Month: November 2007
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Break an Unjust Law when Necessary; Never Commit Treason
[On Thursday, Nov. 8, Dr. Abdelhaleem Ashqar will be sentenced for refusing to testify before a grand jury and thus acquiesce in an unconscionable effort to use the American justice system into a tool of Israeli occupation.. In Dr. Ashqar’s reply to the government’s sentencing memorandum, which makes the unprecedented request that Dr. Ashqar be…
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News and Analysis (11/2/07)
“At the end of the war, Albania was the only European country with a larger Jewish population than before the war.” Jewish holocaust survivors themselves oversee opening of new photo exhibition detailing Muslims’ efforts to save Jews from Nazi extermination during WWII: Exhibition Honors Muslims Who Saved Jews (Washington Post/Associated Press) Georgetown journalism professor Asra…
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News and Analysis (11/1/07)
Mukasey’s refusal to take a stand on waterboarding as torture wins him praise from President Bush… meanwhile a former Federal district court judge argues, unlike Mukasey, that the Federal judiciary still has a strong role to play in the war on terror, without compromising national security: Bush Backs Attorney General Nominee (Washington Post) How to…
