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  • India: Shameless failure of state to control Hindu supremacists

    5 September 2008, by siawi

    Wherever you look from Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Orissa fundamentalist Hindus are at work. Take the Christian killings in Kandhamal, Orissa. Rampaging Hindu mobs brandishing guns, swords, bombs and stuff targeted Christians. Thousands of Christian homes, scores of churches and several convents were destroyed. We won’t get to know the exact figures till much later — if ever. We have really hit rock bottom

  • Pakistan’ North West - Can the regions ’democrats’ stem the power of Taliban

    4 September 2008, by siawi
    Pakistan ’bordering on chaos’ - 03 Aug 08
    Pakistan is battling Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the country’s tribal regions, a problem compounded by the porous border with Afghanistan.
    Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna reports on this shared, troubled  (...)

  • France : Dérive populiste de gauche et dérive populiste d’extrême droite

    2 septembre 2008
    Les troubles qui ont lieu de temps en temps dans nos banlieues nous font rappeler celles, de novembre 2005. On se souvient que les militants de gauche s’étaient une fois de plus divisés à cette occasion.
    Les uns, imbus d’un marxisme superficiel et  (...)

  • Why is the Pope afraid of Martin Kippenberger’s frog?

    1 September 2008, by siawi
    Vatican needs more faith in modernism
    The Pope’s call to cover up Kippenberger’s crucified frog betrays the Catholic church’s tradition of appreciating modern art
    by Jonathan Jones, blogs.guardian.co.uk, September 1, 2008
    Martin Kippenberger’s  (...)

  • Pakistan ought to bury the male chauvinist tribal customs

    31 August 2008, by siawi
    Book the defenders of Honour Killings
    A compliation of media editorials, commentary, protests and appeals from a human and womens’ rights organisations [new update on 4 September 2008]
    Contents:
    Murders and musings (Sarah Humayun)
    No ’honour’  (...)

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