Abu Dhabi: Books and information should not be banned or withheld from the public, the Minister of Education said yesterday. Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Education, said that people have the right to choose what to read and not to read. He was inaugurating the 15th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. "We live in an age in which people should be supplied with all kinds of information through different media. All people have the right to choose and select information and are wise enough to make that choice. No book should be banned and no information should be withheld from the public in this day and age."
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If a book agrees with the Koran, it is redundant and therefore unnecessary. If a book contradicts the Koran, it is blasphemy and should be destroyed. There, wasn't that easy!
Suddenly, I have a vision of waves of B-52s carpet bombing the Middle East with copies of The Cat in the Hat and My Weekly Reader.
The Council of Ministers recently submitted a file containing 25 documents to Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Rasheed Al-Hamad, criticizing the school curricula which urges violence, promotes sectarianism and opposes other religions. Education sources told the Arab Times the decision of the minister to reform a panel to revise the curricula is in reaction to the file which was submitted to him two weeks ago. The source said responsible officials of the ministry felt embarrassed because they had earlier said the school curricula neither encourages extremism nor incites terrorism. The source added the very fact the committee has been reformed is an evidence the former committee which wanted to prove that it has distanced from sectarianism had failed in its 'mission.' The source also said material criticizing Shiites and accusing other religions of infidelity was found among the school curricula.
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More than 5,000 Qataris, who have lost their citizenship following an emiri decree, have described the government decision as "arbitrary" and said it violated international charters. According to Al-Riyadh Arabic newspaper, which managed to obtain a copy of the emiri decree, a total of 5,266 people from Al-Ghafran branch of Al-Murrah tribe were affected by the decision. The men, women and children on the list are to lose their rights to state-provided employment, housing, education and health care. Electricity and water have already been cut off to the homes of those named, reports said. Informed sources said the move was "a belated response to a failed coup attempt", a reference to the 1996 attempt to unseat Qatar's current ruler, Emir Sheikh Hamad Al-Thani.
"The move also aims at keeping a balance in Qatari society, especially after the government's plan to hold parliamentary elections next year," the sources pointed out. Human rights activists in the country described the move as "dangerous violation of basic rights of those affected". They said they had informed international human rights organizations of the decree, which affected a large number of women, children and elderly citizens. According to Article 15 of the Qatari Citizenship Law, a Qatari will lose his citizenship if he commits a major crime. But the law applies only to the person or persons who commit the crime, not the entire family or tribe. Al-Murrah tribe, which settled in Qatar some 200 years ago, accounted for 43 percent of the emirate's population. Al-Hayat Arabic daily said the Qatari government justified the decision on the ground that the affected branch of the tribe was of Saudi Arabian origin and held Saudi citizenship. Miteb Al-Ghafrani, a tribe member, said he was in Saudi Arabia when the decree was issued and could not enter Qatar. "I tried to enter Qatar after hearing the news of the death of my father. But my efforts went in vain. I don't have any identity," Al-Hayat quoted Al-Ghafrani as saying. Oil- and gas-rich Qatar has a population of only around 800,000 people, four-fifths of whom are expatriate workers and their dependents.
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Kuwait named a new information minister on Wednesday, two months after his predecessor quit as he was about to be questioned in parliament over allowing "immoral" Western-style concerts in the country. The Emir, His Highness Shaikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah, appointed Anas Mohammad Ahmad Al Reshaid to the post, the state news agency Kuna said. Former minister Mohammad Abulhassan resigned in January before he was due to be questioned by Islamist MPs over several allegations, including approving concerts in the country which were seen by the lawmakers as violating Sharia law.
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There is a nasty recession coming in Europe and all this will get a lot worse. At some point the debate will move on to how to fix the fractured societies multiculturalism has created. I am not optimistic they will find a solution.
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Pretty intense and incredibly well written article. Bone chilling, I do not lightly use that word as a description, but this was truly bone chilling.
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I read the accounts of the attacks when they happened and waited to see if anyone -- ANYONE -- here or in France would take them seriously.
There is a black hole at the heart of Western Europe and those who are not rushing to throw themselves into it will nevertheless find themselves pulled in inexorably. France has crossed the event horizon and is slowly being pulled apart into her atoms and her atoms into particles and subparticles by the irresistable mass of mindless hatred sown by her intellectual, economic and labor leaders.
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This is scary when you think that the LLL is trodding (no - running hellbent) down this path.
