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Osman Daramy? Is it just me, or is that not a fairly Islamic name itself? Who is this kid? Another article suggests he comes from a Muslim family (insofar as he comes from a family at all, he sounds like a product of the classic broken-home, failed-family-formation background for this sort of thing) which I suppose explains the name.
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Ages 12 and 13.
Way to go. If we didn't have a couple of criminals before, we might now.
At that age, they need a stern talking-to by involved parents.
Ivory Coast's president, Laurent Gbagbo, has been holed up in a bunker with his family and a handful of supporters as army generals negotiated his surrender.
The former history professor turned politician, who refused to accept that he had lost last year's election, is facing an ignominious end to his 10-year rule after waging a desperate war to preserve it.
As he sheltered in the basement of his presidential palace surrounded by forces loyal to his rival, Alassane Ouattara, the UN said that it had received calls from Gbagbo's three top generals the head of the armed forces, the head of the police and the head of the elite republican guard offering to negotiate terms for surrender in return for guarantees of safety.
The negotiations came after a dramatic 24 hours in Ivory Coast. On Monday night, UN and French forces opened fire with attack helicopters on Gbagbo's arms stockpiles and bases. Earlier, columns of foot soldiers allied to Ouattara finally pierced the city limits of Abidjan.
Gbagbo's spokesman, Ahoua Don Mello, told Reuters there were "direct negotiations based on African Union (AU) recommendations which said Alassane Ouattara is president. They are also negotiating judicial and security conditions for Gbagbo's camp and his relatives."
Last night, Gbagbo told French television his commanders were negotiating for a ceasefire. He also criticised France for intervening in Ivory Coast. "I don't understand how an electoral dispute in Ivory Coast has brought about the direct intervention of the French army," he said.
Because they're French. And they don't like you.
"One might think that we are getting to the end of the crisis," Hamadoun Touré, spokesman for the UN mission in Ivory Coast, told the Associated Press. "We spoke to his close aides. Some had already defected, some are ready to stop fighting. He is alone now, he is in his bunker with a handful of supporters and family members. So is he going to last or not? I don't know."
France, the former colonial power, said both it and the UN required Gbagbo to state in writing that he was giving up power before any agreement is reached. Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister, told parliament he agreed with the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that "the departure of Gbagbo be preceded by the publication of a document with his signature in which he renounces power".
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JEDDAH: A total of 30 officials of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) have been trained on how to deal with cases of black magic.
The three-day training program was held in the Eastern Province city of Al-Ahsa.
The commission has achieved remarkable successes in combating black magic in various parts of the country. It has set up nine specialized centers in the main cities to deal with black magicians.
The majority of people arrested for practicing black magic in the Kingdom are Africans and Indonesians.
According to a report received by Arab News, a single specialized center had dealt with 586 cases involving black magic, showing the enormity of the problem.
About 50 cases were reported in Jeddah alone in the first half of 2009. Gurayat and Qunfuda also reported high rates of black magic cases during that year.
The Riyadh governorate last year launched a campaign against black magicians and those who illegally treat people by reading from the Quran.
Only qualified Saudis are allowed to practice Quranic treatment methods. Expatriates practicing such treatments would be caught and deported.
JEDDAH: A total of 30 officials of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) have been trained on how to deal with cases of black magic.
The three-day training program was held in the Eastern Province city of Al-Ahsa.
The commission has achieved remarkable successes in combating black magic in various parts of the country. It has set up nine specialized centers in the main cities to deal with black magicians.
The majority of people arrested for practicing black magic in the Kingdom are Africans and Indonesians.
According to a report received by Arab News, a single specialized center had dealt with 586 cases involving black magic, showing the enormity of the problem.
About 50 cases were reported in Jeddah alone in the first half of 2009. Gurayat and Qunfuda also reported high rates of black magic cases during that year.
The Riyadh governorate last year launched a campaign against black magicians and those who illegally treat people by reading from the Quran.
Only qualified Saudis are allowed to practice Quranic treatment methods. Expatriates practicing such treatments would be caught and deported.
JEDDAH: A total of 30 officials of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) have been trained on how to deal with cases of black magic.
The three-day training program was held in the Eastern Province city of Al-Ahsa.
The commission has achieved remarkable successes in combating black magic in various parts of the country. It has set up nine specialized centers in the main cities to deal with black magicians.
The majority of people arrested for practicing black magic in the Kingdom are Africans and Indonesians.
According to a report received by Arab News, a single specialized center had dealt with 586 cases involving black magic, showing the enormity of the problem.
About 50 cases were reported in Jeddah alone in the first half of 2009. Gurayat and Qunfuda also reported high rates of black magic cases during that year.
The Riyadh governorate last year launched a campaign against black magicians and those who illegally treat people by reading from the Quran.
Only qualified Saudis are allowed to practice Quranic treatment methods. Expatriates practicing such treatments would be caught and deported.
Arch-conservative MP Bernie Finn has landed Australia's Liberal Party into another race row after comments about Muslims. Premier Ted Baillieu has refused to condemn the Liberal MPs who denounced Islam on Facebook.
