John Joseph Jay of American Freedom Defense Initiative names as one of his “heroes and inspirations” Meir Kahane—founder of two State Department-listed Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Author William Dalrymple weighs in with a defense of Sufism and the “Ground Zero Mosque” on the Times op-ed page—but in terms that smack of a neocon strategy to groom domesticated “good” Muslims.
Colombian congressman Iván Cepeda presented a slander case against ex-President Alvaro Uribe to the World Court for his accusations that the San José de Apartadó peace community is tied to the FARC.
Hundreds of supporters of Puerto Rican independence gathered at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño in San Juan to commemorate Dolores (“Lolita”) Lebrón Sotomayor, a “mythic figure” who died at the age of 90.
The Mexican government’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) issued recommendations in the case of two graduate students killed during a gunfight between soldiers and alleged drug cartel members.
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) decided by a 9-2 vote that same-sex marriages performed in the Federal District (DF, Mexico City) are valid in all the country’s states.
Hundreds marched in Changuinola, Panama, in memory of two workers who were killed in July while protesting legislation opposed by unionists and environmental activists.
A Polisario Front official broached autonomy rather than independence for Morocco-occupied Western Sahara—even as new repression mounts against a general strike in the territory.
A couple were stoned to death for adultery in a Taliban-controlled village in northern Afghanistan, just as the Taliban is demanding a joint investigation with NATO and the UN into civilian casualties.
New York City buses will be running ads from the jingoistic American Freedom Defense Initiative attacking the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”—part of a nationwide propaganda campaign.
Moroccan protesters blockaded the border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla, effectively shutting it down. Morocco accuses Spanish police of abusing its citizens and African migrants in the territory.
Indonesian authorities charged well-known radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with aiding al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cell Jemaah Islamiyah. Bashir denies any connection to the group.