I can easilt see 'gangs' of LLL 'peace protester' around in 2008. (all to keep the election from being stolen again of course....)
Once Dr. Shahram Azam left Iran to tell his story of how Zahra Kazemi was brutally raped and tortured inside a Tehran prison, he knew it wouldn't take long for Iranian agents to track him down.
That made his asylum request to Canada all the more urgent. "We took his case very seriously," said a Canadian official who worked on the file. "The Iranians were almost on his track and the life of Dr. Azam was becoming highly endangered and he could not have stayed in Sweden for much longer without witness protection."
Dr. Azam fled Iran for Sweden in August, 2004, but he wasn't convinced he would be safe there and wanted Canada to accept him, his wife and 12-year-old daughter as government-sponsored refugees.
At a news conference in Ottawa this week, Dr. Azam gave the first account by a medical eyewitness of the brutal injuries Ms. Kazemi suffered after her June 23, 2003, arrest. His account contradicted the official Iranian explanation of the Canadian photojournalist's death — that she died after fainting and hitting her head.
Dr. Azam's fear of remaining in Europe was bolstered by the low acceptance rates of Iranian refugees there, as well as by a long and dangerous history of dissidents being assassinated. According to human-rights and Iranian opposition groups, between 60 and 100 Iranian dissidents were killed in the two decades after the 1979 Islamic revolution, mainly in Europe and the Middle East. And while assassinations of non-violent dissidents appear to have abated in recent years, Iranian secret police attacked an Iranian political science professor and pro-democracy advocate last year in Quetta, Pakistan, where he had sought refuge. Rest at link
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And the Canadian Govt wants do deal with these thugs? Dhimmi North.
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Dr. Azamâs fear of remaining in Europe was bolstered by the low acceptance rates of Iranian refugees there, as well as by a long and dangerous history of dissidents being assassinated.
How reassuring.
Seeking asylum from Mad Mullahs? Don't go to Europe.
Senior Shiite Cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah urged Lebanese officials to hold direct dialogue and initiate a political agenda that would enable the creation of an interim government and the holding of parliamentary elections. The statements of Fadlallah came during his Friday sermon delivered at Al-Imamayn al-Hassanayn mosque in Haret Hreik. "Dialogue is the only solution," Fadlallah said. "Communicate with each other before the elections and after them, and open your hearts to love and tolerance." Addressing Lebanese officials, Fadlallah further said, "You should set up a political agenda, including the creation of a Cabinet that would supervise the elections." Fadlallah said Lebanon is facing an economic crisis and a political vacuum in the wake of American interference and conflict between Lebanese parties.
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Join the cops and form a government. It's what allen decided Wednesday.
In a surprising development, outgoing Interior Minister Suleiman Franjieh took a series of measures against the team of his predecessor Elias Murr, two days after the latter criticized the ministry's performance on security, Al-Mustaqbal newspaper said Friday. According to the newspaper, interim Metn Qaimaqam Marlene Qahwaji, who is close to Murr, was replaced by Aref Bassil, upon Franjieh's orders.
Similar measures led to cancelling the contracts of several people who work at the ministry with the World Bank, such as Maria Daribi. Internal Security Forces personnel closed a bingo hall owned by Gerard Torossian, who is close to Murr, in Sin al-Fil, the newspaper reported. Murr expressed surprise at how security chiefs did not resign after the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri, saying the lack of security that prevailed with the forming of Premier-designate Omar Karami's cabinet gave Murr a satisfying answer regarding Franjieh's insistence on taking the ministry's portfolio from him. bLast October, Franjieh insisted on having the Interior Ministry, headed by Murr at the time.
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Walid Jumblatt warned Friday against any effort to destabilize Lebanon's powerful neighbor Syria, as opposition members seek to overthrow the current loyalist regime with timely parliamentary elections. Jumblatt is a leading member of Lebanon's opposition, which has been pushing for Damascus to relinquish its grip on the country and has strained relations with Syria. Speaking from his home in Mukhtara, the Druze leader also said: "The special ties between Beirut and Damascus should remain in place after the Syrian troop pullout from Lebanon." He added: "I insist on the importance Syria's stability." Jumblatt, who has been seeking European and U.S. support for a full Syrian withdrawal from the country, added: "I cannot join any Western project, Israeli or otherwise, to destabilize Syria."
