[Libya Herald] Libya Telecoms and Technology (LTT), the state monopoly internet service controller, claimed that the internet service in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... was interrupted for a number of hours today due to an attack by ''internet pirates from more than 13 countries''. Single point of control = single point of failure.
The claim came today on the background of the festivities and fighting in various areas of Tripoli over the last few nights and days, including in Tajoura and Fashloum between GNC-Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... forces and House of Representatives (HoR) local supporters. As long as we're on the subject: The internet will be closed for cleaning Tuesday between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
LTT was accused by some locals today of deliberately cutting internet connection to the outside world, including social networks such as Facebook, in order to suppress news of events in Tripoli. We apologize for the inconvenience, but the digital dust bunnies are just out of hand.
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[Libya Herald] In a strongly worded statement issued today, the Libyan government condemned the international community, UNSMIL and its head Bernardino Leon for failing to condemn the Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... actions against civilians in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... The government accuses Leon of not being neutral, of practicing double standards in his dealings with Libya and of not fully understanding what is happening in Libya.
It further says in its statement that it holds the international community and UNSMIL responsible for what is happening in Libya and calls for international help in protecting civilians in Tripoli.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Yemen's former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... said on Friday he would not leave the country, dismissing reports in the Gulf Arab media that he was seeking a safe exit as Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n war planes bomb troops loyal to him and their Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia allies.
The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , meanwhile, said about 150,000 people had been driven from their homes by three weeks of air strikes and ground fighting and more than 750 people killed.
Many schools, hospitals and mosques had been damaged or destroyed in the conflict, it said.
A Saudi-led coalition began its air campaign on March 25 after the Houthi rebels, who run most of the country, closed in on the southern port city of Aden and forced the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour to flee to Riyadh.
The Iran-allied Houthis, a Shi'ite Moslem movement from northern Yemen, have formed an alliance of convenience with Saleh, who is widely believed to be plotting behind the scenes to make a comeback on Yemen's tumultuous political scene.
But military sources have said some army units loyal to Saleh have defected and now support Hadi.
Saudi-owned Arabiya TV, citing a Gulf official, said representatives of Saleh had visited Arab capitals and floated an initiative for him and his family to leave safely.
Saleh scoffed at the report.
"I'm not the type who goes looking for a place to live in Jeddah, Gay Paree or Europe. My country is my birthplace. The person who can say to Ali Abdullah Saleh 'leave your country' has not been and will not be born," he wrote on his Facebook page.
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as humanitarian toll mounts
What? They only shooting Amnesiacs and UN Refugee folks now? Not saying that's a bad thing.......
[ALMANAR.LB] In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary-General
United Nations
New York
Excellency,
I would like to draw your attention to the extremely alarming situation in Yemen, exacerbated by the recent provocative foreign military air campaign. It goes on in flagrant defiance of the most basic principles of international law, flouting the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular the obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force in international relations.
Foreign military forces have mostly targeted purely civilian infrastructures of Yemen, destroying, inter alia, hospitals, schools, road, food factories and power plants, and thus depriving civilians of basic necessities. They have also indiscriminately targeted residential areas, including refugee camps, killing and injuring innocent civilians, in particular women and children.
This critical situation is escalating and the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is approaching catastrophic dimensions. It may result in further exacerbation of the already tense circumstances in a region that has been plagued by one of the most barbaric types of extremism and multi-pronged vicious campaign of foreign-backed terrorists. These terrorist groups have been the main beneficiaries, gaining strategic foothold in Yemen aided by the foreign aerial campaign.
Under these circumstances, it is imperative for the international community to get more effectively involved in ending the senseless aerial attacks and establishing a ceasefire, ensuring delivery of humanitarian and medical assistance to the people of Yemen and restoring peace and stability to this country through dialogue and national reconciliation without pre-conditions.
