January 22, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks
Events:
(U.S.) Washington DC: 2000 Coptic Christians Rally Outside White House on January 21
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/free-copts-rally-white-house/
-- Video of Copt Rally in Front of White House - January 21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3trAwfk92I&
Newslinks:
Pakistan Army does not share plans: US
-- Dawn: "The Pakistani army does not inform Washington of its plans before launching operations against Taliban militants along its western border, a senior US military official said."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/12-pakistan-army-does-not-share-plans-us-210--bi-08
Pakistan to halt new offensives for 6 months to 1 year - video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34975120#34975120
Pakistan: ditching "strategic depth"
http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2010/01/20/pakistan-ditching-strategic-depth/
-- Dawn: "Defining 'strategic depth'"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/columnists/14-defining-strategic-depth-910
-- February 2009 - Pakistan Tribune: "Reviving strategic depth policy"
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?211573
-- March 2002 - Pakistan Newsline: "Strategic Depth Reviewed"
http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsMarch2002/viewpoint.htm
Pakistan: Nuclear Pakistan risks turning 'radical'
http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/22/nuclear-pakistan-risks-turning-radical.htm
Pakistan: "Dr A Q Khan faces threat to his life: Malik"
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/12-security-of-nscientists-stepped-up-khan-faces-threat-to-his-life-malik-210--bi-07
Pakistan: 'No guarantee against repeat of Mumbai-like attacks'
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-gates-warns-of-militant-havens-ahead-of-pakistan-visit-ss-02
-- Pak can't guarantee against repeat of 26/11 in India: Gilani to US
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Pak-cant-guarantee-against-repeat-of-26/11-in-India-Gilani-to-US/articleshow/5489140.cms
Pak lawmakers condemn Gates for 26/11-attack statement
-- "that it would be hard to prevent India from attacking Pakistan if 26/11-type terror attack is repeated in future"
http://www.littleabout.com/news/60742,pak-lawmakers-condemn-gates-2611-attack-statement.html
(Pakistan/U.S.) Gates: 'Trust Deficit' in Pakistan -- Gates views there is a "very real... trust deficit" between Pakistan and U.S.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704509704575018334096246888.html
(Pakistan/U.S.) Robert Gates: US regrets 'grave mistakes' in Pakistan -- before 9/11 attacks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7052049/Robert-Gates-US-regrets-grave-mistakes-in-Pakistan.html
(Pakistan/U.S.) US to supply Pakistan with 12 Shadow unarmed drones: Gates
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/pakistan/US-to-supply-Pak-with-12-Shadow-unarmed-drones/Article1-500589.aspx
(Pakistan/U.S.) 'Blackwater, DynCorp working in Pakistan'
-- Pakistan Daily Times: "Gates conceded that US security companies Blackwater and DynCorp are operating in Pakistan in private capacities. He said the companies would comply with Pakistani laws."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\22\story_22-1-2010_pg1_1
(Pakistan) New video shows Tahir Yuldashev still alive -- leader of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\22\story_22-1-2010_pg7_4
(AfPak) U.S. State Dept: Release of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy
-- Clinton: "top priority to elevate the role of diplomacy and development"
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135515.htm
-- U.S. State Department Full Document (PDF) -- "Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy"
-- by the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan -- January 2010
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/135728.pdf
--- Full document states: "Reintegration is the absorption back into Afghan society of the local insurgent commanders and their followers, most of whom have no links to al-Qaeda or any extremist political agenda."
--- "we have reiterated our support for Afghan-led efforts to reintegrate Taliban who renounce al-Qaeda, cease violence, and agree to participate in the constitutional process"
--- "Funding requirements will likely exceed $100 million per year for several years."
(Afghanistan) Dawn: "New US strategy to re-integrate Taliban"
-- Dawn: "The United States on Friday announced plans to re-integrate Taliban insurgents back into the mainstream, with the process envisaged to achieve success by July 2011, a timeframe matching US plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan."
-- "If the strategy goes according to US plans, a limited number of groups and individuals will be reintegrated by December 2010, reducing the size of the security problem."
