May 16, 2012
Iranian rapperĀ Shahin Najafi fled Iran in 2005, narrowly escaping a sentence of 100 lashes as well as imprisonment. He is penetrasting and irreverent in his treatment of Iran’s theocratic society, as well as its icons, His songs address both religious figures in Iran today as well as deceased imams who are revered by [...]
Tags: Iranian death threats, Iranian fatwa, Iranian rapper, Shahin Najafi
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May 13, 2012
North Korea has been misclassified for decades as a communist country. Despite this misclassification, it is in the third generation of the Kim family dynasty. In addition, to effectively being a hereditary monarchy, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is divided into zones, according to the level of political loyalty of the inhabitants. At the [...]
Tags: Kim Jong un, North Korea, North Korean concentration camps, North Korean gulag, Shin Dong hyuk
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May 7, 2012
Cheryl Bormann, who is representingĀ accused 9/11 defendant Walid bin Attash has acceded to his request that she wear a burqa while defending him in court. Not content to merely choose such attire for herself, Bormann urged the court to compel other women to dress in the same manner in order to show respect [...]
Tags: 9/11 defendants, burqa lawyers, Cheryl Bormann, Gitmo trial, Walid bin Attash
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May 6, 2012
It is a pleasure to read Drudge Report. It is a great playground, a jumping off point for a wide array of periodicals. I wish I had a twentieth of their daily readership. But they made a mistake. In reporting the victory of Francois Hollande, they incorrectly stated that he is only the second Socialist [...]
Tags: Drudge Report, Francois Hollande, Francois Mitterand, Leon Blum, Matt Drudge, Socialsit Presidents of France
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May 6, 2012
A case in the Israeli courts of an American Jewish teenager whose arrest for public urination turned into a horrifying ordeal in which he was beaten mercilessly by three Arab cops and ended up being sent to an adult prison while awaiting trial where he was gang raped is now working its way through [...]
Tags: Amir Rabah, Arab police in Israel, Ataf Barkat, Israeli prison, Kishon prison, Rimon Hinawi
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May 4, 2012
Who is Chen Guangcheng? Born in 1971,Chen was born in the small village of Dongshigu, Shandong province,which is around 200 kilometers from the city of Jinan. Because of a severe fever in infancy, Chen became blind at an early age. Until 1994 Chen was was illiterate In that year, he enrolled in Qingdao High School [...]
Tags: Chen Guangcheng and US Chinese relations, Chen Guangcheng background, Chen Guangcheng bio
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May 4, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney blasted the Obama administration for its mishandling of the asylum bid of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who is a renowned opponent of China’s policy of forced abortions. Reports reaching the public indicate that the US embassy staff worked hard at pressuring Chen to leave the embassy, out of [...]
Tags: Chen Guangcheng, Obama and China, Romney and Chen Guangcheng, Romney criticises Obama on China
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May 3, 2012
There is a whole school of humour in which men are presented as being of far lower intelligence than women. A recent article in the Daily Mail leads me to believe that there may be a grain of truth to such jokes. Mary Beard has produced a documentary called Meet The Romans, which is meant [...]
Tags: AA Gill, appearance of women on TV, Mary Beard, sexism in media
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May 2, 2012
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has revealed that a U.S. official relayed a threat by Chinese authorities to beat his wife to death if he did not leave the American embassy. By international law, as long as Chen was in the embassy, it was as though he were on American soil. Legally, Chen could have [...]
Tags: Chen Guangcheng, Chinese dissident, Hungarian dissident, Jozsef Mindszenty
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April 26, 2012
Egyptians are finding out how strange an Islamic government can. According to the London Daily Mail, the Egyptian parliament is exploring sweeping legisl;ation that would allow a man to have relations with his wife for up to six hours after her death. Additional provision reduce the age of marriage to 14 and nullify gains made [...]
Tags: Egyptian Islamic radicals, Homosexuality in Islamic law, necrophilia in Islamic law, women in Islamic law
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