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 Profiling
and Police Brutality:
Still a 911 for Blacks
New Jersey activists say state is Ground Zero!
NEWARK�Like a number of domestic
issues, racial profiling and police brutality have taken a back seat to
the war on terrorism since September 11, 2001. Activists, however, say a
lack of media focus does not mean serious violations have ended.
�What I am hearing from my people is that in the post September 11
environment, racial profiling and police brutality problems are getting
worse,� said Ron Hampton, president of the National Black Police
Association, who is based in Washington, D.C. In particular, he has heard
of increased profiling of Blacks at airports and at border crossings
between Canada and Detroit.
 Improved
prospects for peace in Sudan?
KHARTOUM�Peace can break out in Sudan
if any of several initiatives underway to end Africa�s longest on-going
rebellion are successful. Ironically, the Sudanese government, rebels
fighting the war in southern regions of this, Africa�s largest country, as
well as independent observers all agree that the expected return of U.S.
Special Envoy John Danforth on Jan. 13 is one of the more hopeful signs.
The Clinton administration�s agenda sought to topple Sudan�s National
Islamic Front government, several Sudanese officials recently complained
to members of a delegation of Blacks from the United States.
 Muslim
leaders convene under theme Islam and A Future World of Peace
JAKARTA�Muslim leaders, scholars
and representatives from around the world gathered here recently in the
capital city of Indonesia and called for the immediate cessation of the
mischievous attacks and malicious linkage of Islam by the avowed
antagonists of Islam in the media to the horrendous terrorist Sept. 11
attacks on the United States. All participants at the two-day summit
concurred that justice for Muslims and all the world�s oppressed peoples
is the primordial factor in eliminating terrorism, which is not the
monopoly of any ethnicity or religion.
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