-- "While the US green-signalled back-channel talks through Saudi Arabia and Pakistan with the Taliban, they will now be officially re-integrated according to a statement issued from the office of special envoy Richard Holbrooke."
-- "A cell will be set up in the US Embassy in Kabul to coordinate efforts, with a budgetary allocation of $100 million."
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-new-us-strategy-to-re-integrate-taliban-ss-02
(Afghanistan) Karzai wants to pay Taliban to lay down their arms
-- AFP: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai unveiled an ambitious Western-funded plan Friday to offer money and jobs to tempt Taliban fighters to lay down their arms in an effort to quell a crippling insurgency."
-- "Karzai's plan echoed similar proposals by Washington to try and bring low and mid-level extremists back into mainstream society, but the leadership of Islamist insurgent groups remain hostile to negotiations."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100122/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest
-- Afghanistan's Karzai moots Taliban peace scheme
--- BBC: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told the BBC he plans to introduce a scheme to attract Taliban fighters back to normal life by offering money and jobs."
--- "He would offer to pay and resettle Taliban fighters to come over to his side, with the scheme funded by the international community."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8473215.stm
(Afghanistan) U.S. Defense Secretary Gates sees room for Taliban in Afghan government
-- Gates: “We and our many allies are increasing our capabilities in Afghanistan to try and change the momentum and bring the Taliban, those elements of the Taliban that are willing to reconcile, into the government”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4dafa9e0-0722-11df-a9b7-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
(AfPak) MSNBC: "Gates: Taliban part of Afghan 'political fabric'"
-- On Pakistan visit, defense secretary says U.S. doesn't want bases in country
-- U.S Defense Secretary Gates told AFP: "The Taliban, we recognize, are part of the political fabric of Afghanistan at this point ... The question is whether they are prepared to play a legitimate role in the political fabric of Afghanistan going forward, meaning participating in elections, meaning not assassinating local officials and killing families."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34995797/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
(Afghanistan) Daily Telegraph: "Robert Gates dismisses Afghan claim that reconciliation will tame Taliban"
-- Telegraph quotes Gates: "'while "reconciliation and reintegration are critical to a resolution of the conflict in Afghanistan' this was unlikely to happen until Nato forces achieved greater military success."
-- Gates: "Reconciliation has to be a part of the ultimate conclusion here, just as it was in Iraq. Whether that could include Mullah Omar, I frankly question whether that's realistic."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7029181/Robert-Gates-dismisses-Afghan-claim-that-reconciliation-will-tame-Taliban.html
--- October 2008: Gates "endorsed efforts to reach out to members of the Taliban"
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/109.html#Gates
(Afghanistan) Bloomberg: "Taliban Won't Give Up Until Karzai Gets Upper Hand, Gates Says"
-- Bloomberg reports: "'Reconciliation will come slowly,' Gates told reporters during a trip to neighboring Pakistan. 'You will begin to see it, I suspect, on the part of local commanders and others in Afghanistan itself first.' "
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aGYwO98a3HWs
(Afghanistan) Following Multiple Attacks on Kabul, Taliban in Afghanistan Issue Statement: Gen. McChrystal's Command of U.S. Forces Has Had 'No Impact' on Mujahideen Activities; 'You Will Not Be Able to Continue the Occupation of Afghanistan'
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3922.htm
(Afghanistan) U.S. ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry puts brakes on plan to utilize Afghan militias against Taliban
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012101926.html
(Afghanistan/Turkey) CNN: "Bomber's widow blames slain CIA mom"
-- "CIA bomber's widow: No tears for killed mom"
-- Defne Bayrak talks to CNN near Ula mosque on suicide bomber husband: "God willing, I say he is a martyr"
-- CNN: "And the question I most want to ask. What of the mother-of-three CIA operative who was killed in her husband's attack, what of her children? I thought perhaps one mother might feel for another's family. Not so."
