Pakistani men sentenced to life for burying women alive:
Another defendant involved in the case was sentenced to six months in prison, while 16 defendants were acquitted of the so-called “honor killings.”
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thabet
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abunoor
When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison camp at Guantánamo “shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” Obama has failed to fulfill his promise. Some prisoners are being charged with crimes, others released, but the date for closing the camp seems to recede steadily into the future. Furthermore, new evidence now emerging may entangle Obama’s young administration with crimes that occurred during the Bush presidency, evidence that suggests the current administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006.
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johnpi
At a Houston high school, a Pakistan-born teen allegedly hired a Somali-born teen to murder his mother. Now both are in jail awaiting trial on capital (death penalty if convicted) murder charges.
The motive?
Investigators say Minhas simply didn’t want to follow her house rules.
“These were not unusual restrictions- curfew, be home at night, stay off the freeway- very simple rules any parent that’s responsible would ask their child to do,” said Harris.
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johnpi
Two ex-Blackwater staff charged with Afghan murders.
Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, have been charged with second-degree murder following the shooting deaths of the two Afghan men.
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johnpi
Blackwater shooting charges all dismissed by judge.
A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in a crowded Baghdad intersection in 2007.
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buzz
Serial Killer - Christian
Did anyone ask what role religion played in this man’s murder spree? Dennis Rader bound, tortured and killed his victims while pleasuring himself sexually.
He worked closely with police forces, wore a badge, cited citizens for compliance issues with pets, etc., he was a scout master with the boy scouts and was president of his Church congregation where he attended weekly. He was actually captured on evidence found on his church’s computer.
Did anyone ask how his Christian beliefs played into his crimes?
None that I can remember. Muslims owe the same explanation with Hassan. None.
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johnpi
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thabet
Perhaps Yvonne Ridley will turn up on the BBC and complain about the lack of coverage this murder of a member of an ethnic/religious minority in a European city has received?
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thabet
An Egyptian woman, who was killed in a German courtroom by a man she was suing for insulting her, was three months pregnant.
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razib, murtad fitri
the murder-suicide involving steve mcnair and a kurdish american woman might put the spotlight on the kurdish community in tennessee. to be honest i think the story will make more of a media impact since it isn’t *just* black-on-black crime (imagine if nicole brown simpson had been black).
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thabet
Al Qaeda’s North African wing said on Wednesday it had carried out its threat to kill a British hostage it was holding in the Sahara.
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thabet
US abortion doctor is shot dead.
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Fatemeh
A bomb made by jail inmates to blow up Muslim prisoners came within moments of exploding outside a prayer meeting.
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thabet
27 people go on trial in France charged with the kidnap, torture, and murder of a Jewish man.
The gang leader of the group charged with the crimes shouted ‘God is great’ in Arabic as he entered the court room.
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thabet
A US army soldier has been found guilty of murdering four Iraqis who were blindfolded and bound up.
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Kawthar
An Azeri immigrant in Russia was charged with hiring hitmen to murder his daughter for wearing a miniskirt. [Over 90% of the population of Azerbaijan is Muslim]
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Kawthar
An Ahmadi couple was brutally murdered in Pakistan
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shahed
Anti-dawah: Muzammil Hassan founded Bridges TV in 2004 to help improve the image of Islam and Muslims. It is a noble effort, but it represents years of well-intentioned work that will likely be overshadowed by his arrest yesterday on suspicion of beheading his estranged wife.
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thabet
US soldier is jailed “for conspiracy to murder four Iraqi men in April 2007″.
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thabet
A Pakistani televangelist and former MQM politician called for the killing of Ahmadis on television. Two people were killed shortly after the broadcast.
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thabet
Three men have been found guilty of a “massive terrorist conspiracy to murder involving home-made bombs”.
This was a huge case and not all the men charged (eight were standing trial) were found guilty. The BBC has a matrix of the charges.
Some incisive commentary as ever from Septic Isle and Craig Murray.
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thabet
The killers of two men in eastern Germany are thought to be neo-Nazis with previous convictions for similar attacks, “and yet there has been no public outcry about the two cases”.
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thabet
A Muslim man, who endured years of racial abuse from a British National Party activist neighbour, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for killing him.
Related: A (very) brief note on race and crime in the context of another murder involving ‘race’.
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thabet
Police say the murder of Mohammad al-Majed, a 16 year old Qatari studying English in Hastings, was racially motivated. The uncle of the murdered student has said his nephew had complained of ‘hostility towards Arabs’.
The Independent claims Hastings, which has a large number of foreign students, has an “inordinately high number of race-related attacks” (although no source is cited). Recording ‘race crimes’ will always be difficult.
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thabet
Jim David Adkisson has admitted to shooting two people dead in a church which promoted liberal views. He reportedly told the police “the Democrats had tied his country’s hands in the war on terror and [...] had ruined every institution in America”, but since he was unable to kill the leaders he targetted “those that had voted them into office”.
