Accountability and the Court

I just finished re-reading an interesting article by Kathleen Moore, “Representation of Islam in the Language of Law: Some Recent U.S. Cases,” in Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. I quite like this article because it talks about the works of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in preserving the civil rights of Muslims. CAIR launches lawsuits on the behalf of Muslims who have faced some sort of discrimination because of their beliefs. This particular article focuses on a few cases of men who were fired/not hired because they had beards, and these…

Why The Heart And The Kidneys? – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan . Eric Holder, meanwhile, seems to act as if his job is to ignore evidence of hideous criminality in the government, rather than to prosecute it. The best explanation is that he is biding his time until the administration has more achievements under its belt. But delay itself is a violation of Geneva. As if those Conventions counted for anything any more.

Dear NRCAT supporters in the Greater New York City area: NRCAT would like to encourage you to attend the new play,ALTERNATIVE METHODS, written and produced by one of NRCAT’s supporters in Washington, DC, Patricia Davis. Pat also co-authoredThe Blindfold’s Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth, with torture survivor, Sr. Dianna Ortiz, the founder of Torture Abolition Survivors Support Coalition. The play, which “explores indefinite detention, learned helplessness, and the deep involvement of psychologists in torture,” premiers in New York City at the First Floor Theater of La MaMa on Sunday, August 15 at 8:15 PM. There will be four…