-- Defne Bayrak: "I don't feel any remorse."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/20/turkey.widow/index.html?hpt=T2
Afghanistan: British soldier killed in Afghanistan: ministry
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100122/wl_uk_afp/britainmilitaryafghanistantoll
Afghanistan: Taliban intensifies Afghan PR campaign
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8472577.stm
(Afghanistan) NYT: "Loyalties of Those Killed in Afghan Raid Remain Unclear" -- "in a Taliban-heavy district"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/world/asia/22afghan.html?ref=world
Afghanistan bans fertilizer chemical used to make bombs
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/01/22/2010-01-22_afghanistan_bans_fertilizer_chemical_used_to_make_bombs_.html
India: Security beefed up after hijack threats
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Security-beefed-up-after-hijack-threats/articleshow/5489787.cms
-- India terror alert after security chiefs uncover Al-Qaeda plot to hijack plane
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1245238/India-terror-alert-security-chiefs-uncover-Al-Qaeda-plot-hijack-plane.html
India issues terror alert over possible plane hijacking
-- Local media says threat uncovered during the interrogation of militant
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34995789/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/
-- Hijack threat, Air India planes put on high alert
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Hijack-threat-AI-planes-put-on-high-alert/articleshow/5487289.cms
India: Lashkar para-gliders may attack India: Intelligence
-- Times of India: "Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT] has acquired more than 50 para-gliding equipment from Europe, setting off alarm bells in the government that these could be used to carry out air-borne suicide attacks in the country"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lashkar-readies-para-gliders-to-launch-suicide-attack-on-India-Intel/articleshow/5488687.cms
India: Maoists burn 3 mobile phone towers in Palamu
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Maoists-burn-3-mobile-phone-towers-in-Palamu-/articleshow/5488759.cms
India: "Arrested Taliban operative demands meat, chicken in jail"
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/48280/arrested-taliban-operative-demands-meat.html
(U.S.) Arkansas: Suspect in Recruit Shooting Claims Al Qaeda Ties --- Abdulhakim Muhammad
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583613,00.html
-- Man Claims Terror Ties in Little Rock Shooting
--- NYT reports on Abdulhakim Muhammad's letter: "'I wasn't insane or post traumatic nor was I forced to do this Act,' Mr. Muhammad said in a two-page, hand-printed note in pencil. The attack, which he said did not go as planned, was 'justified according to Islamic Laws and the Islamic Religion. Jihad - to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims.'"
--- "Mr. Muhammad, 24, a Muslim convert from Memphis"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/22littlerock.html?scp=1&sq=Abdulhakim%20Muhammad&st=cse
--- AP: AR Army Center Shooting Suspect Seeks Plea Change
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/22/ap/national/main6127666.shtml
-- Tennessee GI-Killer Boasts of al-Qaeda Ties
http://www.newser.com/story/78862/tennessee-gi-killer-boasts-of-al-qaeda-ties.html
(U.S.) AbdulMutallab Attack: Authorities were watching different Nigerian on Christmas Day flight
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/01/22/terror.plot.passenger/index.html
(U.S.) NYC - Aafia Siddiqui Trial: 'Lady Al Qaeda' Aafia Siddiqui booted from her trial ... again
-- Siddiqui in trial: "I can bring peace with Afghanistan and the Taliban in one day"
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/01/22/2010-01-22_lady_al_qaeda_aafia_siddiqui_booted_from_her_trial__again.html
http://bit.ly/8DHJ7X
(U.S) NYC - Aafia Siddiqui Trial: 'Lady Al Qaeda's' lawyers angry over extra security checks at court where she's on trial
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/01/21/2010-01-21_lady_al_qaedas_lawyers_angry_over_extra_security_checks_at_court_where_shes_on_t.html
http://bit.ly/4xnkgx
(U.S.) Minnesota: Somali terror suspect being sent to halfway house
-- AP: "Abdifatah Yusuf Isse has been in custody since his February arrest at the Seattle airport. He pleaded guilty in April to one count of providing material support to terrorists and is awaiting sentencing."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010856871_apmnmissingsomalis.html
-- Man set for release in terrorism case
http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_14243706
(U.S.) NYPD explores Governor's Island security for terror trial
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11860040
(U.S.) CNN's Cafferty on Pentagon Report on Nidal Hasan Attack on Fort Hood: "Garbage"
-- Cafferty: Why would Pentagon ignore Ft. Hood shooter's ties to Islam?
