Archive for June 26th, 2008
North Korea is preparing itself to hand over its nuclear data
This is what BBC reports. We will see the data NK hands out in the end. And in what conditions. Experts say they would not hand out their efforts to obtain a uranium enrichment, but if they hand out the report -even without that data- they will take NK out of the countries who are patronising terrorism. 
Looks like it has handed out those data to China…
Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei said North Korea was poised to “submit its nuclear declaration to the chair of the six-party talks and the United States will implement its obligations to remove the designation of [North Korea] as a state sponsor of terrorism.”
I would like to know if China knew those data in advance…
Don’t criticise Sharia Law in UNHRC: it’s forbidden
That is. Looks like someone tried to discuss if Islam was promoting the FGM, honor killings and minors’ marriages, so Pakistan, Iran and Egypt protested and the UNHRC just concluded that no one should critisize Islam except it was an Islamic “scholar”.
Pakistan’s Siddiqui added: “I would like to state again that this is not the forum to discuss religious sensitivity.”
Why is that the UNHRC is not the right place to discuss about the effects of a “religious sensitivity” on HR?
The Counterterrorism Blog via scaramouche considers that this shows again what the key to control for Islamists is – in this case, the control of ideas, thoughts and words of an organization whose target is promoting HR.
On other news related to freedom of expression and Islamists:
a) Danish courts have rejected a suit against Jyllands-Posten about Mohammed cartoons. According to Saudi-based OIC, this rejection will increase “Islamophobia”, that is, fear or dislike of Islam, which they maintain it exists in the West.
b) Also International Amnesty has been accused of protecting two Tunisian guys who wanted to murder Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists.
“There is an effort under way to empty Middle East of Christians”
That is what, Shlemon Barduni, the Auxiliar Bishop of Baghdad has said.
According to the bishop, “The war has destroyed everything and even the tradition of coexistence. One-third of Christians have fled the country because of threats, abuse and violence.” (…) However, the bishop continued, we should not forget that “our young people have no hope, they are not accepted. A fleeing Iraqi is taboo.
Yes, it’s a taboo, whatever their nationality. To consider what this mean you can read the story of this Iraqi translator of US Army (via John). A Kurd-Iraqi national, he lost all his family in the Saddam’s chemical attack to Halabja in 1988; during the last years his true family have been the US Marines. He fled to US because he was receiving death threats. The good consideration here is that he had his residence denied because of… being a terrorist. So he can be expelled (if he has not been yet and he would have to go back to Irak.
The Afghan-Pakistani problem
An interesting post in IBA about how the situation is evolving:
The kidnapping and later release of several Christians from a hospital, according to some, from their own place of worship according to others (kidnapping about which the Taliban later “apologized“) and the Talibans already making people shut their shops in Peshawar, made the people discuss if a declaration of red state was necessary.
More from Noblesse Oblige:
Bill Roggio has more on the latest predator strike inside Pakistan Saturday that might have been targetting Baitullah. Also note that Pakistan has alluded to a combined arms capability of using unarmed drone guided missles remotely fired from their Helicopter gunships and that some predators do take off from Peshawar.
You can also read Thanos’ comments:
Pakistan knows (…) that the Waziristans are their own little countries right now, they aren’t “semi-autonomous tribal regions” since Baitullah united the Pakistan Taliban into Tehreek Taliban Pakistan. (TTP)
He’s setting up as a regional Warlord in the Waziristans, as has happened many times in the past in that region. (E.G. the most recent Mehsud or Masud uprising was against the British post WW I they came in a series about 1912- 1930 if I recall right, the Brits brought in the Ghurkas to put that down.)
“We Must Recover our Christian Nerve Before our Judeo-Christian Heritage is Lost”
Those are the words that Rochester Bishop, Nazir-Ali, has told to the Anglican Conservative Leaders in a speech.
He spoke for 45 minutes without a script, mirroring the style of the Archbishop of Canterbury who often relies on a lone Post-It when delivering lengthy speeches, and touched on a number of issues, such as converting Muslims, which pleased the Anglicans from Nigeria, a country that has experienced violent conflicts between the two religions.
It’s interesting to consider that the Nigerian Anglicans were pleased with his speech, specially because Nigeria is a Muslim country.
To know more about Bishop Nazir-Ali, please read this link in Wikipedia:
In November 2006 Nazir-Ali criticised the “dual psychology” of some Muslims who seek both “victimhood and domination”. He said it would never be possible to satisfy all of the demands made by Muslims because “their complaint often boils down to the position that it is always right to intervene when Muslims are victims… and always wrong when Muslims are the oppressors or terrorists”.
(…)In January 2008 Nazir-Ali wrote that Islamic extremism had turned “already separate communities into ‘no-go’ areas” and claimed that there had been attempts to “impose an ‘Islamic’ character on certain areas”, citing the amplification of the call to prayer from mosques as an example[11]. He criticised the government’s integration policy as “an agenda which still lacks the underpinning of a moral and spiritual vision”, and asked that the government make a public affirmation of the “Christian roots of British society”.
