A former Prime Minister calls for the death penalty to be handed out to an Afghan journalist accused of distributing an unacceptable translation of the Koran*.
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Omar Khadr sobbed and begged for help as he was questioned in the first video glimpse of interrogations at Guantanamo Bay.
Canadians are divided on the situation of the teenage boy.
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Sudan’s president has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
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Tim Spicer, the former British soldier who is said to be effectively running the ’second biggest military service in Iraq’, has hired Schillings to help him block publication of a new book by Craig Murray.
(Via Septic Isle.)
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Afghans must be free to set laws that clash with Western values if order is to be established in the country, Des Browne, the UK defence secretary, said yesterday.
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A Christian registrar who was harassed and discriminated against after she refused to carry out same-sex civil partnership ceremonies has won a key legal battle.
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Abu Qatada, “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, was released form prison last week.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) granted Abu Qatada bail on Tuesday with strict conditions, which includes a ban on attending mosques, leading prayers or giving religious instruction.
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The owner of a hair salon has been ordered to pay £4,000 compensation to a Muslim stylist who was turned down for a job because she wears a headscarf.
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State lawmakers Wednesday held up voting on a resolution in recognition of a Muslim group’s upcoming convention after a legislator protested that “the Muslims do not recognize Jesus Christ as God.”
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The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people.
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Law and religion: A Sikh schoolgirl who was excluded from lessons when she refused to remove a religious bracelet should not have been told to take it off because it is a symbol of faith and not a piece of jewellery, the High Court heard. (Emphasis my own.)
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Relatives of the Srebrenica victims have filed a civil action against the Dutch government, according to a press release posted at AE’s website.
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Some of Britain’s most senior police officers have broken ranks with their colleagues to denounce government plans for detaining terrorism suspects for 42 days without charge, the Guardian can reveal.
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When told by a judge at the
show trialsmilitary tribunals in Guantanamo that his military lawyer had been provided free of charge by the US, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali responded by saying he had been tortured free of charge too.Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, meanwhile, explained his reasons for rejecting legal counsel: he thinks the U.S. Constitution allows for gay marriage. He also complained that the courtroom artist made his nose look too wide.
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Stephen Sedley, a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales, reviews Britain’s constitution (yes we do have a constitution).
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Ronald Dworkin, in his new boook The Supreme Court Phalanx, argues that Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are “guided not by political ideology or conservative judicial principle but rather by “partisan, cultural, and perhaps religious allegiance,” and disdain tradition, precedent, even careful legal reasoning.”
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Following Razib’s example of how the law in secular states inevitably support one ‘interpretation’ of religion as ‘essential’ to that identity, compared to other interpretations, here is a brief description of a German court ruling from the mid-90s:
Brandeis University’s Jytte Klausen, in her book “The Islamic Challenge,” provided the perfect example of this quandary. A German court ruled in 1995 that while Jews could be exempted from the strict laws governing animal slaughter, Muslims could not.
The rules governing Kosher slaughter and Muslim customs are similar. The Jewish authorities, when consulted by the court, were adamant that their religion absolutely required ritual slaughter. When it came to the Muslims, however, the court consulted Islamic authorities in Cairo, who told them that, in an emergency, Muslims could do without ritual slaughter.
Muslims in Germany were furious. “We are not lost in the desert, there is no emergency here,” a German Muslim told me as he gestured at the well-stocked Berlin cafÈ in which we were sitting. “If Jews can be allowed their religious customs, why not us?”
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Islamic Divorce Ruled Not Valid in Maryland. The state’s highest court unanimously ruled that “talaq” deprives the woman of due process and is contrary to the state’s public policy.
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Turkish barber living in Saudi faces execution for ’swearing at God’.
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Landmark high court ruling says decision to drop Saudi-BAE corruption investigation was unlawful.
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