--- Cafferty: "The Pentagon acknowledges it didn't focus so much on Hasan's motives as on 'actions and effects.' They say they didn't want to interfere with the criminal probe into Hasan. Garbage."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/21/cafferty-why-would-pentagon-ignore-ft-hood-shooters-ties-to-islam/
(U.S.) Top Intelligence Chief Says 'We'll Make a New Mistake' When Trying to Prevent Terror Attempts -- DNI Dennis Blair
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583666,00.html
(U.S.) Massachusetts town welcomes detainees but Barack Obama misses deadline to close Guantanamo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7047172/Massachusetts-town-welcomes-detainees-but-Barack-Obama-misses-deadline-to-close-Guantnamo.html
-- Barack Obama to hold 50 Guantanamo detainees without trial
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7054981/Barack-Obama-to-hold-50-Guantnamo-detainees-without-trial.html
(U.S.) Kansas: Witness tells of shooting in abortion slaying case - George Tiller case
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/witness-tells-of-shooting-280330.html
(UK) Hamas supporter teaching at London university -- Daud Abdullah
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7037659/Hamas-supporter-teaching-at-London-university.html
(UK) Douglas Murray: "The Government should ignore the National Association of Muslim Police" (NAMB)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglasmurray/100023218/the-government-should-ignore-the-national-association-of-muslim-police/
-- "The truth about the Islamic Human Rights Commission, recommended by Britain's Muslim Police"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglasmurray/100023272/the-truth-about-the-islamic-human-rights-commission-recommended-by-britains-muslim-police/
(Iran) German Group: 'Nazi-era corporate behavior repeated'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147951781&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Lebanon/Syria) Hizbullah and Syria reportedly raise alert levels fearing Israeli attack
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147953891&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Israel has no intentions to attack Lebanon - Israeli officer
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2056200&Language=en
U.S. envoy fails to lure Palestinian leader back to talks
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2010/01/22/us_envoy_fails_to_lure_palestinian_leader_back_to_talks
Yemen: Al Qaeda's Tribal Ties Make Yemen a Terror Hub
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704320104575015493304519542.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583614,00.html
Yemen launches 2d attack on wanted Al Qaeda figure Ayed al-Shabwani
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2010/01/21/yemen_launches_2d_attack_on_wanted_al_qaeda_figure/
Kenya: FBI releases new picture of wanted al-Qaeda man
-- Fazul Abduallah Mohammed
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000001490&cid=4
Nigeria: Ethnic and religious unrest in Nigeria
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE60J0ZT
-- Nigeria: Over 300 killed in communal clashes --- additional report
http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/21/nigeria-over-300-killed-in-communal-clashes.htm
-- More bodies recovered after Nigerian clashes
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hacHobDvqyk6CbKsZA4wCZh3a4yw
Somalia: Hizbul Islam Takes Over Control of Beledweyn Town
http://allafrica.com/stories/201001220182.html
(Somalia) Pirate hostages Paul and Rachel Chandler 'may be killed in days'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6998074.ece
(Sudan) At least 24 killed in south Sudan clashes: army
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100122/wl_africa_afp/sudanunrestsouth
Algerian govt. remains tight-lipped on release of inmates, vows follow-up
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2056219&Language=en
Turkey arrests 120 al-Qaeda suspects in nationwide raids
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/7051806/Turkey-arrests-120-al-Qaeda-suspects-in-nationwide-raids.html
-- 'Al Qaeda members' held in Turkish terror raids
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/22/turkey.terror.raids/index.html
Islamic Supremacist War on Women:
(U.S.) Buffalo Beheading Case: Muzzammil Hassan Attorney to Claim Murder of Wife "Was Justified"
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/buffalo-beheading-case-update/
-- Buffalo News reports: Judge rejects planned defense, delays in beheading case
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/931566.html?imw=Y
-- WIVB reports
http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/crime/Shocking-turn-of-events-in-murder-case
Malaysia: Polygamy in Malaysia
-- Asia Sentinel: "Malaysian shariah laws favor men and help to maintain a patriarchal society"
http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2258&Itemid=189
Sudan: Lubna Al-Hussein, Sudanese Journalist Sentenced to Lashing for Wearing Pants: There Were Dozens of Thousands of Women Like Me
--- Lubna Al-Hussein: "in a single year, 43,000 women were arrested because of their clothing"
-- Video
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2346.htm
-- Transcript
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2346.htm
Indonesia: Officials Fire Local Shariah Police Chief Over Aceh Rape Case
http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/officials-fire-local-shariah-police-chief-over-aceh-rape-case/353948
Saudi Arabia: Rape victim might be lashed 100 times
-- AsiaNews.it: "A woman jailed after being raped could be lashed 100 times. Camille, an invented name, is a 35- year-old immigrant from the Philippines who has been in a Saudi jail since September 2009. As a result of her rape, she became pregnant, but miscarried because of harsh prison life."
