Five American Muslims “monitored by the NSA and FBI have all led highly public, outwardly exemplary lives. All five vehemently deny any involvement in terrorism or espionage, and none advocates violent jihad or is … implicated in any crime, despite years of intense scrutiny by the government and … press”:<\/p>\n
… and one of the victims, and Bush administration official speaks out, protesting that he is “a very conservative, Reagan-loving Republican,”\u00c2\u00a0who sent his children to Catholic school, and who has never voiced “any ill feelings toward the United States,” …<\/p>\n
… meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Committee will review an issue of the surveillance issue in Japan, where Muslims are solely “profiled based on their religion without any indication of criminal activity or any connection to wrongdoing”:<\/p>\n
“If corporations have religious rights that warrant protection under the law, why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t men imprisoned at Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay? A federal judge has given the US government until Tuesday evening to answer that question”:<\/p>\n
As it escalates its conflict with the Palestinians, Israel continues to defy the International Law, violates human rights and attempts to discredit the families of the victims and the eyewitnesses. As Israel pursues\u00c2\u00a0 collective punishment, it targets more civilians by systematic violation of human rights …<\/p>\n
… “And yet, to point out that one side suffers disproportionately \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the side that is weaker of the two and doesn’t have a state of its own \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is treated by many in Israel and among its friends abroad as the height of bias”:<\/p>\n
The\u00c2\u00a0execution of 13 Sunni Muslim clerics last month in Mosul constitutes “a very clear case of atrocities committed against their own people, against religious leaders from Sunni Islam who probably have a less simplistic understanding of what Islam means\u00e2\u20ac\u009d …<\/span><\/p>\n … while amid the escalating violence in which unidentified civilians are killed, …<\/p>\n … ISIS has captured the town of Muthanna, taking control over “control of a vast former\u00c2\u00a0 chemical weapons facility north-west of Baghdad” :<\/p>\n\n
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