Reuel S. Amdur
Reuel Amdur is a freelance writer based near Ottawa.
Terry Colin Holdbrooks was always interested in religion, though he was an agnostic till he began serving at Guantánamo as a military policeman.
When Israel decided to get rid of Palestinian workers from the Occupied Territories, it was left with the problem of who would do the low-paying dirty work. It decided on a guest worker program, bringing in people from such places as India, the Philippines, China, and Africa.
Just as the opposition to the so-called Ground Zero mosque was beginning to dissipate, it got a new boost. Some Democratic politicians who saw themselves in tight races climbed on board, albeit often with a less virulent tone than their Republican opponents. The major factor in the renewed life given to this intolerance, however, was the backtracking by President Barack Obama.
The International Development and Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian crown corporation, recently terminated a pair of three-year grants to Mada al-Carmel, an Israeli Arab social research organization. The grants were cancelled in the second year.
Alan Hart. Zionism, Vol. III. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2010. A book review.
Opposition to the building of an Islamic community centre in New York is beginning to wind down, in spite of agitation by Republican Party extremists.
According to Yuk Yuk's, Wafik Nasralla is "considered by many to be the funniest one-eyed Egyptian Canadian comic."
The kangaroos have come home to roost, at last. Eight years after Omar Khadr was captured in Afghanistan, his trial has begun, but the beginning is far from auspicious because the military judge has agreed to admit coerced confessions.
The media reported that Ottawa's St. Alban's Anglican Church was disaffiliating from the Canadian Anglican denomination over the issues of blessing same-sex unions and ordaining homosexual clergy.
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith has once again shown its loss of integrity. It has joined the bigots opposed to the construction of a Muslim community centre a couple of blocks away from the site of the World Trade Centre, which was destroyed on 9/11.
Iran: A Sense of Déjà Vu