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Archive for June 7th, 2007

Egyptian women: "we cyrcumcise our daughters because that’s our tradition"

Posted in Egypt, Women's Rights on June 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Presenter in studio: Many women fail to please their husbands because their families circumcised them when they were girls. Female circumcision still takes place, not only in the villages. For our show today, we talked with people from all levels of society. We went to clubs, to common places, and to the villages. Female circumcision [...]

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Iberoamerican populism

Posted in Bolivia, Ecuador, Human Rights, Venezuela, freedom of expression on June 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »

This article is from March but it is really important to read
If any doubts remained about President Hugo Chvez’s plans for Venezuela’s destiny, they have been erased by his decree to “rescue” unproductive lands and assign them to “groups of the population” and “organized communities” from rural areas. Private property is history, so Chávez is [...]

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Malaysia and freedom of expression

Posted in Human Rights, Islamism, Malaysia, freedom of expression on June 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »

 After Lina Joy has been denied the right to convert from Islam to Christianity, and has been transferred to a Sharia tribunal -with the huge joy of the extremers and the result, as Ms.Song pointed to me in comments’ section: “she has been disowned by her family and cannot marry her fiance, a Christian because [...]

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The Syrian-Jihadist "Highway" in Lebanon

Posted in Human Rights, Iran, Islamism, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria on June 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »

 
A curious “debate” is growing rapidly among a number of Western-based analysts about the “impossibility” of the existence of Syrian Jihadi-Salafist links. More particularly, some analysts went to the extent of describing the existence of links between the Syrian Mukhabarat and the group Fatah al Islam operating in North Lebanon as “hazy.”
Ironically this mounting trend [...]

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Turkey: "no incursion into Iraq"

Posted in European Union, France, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, USA, terrorism on June 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »

As I posted some weeks ago, there are reports that point out to a Turkish incursion into Iraq. Turkey has just denied it:

Turkey has denied reports that its troops have launched a major incursion into northern Iraq, targeting Kurdish militants. News agencies quoting unnamed Turkish security officials say there’s been a “limited cross-border” military operation. [...]

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De Juana, in Aranjuez’s prison (UPDATED)

Posted in Financial news, PSOE, Spain, Zapatero, antizp, terrorism, terrorists, violence on June 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »

His return to Aranjuez, prison in which he was till March 1st, happens a day after the ETA’s announcement of the end to ceasefire. The terrorist band’s statement has not been alien to the measure applied to De Juana,who only a week ago was asking to be freed and go back to his house in a soft prison regime which [...]

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