-- "According to her mother, she is scheduled to go before the judges who could impose 100 lashes."
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Riyadh:-rape-victim-might-be-lashed-100-times-17425.html
Saudi Arabia: 80-year-old Saudi man reportedly marries 12-year-old girl
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147919530&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
-- Saudi Girl, 12, Married Off to 80-Year-Old Man
--- "'She was raped and they took her to the hospital after the wedding night,' Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a Saudi journalist who has been banned from reporting by the government told The Media Line."
http://www.inquisitr.com/58451/saudi-girl-12-married-off-to-80-year-old-man/
Saudi Arabia: "Saudi court to examine 12-year-old's marriage case"
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-court-to-examine-12-year-old-s-marriage-case-1.570628
-- "No religious justification for child marriage: Saudi cleric"
-- AFP reports: "The case of Aisha, known to Muslims as 'The Mother of Believers,' is often used by Saudi judges and clerics to justify child marriages."
-- "The government's Human Rights Commission said it was following the Buraidah case, which is currently being weighed by a local court."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5huC9UMsuDGHS6MPZcDO2C0Q7Oqkw
-- Saudi Gazette: "Board of Ulema member rebukes minor marriage"
--- Saudi Gazette: "According to Sheikh Al-Mane’, when Abu Bakr was contemplating marrying off his daughter he was unable to find anyone better than the Prophet"
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2010012160869
-- Previous Related Reports:
--- August 29, 2009: 10-Year-Old Saudi Child Bride Turned Back Over to 80-Year-Old Husband
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/saudi-child-bride-turned-back-over-to-80-year-old-husband/
--- June 26, 2009: Saudi Arabia: Child Marriage Not Prohibited Under "Sharia Law"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/saudi-child-marriage-sharia/
--- October 27, 2009: Saudi Arabia: In Response to Calls to Improve Status of Saudi Women, Saudi Princess Launches 'My Guardian Knows What's Best For Me' Campaign
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/saudi-arabia-princess-works-against-equality/
(Mauritania/Niger) W.African genital cutters face fatwa, jail
http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE60L0DB20100122?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=401
Other News:
Egypt: Voice of the Copts - "Application into UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights"
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/mohammed_hegazy_rights_application/
-- regarding Mr. Mohammed Bishoy Hegazy
-- European Centre for Law and Justice submitted application into UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights "seeking judgment against the Egyptian government for refusing to recognize the fact that Mr. Mohammed Bishoy Hegazy and his family members are Christians converted from Islam"
http://voiceofthecopts.org/en/press_release/application_into_un_special_rapporteur_on_human_rights.html
Egypt: U.S. Copts Association: "The discourse of denial: Spinning Naga Hammadi"
http://www.copts.com/english/?p=3851
Egypt: U.S. Ambassador in Cairo Calls for Egypt Legislation on Copts
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/margaret_scobey/
-- MEMRI reports: "During a meeting with Coptic Church Patriarch Shinoda, U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Margaret Scobey promised that the U.S. administration would compel the Egyptian government to pass legislation for the Coptic minority, such as a law arranging for church construction, or even top posts and allocation of seats for Copts in parliament."
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/24030.htm
--- Scobey, Shenouda discuss Naga Hammadi
--- "According to a source at the papal office, Scobey and Shenouda also discussed the 7 January shooting incident in the Upper Egyptian city of Naga Hammadi, in which six Coptic Christians and one Muslim were killed."