The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that there is no military solution to this conflict. The only way to restore peace and stability is to allow all Yemeni parties to establish, without any foreign interference, their own inclusive national unity government. To this end, the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that all efforts, particularly those by the United Nations, should be guided, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, by the following objectives:
1.Ceasefire and an immediate end to all foreign military attacks;
2.Unimpeded urgent humanitarian and medical assistance to the people of Yemen;
3.Resumption of Yemeni-lead and Yemeni-owned national dialogue, with the participation of the representatives of all political parties and social groups;
4.Establishment of an inclusive national unity government.
I hope that Your Excellency will urgently use your good offices and conduct consultations with the concerned parties to facilitate and encourage an immediate end to these senseless bombardments and initiation of a genuine dialogue to find a political solution to this tragic crisis. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran stands ready to assist you in advancing this objective.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
M. Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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[DAWN] A newspaper hails Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's "brave gunnies". Students build a remote-controlled fighter plane as a tribute to warplanes bombing Yemeni rebels. A phone company offers patriotic songs as ringtones.
This is wartime in Saudi Arabia, a tightly controlled Islamic kingdom where almost every audible voice is behind the three-week-old air campaign against sock puppets of the Medes and the Persians in neighbouring Yemen.
"Our king has done something good," said Saud Mubarak, an unemployed man in his mid-20s.
He echoed the government view of the absolute monarchy that the Saudi-led military coalition acted to stop the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels' advance and to help the legitimate government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
"We're all happy about that," said Mubarak, a former security guard.
Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamdi, former head of the inquisitors religious police in the holy city of Mecca, said "over 90 per cent" of people in the kingdom support the operation in Yemen, which has been dubbed "Decisive Storm".
"I feel that what the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia did was 100 per cent right ... not only for Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... but all the countries of the Gulf, and Arabs and Islam," said Ghamdi, who sparked a controversy in the conservative kingdom last year when he appeared in a video with his wife whose face was uncovered.
On Yemen, his views follow the official line which accuses Iran of supporting the Houthis, despite Tehran's denial of supplying weapons to them.
Saudi Arabia's top holy man, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, has called the Yemen operation "a blessed step".
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Is the kingdom all in or overly dependent on Mighty Pak Army Landser? Or Egyptians?
Outside chance the Zkingdom becomes something other than a clearing house? I dunno, I just dunno. It would be the chance of a lifetime to the current headman to gain military credit ability by sending in the Saudi Guard.
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The Saudi military isn't there to fight wars and defend the borders. It's there to keep the royal family in place. In other words, the same job militaries have in every thugocracy...
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the same job militaries have in every thugocracy...
We, on the other hand, are much more enlightened and use our military for social engineering and to promote gender equality.
[Iran Press TV] Due to lack of evidence, the UK has released six people who were jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! over alleged terrorism charges.
Betcha they keep the bugs on their phones and computers, though.
"No evidence was uncovered to suggest any imminent threat to the communities of Rochdale or the UK," police said on Saturday.
Among those released, there were five people from a group of nine family members who were detained by Turkish police near the Syrian border on April 1 and returned to Britannia, where they were arrested on suspicion of attempting to join ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lions of Islam in Syria.
The sixth person who was arrested in the UK was also released.
"I believe it is important to remind some of the media and fellow politicians that all people should be regarded as innocent unless proven otherwise," said Rochdale Labor councilor Shakil Ahmed, father of one of released.
Rochdale Labour councillor Shakil Ahmed
"We should be careful not to express negative comment prior to the completion of an investigation or court process otherwise we risk stigmatizing and demonizing a family as well as potentially jeopardizing peoples' right to a fair trial."
The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group, with members from several Western countries, controls swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, and has been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities such as Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.
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[AA.TR] At least three people were killed during a six-hour shootout in Reynosa between a narco gang and authorities.
"Three armed civilians are reported dead. Two members of the state of Tamaulipas security task force consisting of army troops and federal police were maimed in the attacks," authorities said late Friday, adding that vehicles were also burned, including a school bus.
