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27 May 2010, 11:20 am
Many of the people in our law firm's investigative unit are former police and state law enforcement officers, FBI, ICE, and DEA agents with whom I worked and developed a close bond.JDSupra: While Miami vice may not be what it was in the 1980s, South Florida still ranks as a mecca for financial fraud and international monetary intrigue. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 12:08 am
There is a belief, specifically amongst associates, that going in-house is the “mecca” because it will give you back some semblance of a work/life balance. [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 7:20 am
The last several years have been a lead-up to Miami’s emergence as a technology mecca. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 5:36 am
The court may be aware that Carmel had become a meeting place-a mecca-for the hippies who had become disenchanted with the Haight-Ashbury and Berkeley. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 3:00 am
“I was told to park my car facing Mecca. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 4:38 pm
In their efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic, governments around the world are rolling out body-worn devices (“wearables”) to assist in fighting the virus. [read post]
28 May 2017, 7:00 am
Earlier this year, Iran and Saudi Arabia held a first round of talks on resolving outstanding issues preventing Iranian pilgrims from attending the Hajj this year, and a few weeks ago they reached a compromise allowing Iranian pilgrims to return to Mecca. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 12:35 pm
Each person on his own must strive to have his good works and pilgrimages to Mecca hopefully outweigh his failings, in order to receive forgiveness from Allah and admission into Paradise.In recent years, the growth of Christianity in Egypt has far outpaced the growth of Islam. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 9:45 am
This is because Saudi Arabia—which oversees and manages Islam's two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina—has made it impossible for them to go,” reads the lede of one typical article from Qatar’s Al-Jazeera, under the provocative headline, “No Hajj for Qataris this year amid Saudi dispute. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 11:25 am
On Friday, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced an agreement to cease certain forms of economic espionage via cyberattack. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 1:03 pm
In Saudi Arabia, a stampede has killed over 700 in Mina, a desert plane used to house pilgrims travelling to nearby Mecca for the annual Hajj. [read post]
9 Dec 2018, 7:00 am
When he was a young child, his family moved to Mecca where he was educated in an Islamic school. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 7:41 am
This evolution in the Qu'ran corresponded with the Mohammed's move from Mecca, where he had lived in accordance with treaties he had made with Jewish tribes, to Medina, where he spent much of the last ten years of his life at war with both fellow Arabs and Jews, and in robbing caravans for their riches.Another unique principle espoused in the Qu'ran is that of "deception", or taqqiyah. [read post]
14 Jun 2016, 12:16 pm
The Journal also explains that Mateen had traveled to Saudi Arabia in both 2011 and 2012 to visit the holy site of Mecca. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 4:17 am
Dep’t of Justice, Justice Department Settles Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Berkeley School District in Illinois (Oct. 13, 2011), available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/October/11-crt-1362.html; Eugene Volokh, $75,000 Settlement for Muslim Teacher Denied 19 Days’ Unpaid Leave for Hajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca), The Volokh Conspiracy (Oct. 14, 2011, 10:05 PM),… [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 7:00 am
JuD Messaging In its campaign to generate public support for Pakistani military assistance to Saudi Arabia, JuD’s messaging has pushed five themes: 1) it is the duty of all Muslims to defend Saudi Arabia, as it is the home of the two holiest sites in Islam; 2) the crisis in Yemen is the result of a Jewish-Crusader alliance out to destroy the Muslim holy places; 3) the Houthi rebels plan to attack imminently and thus Saudi Arabia is fighting a defensive war to protect the sacred sites; 4) the… [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 2:41 am
Antonin Scalia also tested the limits of Luis’s rule, describing a scenario in which a defendant is “a devout Muslim” who “makes an annual trip to Mecca every year. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 11:22 am
What's a high court to do when its peculiar reading of the state's peculiarly long statute of limitations has caused that state's courts to become a Mecca for stale lawsuits from around the country? [read post]
24 Jul 2016, 5:19 pm
They took his approach, the flamboyantly gay conservative, at face value, lapping up his diatribes against political correctness and Islam, especially, and somewhat surreally, his lengthy and graphic jokes about [phrase omitted], especially the one about doing it while facing Mecca (a complete video of his speech can be found here, very much NSFW). [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 10:08 am
The one that comes to my mind is the campaign we had initiated and coordinated to shed the light on the illegal arrests and torture of Muslim youth in Hyderabad, [the capital of Andhra Pradesh] in the aftermath of Mecca Masjid and Twin Bombings in 2007. [read post]
