Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian following an operation in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar (MaanImages/File) Israeli court rules against bail for Beit Ummar teens Published today (updated) 26/03/2012 21:14 HEBRON (Ma’an) — An Israeli court ruled to keep seven children from Beit Ummar behind bars until the end of their trial, a lawyer and community [...]
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Two children were killed Tuesday as a mortar left by Israeli forces exploded near Hebron, medics and police said. Hamza Zayed Jaradat, 12, and Zayed Juma Jaradat, 12, were killed in the blast in Wadi Reem, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank, medics told Ma’an. Hebron police chief Ramadan Awad [...]
by Franklin Lamb Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Dahiyeh, South Beirut, Lebanon February 14, 2012 Rushing to an appointment last Saturday I passed the Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Hassaniyeh (Mosque), which for many in my immediate Dahiyeh neighborhood is the [...]
Newburgh Four member James Cromitie is led away by police. At trial, the judge said Cromitie was a man ‘whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope’. (Photograph: Robert Mecea/AP)Hussain was flash, drove expensive cars and treated people to gifts of cash and food. He also had radical opinions that stood out in a mosque [...]
An Australian man has been sentenced to 500 lashes and a year in jail in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of blasphemy. Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images An Australian man has been sentenced to 500 lashes and a year in a Saudi Arabian jail after being convicted of blasphemy, according to officials. The 45-year-old man, identified [...]
Protesters from all social strata took part in the battle of Muhammad Mahmoud Street [EPA] Cairo, Egypt - “The people in Muhammad Mahmoud are decidedly not revolutionaries, they are vandals,” a police captain insisted in a phone-in to Yusri Foda’s prime TV show Akhir Kalam. The officer in the video had a point. Four days into what [...]
Fishermen pictured off Gaza’s coast. (MaanImages/file) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained eight fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip and took them to an unknown destination, a Palestinian union official said Tuesday. Mahfouz al-Kabarety, head of the Palestinian society for fishing and marine sports, said the navy seized two fishing boats on [...]
Unions in Gaza strictly prohibit the use of child labor, and refuse licenses to any businesses that exploit children. GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — After a decade of intifada, siege and war, the Gaza Strip has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world, and many families with no source of income now send [...]
Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban Saudi women are forced to rely on live-in drivers or male relatives to drive them to work, the shop or the doctor because of the ban. Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP Shaima Jastaina sentenced to 10 lashes after being found guilty of driving without permission reddit this [...]
FBI Teaching Counter-Terror Agents Anti-Muslim Fear by John Glaser, September 14, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no [...]
Palestinian fisherman work on their boats in the port off Gaza City, Nov. 8, 2008 [MaanImages/Hatem Omar] Israeli forces detain 8 fishermen off Gaza coast Published Sunday 11/09/2011 (updated) 12/09/2011 11:17 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Sunday detained eight fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, locals told Ma’an. Locals said Israeli naval [...]
Muhammad behind the wall: ‘Now, I am Nobody.’ (Mats Svensson) By Mats Svensson I have visited Muhammad around sixty times. But it is only now that we begin to really talk to each other. Seven years ago, I met Muhammad for the first time. I was then out on one of my long weekend walks. [...]