Government officials alleged that the violence was provoked by the arrest of Jose Tiburcio Hernandez Fuentes, also know as "El gafe," leader of the Gulf narco mob.
"Following the operation, members of that same criminal group responded by attacking members of the federal forces and coppers, carrying out some road blockades," said the Tamaulipas Coordination Group, or GCT, a group formed by federal and Tamaulipas state security corps.
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Hat tip Josh Stanton at One Free Korea. Excellent point to consider on a Sunday.
Washington -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has not fully consolidated his power and could be marginalized into a "puppet" unless he brings in more money and buys support from within the regime in a couple of years, a U.S. expert said Monday.
That is why Pyongyang is largely maintaining its charm offensive toward South Korea while refraining from major provocations in an attempt to prod Seoul to improve inter-Korean relations and "open up the coffers," said Ken Gause, a top North Korea expert at CNA Corp., during a lecture.
"The royal economy, which is part of the economy surrounding the Kim family, is losing money. They can't bring in as much money. He's having to spend about twice as much money than his father did to buy support within the regime," Gause said. "He doesn't have the resources to be able to consolidate his power and buy relationships."
Every thug knows that money is the secret to staying in power. Saleh in Yemen has been able to make deals and get back to Sanaa because he had a couple billion stashed away. Saddam, Castro, Hugo, the mad Ayatollahs, Assad, and most especially Putin all have or had a rainy day fund that was carefully controlled by their most trusted advisors and salted away in the best western investment houses. They each spend/spent billions more keeping the various factions in their countries in line. Billions more on a military counter-balanced by a secret police (or two, one to watch the other). If Pudgy is unable to raise funds his time in power will be cut short -- literally.
Power struggles, which have been frozen in place since Kim's execution of his uncle Jang Song-thaek, could thaw out in one to two years, and if those power struggles happen, Kim no longer has the regent structure around to protect him, the expert said.
"He is now directly exposed to those power struggles and he can be undermined by that. Not toppled, not coup, but marginalized and turned into a puppet. I think that would happen within the next two to five years. I really think he needs to do this within the next couple of years," Gause said.
So the real question is whether, indeed, Fat Boy is having cashflow problems. He's still able to afford luxury goods for the inner circle, and the people of Pyongyang still have enough calories (barely). That suggests he has resources (trade with China, those western bank accounts) that we haven't been able to touch.
The economic problem is one of three things Kim must address to consolidate the power he inherited from his father, Kim Jong-il, who died in late 2011, the expert said. The two other tasks are to purge potential adversaries and bring in people and to make progress in defense systems, such as the missile and nuclear programs.
The economic question is why North Korea reached out to Japan and Russia, he said.
"A part of why they reached out to Japan was to put pressure on South Korea. It's all about South Korea. That's why they're playing ball with the Russians right now," he said. "It's all getting South Korea to open up the coffers. That's what it's about."
The economic reason also explains why the North hasn't launched another provocation, Gause said.
"They don't want to undermine the charm campaign. There's still, if you read their rhetoric, if you read the media, it does suggest that even though they're talking a harsh language towards the South Koreans, they're keeping the door open for potential engagement," he said.
"If they go and test a missile and especially if they test a nuke, that's going to really undermine that, especially if they return to something like Cheonan, or whatever. It's game over at that point," he said, referring to the North's 2010 sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan.
However, if the North makes a determination at some point in the near future that South Korea is not going to play ball, the North may become much more aggressive in terms of provocations, he said.
Should the North's young leader visit Moscow next month for celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in World War II, it would suggest there's "stability inside the regime, that he can leave the country," the expert said.
Another factor that should be watched closely is whether Kim's second child is a girl or boy, Gause said. Kim's first child is a girl.
"If it's a girl and Kim Jong-un were to die or become incapacitated, then you've got a major transfer of power issue," he said, raising the possibilities that Kim's brother, Jong-chol, could take over or the North could establish collective leadership.
