Archive for January, 2009

10Jan
2009

Nobel Prize Winner Targeted with Death Threats

By Ayesha Husain Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to be given the Nobel Peace Prize, has reported several recent death threats on her life. On April 5th, one such threat took the form of a missive sent to her office with the words, Shirin Ebadi, your death is near?. While Ebadi has been at the receiving end of such warnings for some time, the threats have recently intensified and have begun to target members of Ebadi”s family as well. [...]

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10Jan
2009

The Facts about Israel”s “War” on Gaza

by Adam Sheets, UCLA It is crucial that one has her/his facts straight about Israel”s war on Gaza. What events brought about this dreadful situation? What needs to be done to make it stop? These questions will be answered in the content of this article, using concrete facts from a variety of news sources. Let”s first investigate the recent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. The cease-fire

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10Jan
2009

USAC calls for Gaza cease-fire

By Judith Pererra of The Daily Bruin More than 75 students crowded the meeting room at Kerckhoff on Tuesday night when the Undergraduate Students Association Council passed a humanitarian resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza conflict by a vote of 8-2, with two councilmembers abstaining. The resolution, titled A Call for the Immediate End to the Recent Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza,? was sponsored by the UC Gaza Solidarity Coalition and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities, resumption [...]

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9Jan
2009

[AIDS] tAboo muslIm epiDemic expoSed

By Rabiah Rahman The world is at war. The war I speak of is not amongst nations; it is not amongst human beings. We are at war with a disease. For over 25 years leaders in science, technology and medicine have been working together to combat the international pandemic known as the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, also known as AIDS. While there have been significant advancements in prolonging the mutation of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) into the AIDS virus, [...]

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