- Nearly three-quarters of terrorism suspects seized by the US in the five years following the September 11, 2001, attacks have not even made it to trial because of lack of evidence against them, a new report based on government data says.
- The sessions at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention had a little something for everyone. Some people came to ask questions about Islamic banking, others wanted tips on Muslim dating.
- Amazing photos from around the world.
- “Are random searches effective in keeping everyone safe?”
- In the blogosphere more than in the mainstream media, a new generation of Indians is discussing the meaning of freedom.
- Without mass immigration, low birthrates doom society.
- The administration’s new theme, designed to sell the Iraq war and the larger “war on terrorism” as an historic struggle against “fascism” – or “Islamo-fascism,” as the president and his blogger fan club would have it – is not merely a very bad joke.
- Germaine Greer says, “the animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin”.
- The French ego has taken a beating this summer. In July Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister, published Témoignage (Testimony) in which he told his countrymen to buck up, work harder and be more like the Brits. The response to Sarkozy’s call to arms
- To the government, they were a terrorist risk in the Washington area. To local Muslims, they were unfairly singled out for prosecution and severe sentences in a post-9/11 world.
- An Oregon lawsuit with profound national security significance hinges on a single document.
- Bishop Kurt Koch of Basel, Switzerland, has said that Europeans should be worried less by the strength of Islam than by the weakness of Christian culture.
- History has seen the scapegoating of religious minorities. Christians and Jews have suffered from political assault in the past. Today it is the turn of the Muslims, in Australia
- International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity
- Not directly, of course, but it is the unavoidable denouement of their first principles.
- RADICAL left-wing groups at Melbourne universities are exploiting tensions in the Middle East to promote anti-Semitism and recruit members, according to Jewish student groups.
- The Treasurer Peter Costello talks to Sunday’s political editor Laurie Oakes about Islam, terrorism and Australian values.
- AN Australian woman has been injured in a shooting in the Jordanian capital Amman that killed a British tourist.
- Conspiracy theories were quite prestigious in the 1970s, but ever since the release of Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie “JFK,” the elite cultural atmosphere has turned strongly against them.
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