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Another billion from an un-sanctioned Iran to build nukes and/or training to build nukes will come in handy.
An octogenarian dinosaur in the North Korean regime seems to have finally retired and made way for leader Kim Jong-un's sister.
The replacement is no better...
Footage shows Kim Ki-nam (86), the one-time secretary of North Korea's Workers Party, sitting in the third pew alongside vice-ministerial officials rather than on the leaders platform during the third session of the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang on April 9.
Kim Ki-nam was also not seen on the leaders platform at a rally marking the 103rd birthday of regime founder Kim Il-sung last Tuesday. This suggests he has retired from his job and assumed an honorary post.
At least he wasn't fed to dogs...
Kim Ki-nam became a deputy director of the party's propaganda department and the editor-in-chief of the state-run Rodong Sinmun in 1966. In the 1990s, he worked for former leader Kim Jong-il as the director of the department and secretary of the party in charge of propaganda.
It is highly likely that Kim Jong-un's sister Yeo-jong has replaced him.
"Kim Jong-un probably appointed his sister, whom he can trust, as party secretary for propaganda," a source speculated. "Kim Ki-nam's old age was a consideration for a post that is in charge of idolizing the young leader."
North Korean propaganda is famously inept, relying heavily on uniformed song and dance and rhapsodic blather, and the Kims may be trying to inject some new ideas into the stone-age machinery.
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SEOUL -- A North Korean propaganda unit said the U.S. ambassador to South Korea could face a "bigger mishap" than the knife attack to his face last month if he does not stop insulting North Korea with "laughable" accusations.
It appears that Kimmie knows how to communicate with Mr. Obama.
My word but it sounds like a threat. A better president (Bush, Reagan, Truman) would call Fat-Boy on it. Champ will fold like a cheap lawn chair.
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The "fascist Islamist" plot to attack unarmed civilians
by Islamists said to be linked to Islamic State
Who the intelligence agencies have told our fearless leaders to call Daesh as an arabic acronym of their name so we can all avoid saying "Islam" or "Muslim" in a headline.
even though it's dishonest.
Even though we don't call Germany "Deutschland", we use the English word because we speak English.
so in English, the group is called, and calls itself, "Islamic State"
[ARA] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... said that the external support for the Syrian opposition fighters was "the main reason" behind the fall of Idlib city in northwestern the country, stressing that the Syrian regime's military capabilities are no longer as in the past, after four years of war.
In an interview with the Swedish newspaper Expressen published on Friday, Assad said that the military and massive financial support provided by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to the "armed terrorist groups" is the main factor that led to the fall of Idlib city last March.
Regarding the Iranian, Iraqi and Lebanese support received by the Syrian regime's army, Assad said that the Syrian Arab military capabilities are no longer as they used to be in the past, "especially after four years of continuous war".
"It is our right as a government popularly elected in Syria, to ask for support from any country or organization that can help us in the eradication of terrorism," he said.
Responding to the accusations on his forces re-use of chemical weapons in its war with the opposition, Assad said: "These claims are part of a propaganda war against Syria. The Western officials are trying to promote lies to the public, and this does not mean that we do not make mistakes, but the Western perspective doesn't reflect reality of the region as it is."
"The talk about the use of chemical weapons is part of the propaganda war, that's why conflicting figures and statistics emerge every once in a while regarding those weapons," he added.
Talking about human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... in Syria, Assad stressed that torture in Syria "is not a systematic policy, but merely individual acts, and the perpetrators are being held accountable before the law".
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Unless I've missed something, Iran Ally + BFRNF Baby Assad has seemingly indirectly threatened alleged ISIS-sponsor Turkey by indic that since terrorism has "no borders", Syria has no qualms about attacking terror anywhere in the ME which threatens it???
[Rudaw] As Iraqi forces are locked in an intense battle with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the city of Ramadi, the Anbar provincial council says the jihadi group now controls as much as 20 percent of the city.
