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  • Re: So...which Islamic country do we need to invade now?

    Even though I prefer not to get into a blur of angry indignation with anyone's opinion, I would like to clarify that the ''female circumcision'' you reference is actually not circumcision, but genital mutilation. The act of circumcising the male newborn's penis involves removing or splitting the foreskin in order to expose the glans, or head, of ...
    Posted to Books by Alyxmyself on September 14, 2009

  • Prison Problems!

    I feel that many of the problems that exist in prisons are that, there aren't enough rehabilitaion programs that exist. Another problem is that, too much negativity is provoked, because many security guards there, seems to turn their heads and pretend that the problems doesn't exist. Another problem is, the time that is sentenced for a ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by ELois Poole-Clayton on June 7, 2009

  • Recent US led Afghan Airstrike Violate International Law

    International Law is explicit about civilian protection, including but not limited to Article 51, 52 and 57 of Protocol 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Violation of these articles are demonstrable by the recent U.S. raid on an Afghan Village as reported in early May of 2009. Article 51: Protection of the civilian population Paragraph ...
    Posted to War Stories by KCBWES on May 9, 2009

  • At the "heart" of the debate

    Lithwick says: The fight playing out between the left and the right now isn't ''Did we water-board?'' We already knew we did. It is barely even ''Was it legal?'' Virtually nobody seriously argues that it was. The fight we are having in America now is ''Did it work?'' She's right. Case in point: see the lead photograph and caption in a recent ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by dpopowski on April 28, 2009

  • abuse IS torture

    So much of the abuse meeted out in domestic situation is torture. Just read the description of what some of the victims went through and you would agree with me. You can find many recognizable torture techniques in these tragic narratives. The aim of domestic abuse is the same as torture perpetrated for political or simply sadistic reasons: ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by kati on April 15, 2009

  • Islam's List of Human Rights: Number 1

    The first I wanted to mention, among basic rights, is the right to be protected against: 1)Usury also called interest. That's right, read what the God says in the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad said about usury/interest- called riba` in arabic. God says he wages war on it. That means God hates usury/interest and commands that all peoples ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Usama3 on March 2, 2009

  • A Great Example

    Thanks for this fitting tribute. I heard the podcast as I was driving home to Boston from New York, and it lifted my spirits. I worked for Alison Des Forges in Rwanda for a year just after the genocide, and later did human rights missions in Burundi and Eastern Congo under her direction. I spoke with her just before her latest trip to Europe ...
    Posted to Obit by tlongman on February 18, 2009

  • Iran shows no sign of "unclenching fist"

    On the contrary, its human rights abuses seem to be escalating. Just this week the government is planning to put on trial seven Baha'i leaders who they have been holding for a year without access to lawyers. The charge is ''espionage for Israel'' and ''blasphemy'' and could quickly lead to their execution. Small detail; Baha'is don't get involved ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by jdanfort on February 15, 2009

  • No Time for Mugabe

    The ''international community'' and its mouthpiece the UN, are far too busy these days hyper ventilating over Israeli ''disproportionalism'' and Israel's criminal failure to co-operate with terrorist groups when they use their own people as human shields. Silly man. Same old.Same old.
    Posted to Fighting Words by portle44 on February 9, 2009

  • Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

    I was surprised to see that the article didn't mention Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT), another cardiac condition that also suddenly kills otherwise healthy adolescents and young athletes. We need to take more serious local, national, and international efforts in making available automated external defibrillators in ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by cprxmm77 on February 9, 2009
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