Copyright 2012 Stonegate Institute Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:01:03 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Stonegate Institute :: Writings http://www.stonegateinstitute.org webmaster@stonegateinstitute.org (Stonegate Institute) webmaster@stonegateinstitute.org en-us http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2811/italy-mosque-wars Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:00:00 EST The southern Italian island of Sicily is about to become the proud new owner of a multi-million euro mega-mosque. The mosque, to be built in the medieval town of Salemi in southwestern Sicily, is being paid for by the oil-rich Persian Gulf Emirate of http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2814/fatah-young-leadership Fri, 3 Feb 2012 04:30:00 EST Fatah leaders in the West Bank announced this week that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is their only candidate for the presidential election expected to take place in May 2012. The announcement enraged several disillusioned Fatah http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2815/brazil-iran Fri, 3 Feb 2012 03:30:00 EST Relations between Brazil and Iran are shaky. In an interview with the Brazilian paper Folha de Sao Paulo, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who has worked as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top media adviser, declared that the Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, is http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2813/turkey-warns-europe-against-mounting-racism Fri, 3 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday warned of rising racism and Islamophobia in Europe as he once again denounced a recent French bill outlawing denial of Armenian genocide. The French bill is a "serious manifestation of an insidious http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2812/friends-seminary-gilad-atzmon Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:30:00 EST The Friends Seminary in New York, which made the God-awful mistake in judgment of twice inviting Gilad Atzmon to meet with its students, has now acknowledged that it was wrong to do so and has promised never again to allow that bigot to set foot on its http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2809/new-york-times-backs-islamist-movement Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:00:00 EST It seems strange that a newspaper as well-respected as the New York Times would publish an article, "In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims," by Michael Powell that calls a documentary, The Third Jihad, Islamophobic without discussing its http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2810/surrender-to-saudi-fundamentalism Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:45:00 EST An official of the Saudi Youth Welfare Presidency quickly denied media reports that the organization had allowed women to enter stadium to watch the handball championship, being held in Jeddah -- according to the Arab News. The Director of the http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2805/china-zhu-yufu-sham-incitement-trial-no-verdict Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:00:00 EST Zhu Yufu, 59, a Hangzhou dissident who previously served seven years in prison (1999-2006) for his role in founding the China Democratic Party, was tried by the Hangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court today for "inciting subversion of state power http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2808/newt-gingrich-space-policy Thu, 2 Feb 2012 03:20:00 EST If anyone thinks that the Obama administration space policy has been successful, he should simply read this tweet from the well-known astrophysicist and Director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, Neil Degrasse Tyson: "Has the first person to set foot on http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2807/britain-bans-iran-press-tv Thu, 2 Feb 2012 03:15:00 EST The British broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, has finally done what it was long urged, and banned Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster. The station is a rolling English language news channel owned by state-controlled Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2806/turkey-rejoices-as-genocide-bill-put-on-hold-in Thu, 2 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST Turkey has hailed a motion by French legislators to halt a bill criminalizing denials of Armenian genocide claims after they produced the 60 signatures required to stop the draft from becoming law. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan extended http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2803/hizb-ut-tahrir-sharia Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:00:00 EST Last week the government of Bangladesh announced that it had foiled a potential military coup led by the radical Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir ["Party of Liberation"]. Brigadier General Muhammed Masud Razzaq told a press conference in the capital, Dhaka, http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2800/venezuela-socialism-iphones-dollars Wed, 1 Feb 2012 04:00:00 EST Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez angered Venezuelans again. This time, it was Chavez's young daughter, Rosines, who was responsible for the new scandal. The 14-year-old posted a picture of herself online holding a handful of U.S. dollars -- an event http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2804/yerevan-wants-turkey-out-of-karabakh-solution Wed, 1 Feb 2012 03:00:00 EST If Turkey wants to help, it should stay out of the process to solve the Karabakh issue, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan has said, in response to Turkish officials' remarks that France should drop its leadership of the Minsk Group, a panel http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2796/muslims-ban-dogs-europe Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 EST A Dutch Muslim politician has called for a ban on dogs in The Hague, the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are "unclean" animals, and some say the call to ban them in Holland and elsewhere represents an