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/scobey-shenouda-discuss-naga-hammadi-affair
(U.S.) One Year Later, Obama Administration’s Top Religious Freedom Post Still Vacant
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/60165
Egyptian Televison Al-Faraeen Leader Defends "Protocols of Elders of Zion," Denies Holocaust
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/egyptian-tv-defends-anti-jewish-hate/
-- Tawfiq Okasha quoted: "I would like to say to the Jews: You talk about the Holocaust and about many other things. Do you have any video footage of this? Do you have any pictures of this? ... Ever since I was born, I've been hearing about the Holocaust, but I haven't seen any films of it. Send me films, and I will show them to public opinion, and we will be able to talk about this... There's nothing to it."
-- Tawfiq Okasha quoted: "You said that we had talked about The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and that these protocols are humiliating to the Jews. Well, these are the documents we have. You are invited to start a dialogue with us, and deny that the Jews have anything to do with these protocols."
-- Transcript
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2354.htm
-- Video
http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2354.htm
--- January 17 2010: Al-Faraeen TV's Tawfiq Okasha Reaction to MEMRI: If You Sentence Us to Death - We Will Die as Martyrs for the Sake of Allah; MEMRI Has an Office in Al-Jazeera TV Headquarters in Qatar
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2354.htm
--- January 11, 2009 - Jerusalem Post: Wiesenthal Center urges German, French TV to remove 'anti-Semitic' Egyptian station
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147861531&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
--- January 8, 2010 - Anti-American, Antisemitic Egyptian TV Channel Announces Collaboration with German State TV
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3894.htm
--- MEMRI on Al-Fareen TV - "'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' and Jewish Control of the World"
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=2329wmv&ak=null
Egypt's top cleric doesn't want call to prayer ringing on Muslims' cellphones -- Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gNDdCk5BhlqkPrQARkmpdpAuzkTg
-- Gomaa noted for support of Hezbollah as a "religious duty," defense of wife-beating, etc.
--- August 4, 2006: Gomaa calls for support of Hezbollah as a "religious duty"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DC113FF937A3575BC0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
--- July 24, 2007: Top cleric denies 'freedom to choose religion' comment
http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/top-cleric-denies-freedom-to-choose-religion-comment-1.191048
--- May 26, 2006: "Mufti of Egypt Sheik Ali Gum'a: Wife-Beating Is Permitted by Islam in Muslim Countries, but Is Forbidden in the West"
http://bit.ly/4IW4Hj
--- October 1, 2003: "The New Egyptian Mufti - Dr. Sheikh 'Ali Gum'a: Opinions About Jihad, Supporting Suicide Bombings, and Forbidding Muslims in the U.S. Military From Fighting Other Muslims"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/961.htm
Italy: Copts and Muslims to meet after Egyptian killings
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.4228477060
Algerian Church Continues in Spite of Burnt Building
http://www.compassdirect.org/english/country/13314/14286/
(Saudi Arabia) "Saudi Princess: The Shi'ites Injected Pagan Customs into Islam"
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3923.htm
Indonesia: Muslim clerics seek ban on 'funky hairstyles' in Indonesia
-- Muslim clerics in Indonesia have demanded a ban on women having perms or straightening their hair, which they described as 'inviting moral danger'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7046194/Muslim-clerics-seek-ban-on-funky-hairstyles-in-Indonesia.html
Indonesia: Sharia Law Oppression of Gays in Aceh
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/01/21/homosexuals-battle-medieval-bylaw.html
India: Lift veil for voter ID, SC tells burqa-clad women
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lift-veil-for-voter-ID-SC-tells-burqa-clad-women/articleshow/5489631.cms
UK - Deloitte and Touche: "A welcome move by the Government to support Islamic finance will see sukuk issuance that much closer"
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GB/uk/news/news-releases/press-release/9a9053d8b0656210VgnVCM100000ba42f00aRCRD.htm
Norway: Who are the morality police?
