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Nafafi, Iranian Rapper Faces Fatwa Death Threats [Videos]

May 16, 2012
Nafafi, Iranian Rapper Faces Fatwa Death Threats [Videos]

  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 [...]

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Shin Dong hyuk, North Korean Concentration Camp Escapee, Speaks Out [Video]

May 13, 2012
Shin Dong hyuk, North Korean Concentration Camp Escapee, Speaks Out [Video]

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 [...]

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Gitmo Attorney Panders To Defendants With Burqa Request

May 7, 2012
Gitmo Attorney Panders To Defendants With Burqa Request

  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 [...]

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A Note To Readers and to Matt Drudge About Francois Hollande

May 6, 2012
A Note To Readers and to Matt Drudge About Francois Hollande

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 [...]

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Immigrant To Israel Fights For Justice After Police Beatings, Gang Rape In Israeli Prison

May 6, 2012
Immigrant To Israel Fights For Justice After Police Beatings, Gang Rape In Israeli Prison

  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 [...]

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Documentary About Chen Guangcheng [Video]

May 4, 2012
Documentary About Chen Guangcheng [Video]

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 [...]

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Romney Blasts Obama on Chen Guangcheng Treatment By US [Video]

May 4, 2012
Romney Blasts Obama on Chen Guangcheng Treatment By US [Video]

  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 [...]

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British TV Critic Trashes Noted Historian, Makes Idiot of Himself

May 3, 2012
British TV Critic Trashes Noted Historian, Makes Idiot of Himself

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 [...]

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Chen Guangcheng and Jozsef Mindszenty, Two Dissidents, Two Outcomes

May 2, 2012
Chen Guangcheng and Jozsef Mindszenty, Two Dissidents, Two Outcomes

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 [...]

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Shaaria Muslim Radicals In Egypt To Legalise Necrophilia [ Sensitive Video]

April 26, 2012
Shaaria Muslim Radicals In Egypt To Legalise Necrophilia [ Sensitive Video]

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 [...]

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