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(December 14, 2010) Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
For the last 10 years women in Islam and their status in Muslim countries were two popular topics in Western media. Muslim women, like Irshad Manji and Ayaan Ali, have become media darlings because they wrote books smearing their religion, and called for the "liberation" of Muslim women. But when revolutionary Muslim women like Asmaa Mahfouz and Tawakkol Karman, an Egyptian and a Yemeni, recently made history by leading their countries towards dignity, democracy, liberty and social justice, both were ignored by the Western media.
The independent research centre Baseera (Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research) reported recently that after 22 months in office 79% of Egyptians still approve of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi's performance, while 13% disapprove and 8% remain undecided.
Why is Canada fighting?
As of 2017 China had 164 Unicorns - privately owned start ups valued at more than a billion dollars, for a total of $628 billion. The U.S. by comparison had 132 billion dollars plus start ups valued as $700 billion.
According to the recently published Ottawa Protocol on Combating Antisemitism, Israel is being singled out for "selective condemnation and opprobrium, [which] is discriminatory and hateful, and not saying so is dishonest."
In politics as in physics there are basic laws, if a political leader respects and follows them he will succeed but if not he will fail, often with a high price paid by the people. Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is a classic example of a failed political leader and the 92 million Egyptians are now paying a heavy price.
While anti-smoking campaigns have helped reduce cigarette smoking amongst young people in Canada, Shisha (hookah) smoking is increasing in this same age group, according researchers with the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo.
You could hardly call Islamic civilization "lost" - not in the sense of fabled Atlantis, for example -- but few people today know very much about it, or are even conscious of how many aspects of Western society owe their very existence to Islamic roots.
"Israel, A Colonial-Settler State?" is the question posed by Prof. Maxime Rodinson and the title of his book published in 1973 in which he answers the question in the affirmative.
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.