Falih Issawi, deputy president of the provincial council, made the 20 percent claim Sunday in comments to Al-Mada newspaper.
"Due to a lack of ammunition and weapons, we did not manage to stop the group's advance," Issawi said.
Abdulmajid Fahdawi, an Anbar tribal leader, said a military force consisting of two divisions of the Golden Force units of the Iraqi army and Iraqi police on Saturday arrived at Hamdaniyah military base south of Ramadi to halt further ISIS advances. "A Hashd al-Shaabi force also arrived at Hamdaniyah military base to fight alongside the Iraqi joint forces," he said referring to volunteer Shiite militias also know as Popular Mobilizations Units, or PMUs.
The UN has said 90,000 civilians have fled Anbar province due to the current fighting there. Several sources in Anbar said many of the displaced families have fled on foot to Baghdad.
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The United Nations does not have any evidence that building material bound for Gaza is being used for anything other than civilian purposes, James Rowley, the UN coordinator for humanitarian affairs in the Palestinian territories, said on Sunday. We don't have a pic of three monkeys?
[AA.TR] The Rafah crossing on the border between the Gazoo Strip and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has been closed for 100 days now, the Gazoo Interior Ministry said Saturday.
It added that this has been the longest closure of the crossing since 2009, calling on Egyptian authorities to reopen the border point to alleviate the suffering of the residents of the Gazoo Strip.
Around 60,000 Gazoo residents have registered to get out of the blockaded territory from the crossing for medical and other needs since July of 2013, according to Gazoo's border crossings authority.
Since October of last year, Egyptian authorities have been working to create a buffer zone in the border area between Sinai and the Gazoo Strip.
The zone is created with the aim of curbing Death Eater activities in the parched Egyptian peninsula, according to Egyptian authorities.
With Gazoo's other crossing points on its border with Israel closed by Israeli authorities, the closure of the Rafah crossing -- Gazoo's only window to the outside world at present -- adds more suffering to the coastal territory's 1.9 million residents.
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suffer some more, ya blood-thirsty beetches
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And now, when there are no tunnels, Hamas derives most of its funds by tariffs on the goods going through the checkpoint.
[Iran Press TV] Iranians have held yet another rally in the country's capital in condemnation of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's aggression against Yemen.
The protest saw students and teachers gathering in front of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... headquarters in Tehran and urging international organizations to act in order to stop the killing of innocent civilians.
"The killing of children in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... should be condemned," shouted protesters.
"In the demonstration, we have tried to show our growing discontent to the world and to support the defenseless people in Islamic countries," said one female student.
People in Iran have staged several protest rallies against the Saudi onslaught that has left nearly 2,700 people dead since March 26.
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Intense criticism has prompted an Ohio high school's principal to cancel a student event in which girls would celebrate diversity by spending a day wearing a Muslim headscarf.
Mason High School Mindy McCarty-Stewart also issued an apology in an email Thursday to district families, saying the intent of the April 23 student-led event was meant to be positive, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Geez -- that's the next school district over from my house. Generally speaking, it's a good district, with lots of scientists among the parents.
Although many praised the event, a backlash erupted on the Internet from some complaining the event promoted a single religion as well as a garment some linked to oppression of women.
On the other hand, others complained that having all girls wear scarves seemed mocking of a Muslim tradition, as inappropriate as students dressing up in a priest's collar to celebrate Catholicism.
Sharon Poe, a former school board candidate in the district, told the Enquirer she opposed the "Covered Girl" event.
"My belief is wearing these hijabs represents the oppression of women and Sharia law," she said, adding that public schools should not be promoting one religious tradition over another.
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If it was real Islamic school day, they would not only throw tarps over the girls, they would put them in separate classes away from the boys. For Really Islamic school day, the girls would simply stay home.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Yemen's former president 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Intense criticism has prompted an Ohio high school's principal to cancel a student event in which girls would celebrate diversity by spending a day wearing a Muslim headscarf.
