Religion & Law

Radical Islamism and the New Libyan Government
(Ilya Somin) CNN has an interesting article about Abdul Hakeem Belhaj, a radical Islamist who is a prominent leader of the Libyan rebels whom the US and its allies have supported against Gaddafi...

AUSTIN BAY: Islamist Mensheviks Versus Islamist Bolsheviks Egypts Next Crisis Key: The 1979
AUSTIN BAY: Islamist Mensheviks Versus Islamist Bolsheviks — Egypt’s Next Crisis? Key: “The 1979 Iranian Revolution began as a popular rebellion against the authoritarian Shah...

Islamist stops university debate with threats of violence
A talk on sharia and human rights by NSS Council Member Anne Marie Waters' at Queen Mary College, London was cancelled at the last moment because of an Islamist who made serious threats against everyone there.

Islam or Islamist
Islam or Islamist? That is the question. Is the term 'Islamist' a politically incorrect fabrication to dodge the inconvenient truth that Islam itself is inherently and inevitably chauvinistic and totalitarian? Or is it a necessary distinction to draw: denominating supremacist Muslims striving to impose on societies a classical, rigid construction of Islamic law, distinguishing them from authentic Muslim moderates who elevate reason, embrace pluralism, and take sharia as spiritual guidance rather than the mandatory law for civil society? I think we have to separate Islamists from Islam...

Niger parliament passes new anti-terror law to counter Tuareg rebels
[JURIST] The National Assembly of Niger [official website, in French] passed new anti-terrorism legislation Saturday aimed at helping security forces combat the resurgence of an ethnic Tuareg rebellion [BBC backgrounder] that has thrown the West African country into in a state of disarray...

Islamist Insurgents Take Somalian Seaport
Islamist insurgents have expanded the area they control in Somalia. Today's New York Times reports that Islamist guerrillas took over Merka, and important seaport 60 miles south of Mogadishu...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Katrina Flood Victims Agree $20 Million Settlement
Katrina Flood Victims Agree $20 Million Settlement

Tax Jurisdictions
Midland County et al. agree to $137 million settlement in property tax dispute.

Transit Technicians Scam
Two Municipal Transportation Agency agree to pay $287,000 settlement for stealing money from fare boxes.

Fuel Surcharges
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic agree to $200 million price fixing class action settlement.

Serial Killer
Hospitals agree to confidential wrongful death settlement for employing former registered nurse Charles Cullen.

Restraining Chair
Santa Cruz County agree to $3 million wrongful death settlement after an inmate died while in jail.