The Facebook comments followed a Herald Sun story earlier in the week alleging reporting that many Muslims live in ghettos due to fear of racism.
Finn posted that he failed to understand "how concerns about a religion that seems to sanction decapitation can be construed as racism".
During a rowdy question time, Labor attacked Finn's comments as racist "dog whistle" politics.
Finn responded, "No religion is specific to a skin tone or colour. Some people need to get a hobby as they have too much time on their hands if they were concerned with those comments."
Baillieu yesterday said multiculturalism is vital for Victoria but refused to respond to his colleague's comments as he had not seen or heard them. "I would encourage all Victorians to demonstrate tolerance and their commitment to multiculturalism," he said.
Earlier this year Federal Liberal leader Tony Abbott separated himself from outspoken South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi's denigration of Islam as a "totalitarian, political and religious" ideology.
France's interior minister, Claude Gueant, is facing legal action after maintaining that the "growing" number of Muslims in France was "a problem".
"It's true that the increase in the number of faithful in (Islam), a certain number of behaviours, poses a problem," Gueant said on Monday.
Singling out the "problem" of Muslims clogging up praying in the street, he said that French secular law dates from when there were "very few Muslims", while now there are between five and six million. The aggressive-submissive anti-racism group SOS Racisme said it would take legal action against Gueant for inciting racial hatred.
The proposals discussed included not allowing Muslim mothers to wear headscarves when attending school field trips, and banning parents from taking their children out of compulsory subjects like gym and biology.
UMP leader Jean-Francois Copé said the debate was not an attempt to woo National Front voters. "They denounce (Muslim practices). We are making proposals" to relieve social tensions, he said.
Gueant's predecessor Brice Hortefeux was also charged with racism after being recorded on camera saying of Muslims: "When there's one that's OK, it's when there are several that it becomes problematic."
The dispute came as the ruling UMP party held a controversial debate on Islam and secularism in France. There were 26 proposals made, including consideration of a law banning people from rejecting doctors because of their sex or religion.
Muslim leaders refused to participate. Fouad Alaoui, president of the Union of Islamic Organisations in France, said Guéants remarks "show once again that the logic of the National Front is taking over."
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Why BP that's like proposing people voluntarily pay for their own union representation if they want it. Can't trust the 'little people' to understand. /sarc off
The New York chapter of CAIR will hold a news conference on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan to poison the well challenge expected anti-Islam bias in a State Senate hearing featuring an impenitent apostate infamous Islamophobe.
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CAIR/Islamic America can't survive/happen if free speech is allowed. And they know it. Whether in hearings or when they recently told Muslims in America to not talk to the FBI.
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With a bias we favor one thing over another. Certainly we favor the U.S. and its way of life over that of the islamist--don't we? What surprises me is that there is not more bias. Where's the outrage at the continued attempts by muslims who try to murder U.S. citizens? Where's the bias because of 911? Lockerbie? 40 years of terror towards Americans? We can't win a war if we don't have a bias against our enemies. WWII would never concluded in victory if we did not have a bias against our enemies; the Germans, Italians, and Japanese at that time. These hearings are a waste of time and money.
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Can someone just tell these people to go F#*$@ themselves?
I just want to puke at the PC promotion of islam in the media and the continuous snide ridicule of Christianity.
As recently as 25 years ago, Bill Maher would have been thrown off the air and fired. Today, the media makes him out as a great philosopher everytime he makes one of his outrageous atheistic comments.
CAIR reminds me of the old German American Bundt in the thirties. A lot of noise to divert attention away from the real story.
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Shutter the building, grease the steps, and go home.
SULAIMANIYA / Aswat al-Iraq: The opposition parties in Kurdistan called on Tuesday to dissolve the government of Barham Saleh and to form an interim government. This came at a press conference held in Sulaimaniya city, attended by Aswat al-Iraq news agency after a meeting of leaders of the opposition parties; Noushirwan Mustapha of al-Taghiyeer bloc, Salah al-Din Bahaa al-Din of the Islamic Union and Ali Babier of the Islamic Jamaa.
The opposition calls to dissolve the current government and to form an interim government, said a statement read by Mohammad Hakim, noting that the new governments mission will focus on starting real reforms and holding fair elections.
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There is fear that iff the Govt. of BABY ASSAD collapses, those Kurds in Syria will rise up + attempt to politically merge wid their breathren in TURKEY + IRAN.
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.
Arch-conservative MP Bernie Finn has landed Australia's Liberal Party into another race row after comments about Muslims. Premier Ted Baillieu has refused to condemn the Liberal MPs who denounced Islam on Facebook.
France's interior minister, Claude Gueant, is facing legal action after maintaining that the "growing" number of Muslims in France was "a problem". 
The New York chapter of CAIR will hold a news conference on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan to 
CAIR/Islamic America can't survive/happen if free speech is allowed. And they know it. Whether in hearings or when they recently told Muslims in America to not talk to the FBI. 
