling weapons and explosives into neighbouring Croatia, Bosnian daily Nezavisne novine reported on Wednesday.

Court overturns al-Dura libel judgment

Haviv Rettig , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 21, 2008 The French Court of Appeals on Wednesday found in favor of Jewish activist Philippe Karsenty, overturning a lower court decision that he had libeled France 2 and its Jerusalem correspondent Charles Enderlin when he accused them of knowingly misleading the watching world about the death of the Palestinian child Mohammed al-Dura in the Gaza Strip in 2000.

Statement by John McCain on Senator Obama and National Security

ARLINGTON, Virginia May 21 /Standard Newswire/ -- U.S. Senator John McCain today issued the following statement:

‘Dead Gazan’ alive and kicking

Meital Yasur-Beit Or, Israel News Rights group got it wrong: Gaza cancer patient who 'died while waiting for permit' still a

Iran sets off nuclear race in the Middle East

By David Blair, Diplomatic Editor, Telegraph Iran's neighbours began their nuclear programmes within months of Tehran's decision to start enriching uranium, according to a new report.

Prosthetic Legs Given the Official OK

An international court ruled on Friday that South African Oscar Pistorius can once again return to the track. A sprinter, hoping to even make the Beijing Olympics, Pistorius has had to fight through more than your average athlete though. Miles and miles of red tape, bad scientific reporting, and, oh yeah, he’s an amputee. The 21-year-old is known as “the fastest man on no legs” and “Blade Runner”, referring to the prosthetic limbs that look like a pair of blades, known as “Cheetah Flex-Foot”. The carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs were what put him in trouble though, when the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAFF) banned him from competing. The IAFF’s theory was that his prosthetic limbs gave him an added advantage over other athletes, and he has had to subsequently spend the past 6 months in court, fighting this decision, rather than training.

Science and Art Meet at Last

The combination of fields has always been a part of science and academia: combining medicine with nanotechnology; physics with astronomy; archaeology with history. However, just occasionally, science will be paired with something unquantifiable and, too many scientists, just as mysterious as the cosmos.

Google Earth to Showcase Climate Change

Together with Britain’s environment ministry and the country’s Meteorological Office, Google has created a new animated map that layers over its Google Earth program to illustrate the potential impact of global climate change over the next century.

The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop it

Last week I mentioned in my article on Google’s Android that Professor Jonathan Zittrain had announced to the world in his new book that gadgets such as iPhones and Xbox’s would threaten the future of the internet. The book, entitled “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop it”, has stirred up a lot of discussion across the internet.

Why We Should Negotiate With Iran

National elections are actually debates over an American vision of itself and the rest of the world. We select presidents on the basis of whether we think they have a good or bad vision of the future, but we rarely ask ourselves what other nation’s expect of us.