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/01/norway-who-are-morality-police.html
-- "Oslo: 'Morality police' in immigrant neighborhood"
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/01/oslo-morality-police-in-immigrant.html
-- Norway: "Greenland is more Muslim than Morocco"
http://bit.ly/8gMts8
-- It "is well known that some Muslim men behave like moral police in Greenland in Oslo"
http://bit.ly/5GFXC8
Turkey: "Death of Gay Activist Brings Turkey's Attitude Toward Gays Into Focus" - Trial on "Honor Killing" of Ahmet Yildiz
-- Voice of America: "For 26-year-old Ahmet Yildiz, the choice to live openly as a gay man in Turkey proved deadly. Prosecutors say his father, charged with allegedly killing his son in what is being dubbed as the first gay honor killing, traveled more than 900 kilometers from his hometown to shoot his son in an old neighborhood of Istanbul."
--- "A recent government study estimated one person dies every week in Istanbul as a result of honor killings."
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Death-of-Gay-Activist-Brings-Turkeys-Attitude-Toward-Gays-Into-Focus-82239372.html
France: "Paris imam backs France's burqa ban" -- Hassen Chalghoumi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7053101/Paris-imam-backs-Frances-burqa-ban.html
Israel probes vandalism of Palestinian cemetery
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012102603.html
(U.S.) IPT News: "The FBI's Meeting of the (Closed) Minds?" -- report on unindicted co-conspirator group CAIR
-- "the FBI's Detroit field office plans to speak January 28 at a 'Know Your Rights' meeting alongside an official from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)"
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1745/the-fbis-meeting-of-the-closed-minds
(U.S.) CAIR: Oklahoma Muslims ask to meet with Sen. Jim Inhofe
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-muslims-ask-to-meet-with-sen.-jim-inhofe/article/3433949?custom_click=rss
(U.S.) 'Biblical' references to be removed from guns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7048611/Biblical-references-to-be-removed-from-guns.html
(U.S.) Jawa Report: "CAIR and media's 'star witnesses' in Rifqa Bary case (Brian Smith, Tom Sanchez and Jeff Parker) facing embezzlement, mail tampering and illegal wiretapping charges"
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/200581.php
(U.S.) LA Times: "King of Pop was about to convert to Islam, Michael Jackson's brother says"
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/01/muslim-world-king-of-pop-was-on-verge-of-converting-to-islam-michael-jacksons-brother-tells-arab-new.html
(U.S.) Pittsburgh: Students return to CMU buildings after unspecified security threat -- Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_663594.html
(UK) Muslim Public Affairs Council UK (MPAC-UK) Backs NAMP Statement
http://bit.ly/5moYLA
ICC Releases Hall of Shame Report
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/pdfs/ICCTop10Report.pdf
Iran: Khamenei and Ahmadinejad threaten newspapers and the Green Wave: Zero Tolerance
Khamenei and Ahmadinejad threaten newspapers and the Green Wave: Zero Tolerance
Against Totalitarianism News:
Communist China says missing lawyer 'is where he should be'
-- Gao Zhisheng, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer missing for almost a year, has been judged by legal authorities and 'is where he should be'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7052162/China-says-missing-lawyer-is-where-he-should-be.html
Communist China condemns 'groundless' US criticism of web control
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8474011.stm
-- Communist China: Hillary Clinton's attack on web freedom 'harmful' to relations with US
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7051179/China-Hillary-Clintons-attack-on-web-freedom-harmful-to-relations-with-US.html
-- Hillary Clinton urges China to investigate Google attack
--- Telegraph reports: "Alec Ross, Mrs Clinton's innovation adviser, added that her department is not the 'foreign policy arm of Google' "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7046047/Hillary-Clinton-urges-China-to-investigate-Google-attack.html
-- Hillary Clinton "Remarks on Internet Freedom"
---- Clinton: "We stand for a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas."
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/135519.htm
Communist China: Google to stop censoring China web search results soon: CEO
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/biz/international-business/Google-to-stop-censoring-China-web-search-results-soon-CEO/articleshow/5486469.cms
Communist China: "What's really at stake in Google vs. China"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/21/zakaria.google.china/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Against Nazi News:
German police seek evidence on suspected Nazi -- only identified as "Samuel K."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3837964,00.html
Against Racial Supremacism News:
(U.S.) Houston - Residents Finding KKK Fliers on Lawns - another report
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100121-kkk-fliers
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