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London Free Press, London, Ontario, Canada, 2001-08-25
The Ontario government should pull the plug on Catholic school funding and place all the money in one big public system, says the head of the high school teachers' union...
In his keynote speech to the OSSTF [Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation], [president Earl] Manners said the Tories' cuts to the public system and tax credits for private school students is undermining public education.
Webmaster's comment:
Note: The "Tories" are the ruling Progressive Conservative Party in the Canadian province of Ontario.
(See also "Ontario parents get private-school tax break", May 2001.)
Rationalist International, 2001-08-24
The Lahore High Court has admitted the appeal of Dr. Shaikh, Pakistani rationalist and founder president of "The Enlightenment", against the death sentence awarded to him for blasphemy by the Islamabad additional district and sessions court on 18 August (Saturday). Dr. Shaikh was given only one week's time to appeal in the High Court.
Rationalist International, 2001-08-19
Dr. Mohammed Younis Shaikh is convicted to death for blasphemy. The judgement was pronounced by a district court in Islamabad yesterday, 18 August (Saturday). Dr. Shaikh has been given one week's time to appeal in the high court. Usually the appeal time in similar cases is 30 days. He is kept in a narrow death cell in jail under primitive living conditions.
Dr. Shaikh, British educated physician, Pakistani rationalist and founder of the first known rationalist organisation in Pakistan "The Enlightenment" was arrested on 4 October, 2000 by Islamabad police and booked under Section 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code. Dr. Shaikh was accused to have defied the prophet Muhammed with his statement that Muhammed did not become a Muslim before the age of forty and that his parents were non-Muslims.
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