Impending doom...
Keeping me awake at night.
Red Cross has asked to visit detainees at reported covert U.S. center
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=93107
European Commission to investigate reports of CIA secret prisons in Eastern Europe
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=93104
Terror trial opens in Belgium in first case following tougher new laws
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=93099
The enemy within, my parenthesis, my sarcasm:
Texas, San Antonio C.A.I.R.
An American immigrant from Pakistan, Husain is president of the San Antonio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based civil rights organization. She started a monthly newspaper, Al-Ittihaad (Unity), writes opinion columns in the Express-News, and regularly speaks to groups ranging from Texas Republicans to Our Lady of the Lake students to Mensa members.
"The news of the day is, What are the Muslims doing? Who are they killing today?" she told a room of students at Our Lady of the Lake University last month.
"Islam is the most misunderstood religion in the West." (oh, really?)
In post-9/11 America, all Muslims are under suspicion. The Patriot Act, which endowed the U.S. government with wide surveillance and detention powers, codified America's paranoia.
Since September 11, 2001, Husain, who until then operated nursing- and child-care facilities, has embarked on a mission to correct public misperceptions about Muslims: "They are not all Arabs."
(She says:) "Islam does not advocate violence, but rather, social justice."
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15501311&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6