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The notions of religion are different from those of society. The Islamic Religion is much more fair to women, than the back-wards notions of society.
A lot of injustice was heaped upon women in our Islamic world, and usually religion is the accused, but I do not see it as the real reason.

South Carolina has become a clearing house for select enemies of the Bush administration. Cases are handled in a new courthouse, named after the 100 year old bigot Strom Thurmond. They are prosecuted by his son, J. Strom Thurmond Junior. The latest cause celebre' to come their way is Jose Padilla.
The world awaits the granting of a writ of habeus corpus in the Padilla case. This could have been granted last year, but a slim majority of the supreme court decided to remand the case to South Carolina where Padilla has been chained to a wall in a navy brig for 2 and a half years without being charged with any crime.

The lawsuit, filed by the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch, alleges that participants from industry effectively became members of the task force formulating the White House's industry-friendly energy recommendations, while environmental groups and others were shut out of the meetings.

Please realize that even with all of the voter suppression documented in this film, Kerry was still ahead in the exit polls in the evening of
Nov. 2 - and in the early morning hours the voting machines needed to be tweaked to give Bush the lead. That means Kerry actually won by a large margin.

As 2004 came to a close, Ronnie Earle, district attorney in Travis County Texas, made gains in pursuing associates of US House Majority leader Tom DeLay for illegal corporate fundraising. Eight corporations have been indicted: several have had their indictments dismissed on the basis of having been misled by the fundraisers. At least one of the corporations indicted, Sears Roebuck & Co, will be cooperating with the prosecution.