"The security of Syria is linked to that of Lebanon, and the security of Lebanon is linked to that of Syria. That's my conviction. That's how the Taif Accord wanted it to be," said Jumblatt. Jumblatt's comments were seen as a response to calls by hardliners in Washington for regime change in Syria, whose ties with the United States have been strained since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which Damascus opposed. In recent weeks Lebanon has faced a series of bombings, which the opposition has blamed on the Syrian regime. The opposition has also said that the Lebanese Army is capable of ensuring Lebanon's security without foreign assistance. Jumblatt acknowledged, however, that his own contacts with Damascus were "broken" last September when President Emile Lahoud's term in office was extended by a Syrian-inspired amendment to Lebanon's Constitution. But the former ally of Damascus said Syrian President Bashar Assad had since "recognized the errors committed in Lebanon," where Damascus has been the main political power-broker since the civil war.
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The partisan Ain al-Tineh gathering rejected on Friday Prime Minister-designate Omar Karami's decision to resign after he failed to form a national unity government, saying they "unanimously hold on to him as head of the anticipated cabinet." After the three-hour meeting, Speaker Nabih Berri said: "Karami told us of his willingness to give up as he has not managed to persuade the opposition to take part in a national unity government. But we want him to form a national unity government as soon as possible so that the parliamentary elections can be held." The Ain Al-Tineh gathering, which held its meeting at Berri's residence in Beirut, witnessed the participation of most of the pro-governmental factions in Lebanon, including Hizbullah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, with the noticeable absence of outgoing Agriculture Minister Elias Skaff.
Leaving the meeting, Karami told reporters: "I will try to form a government." Karami was set to step down at a meeting on Wednesday with President Emile Lahoud, but the premier-designate delayed the move pending consultations with his political allies at the Ain Al-Tineh gathering, which joins the country's pro-governmental, pro-Syrian forces. Berri also said that the new government's focus will be on delivering a new electoral law based on the mohafaza (large electoral district) and not the qada (small electoral district) which is a major point of contention between the government and the opposition. Berri said: "We want an electoral law based on the Taif Accord, and the Taif Accord calls for the adoption of mohafaza as an electoral district. We will not agree on anything else."
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Ambassador Boutros Assaker, the secretary general of the Lebanese Foreign Affairs Ministry, will inform UN Security Council's members of Lebanon's stand regarding the international probe committee investigating the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. Outgoing Lebanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Hammoud said Thursday the Lebanese delegation to the UN, which Assaker heads, "will discuss with UN Secretary General Kofi Anan the basic rules, which Lebanon has set for appointing the members of the committee." Hammoud stressed the need for the international body to "take into consideration the importance of Lebanon's national sovereignty and internal laws."
The Security Council's presidency is shifting hands, and "will convene on Monday to address this matter," UN sources said. The Council is expected to vote on a draft resolution establishing an international probe into Hariri's murder once its new president has been determined. Meanwhile, Investigative magistrate Elias Eid, who was assigned to investigate the Hariri assassination, has prepared a list of 45 witnesses to be heard in connection with the case. Eid listened to the statements of Surete General Director-General Major General Jamil Sayyed and Internal Security Forces Director-General Major General Ali Hajj. Sayyed affirmed the content of a formal request he submitted in a recent news conference regarding accusations leveled against him by the opposition. He called for the statements of his accusers and proof of the accusations to be heard, expressing his willingness to respond to the claims and reserving the right to press charges personally.
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A good and surprisingly upbeat MSM assessment of Iraq's political progress. THE post-election script for democratic Iraq looked very different. Two months after polling day, a new government was expected to be firmly in charge of Baghdad's key institutions, launching bold initiatives and charting a fresh national course.
The interregnum since January's vote has seen the two victorious party coalitions, the Shia House and the Kurdish Alliance, locked in internal disputes over the precise composition of their ministry. And efforts to invite the Sunni Muslims, Iraq's third main group, into the new administration are proceeding at glacial pace, even as the continued struggle against insurgency commands the attention of the US occupying forces.
Why, then, is the country not falling apart? Who actually runs Iraq, and does it, with its new federal model, even need a strong central government? All too clearly, the present power vacuum has had no adverse effects. Oil continues to flow from the country's fields, reconstruction proceeds apace, and the slow task of establishing a viable civil society is under way from Basra, near the shoreline of the Persian Gulf to the Kurdish enclave in the far north.
Although the "good news" blogs that compile instances of Iraq's progress tend to present an over-rosy picture, the consistent progress being achieved on the ground, away from the headlines, highlights one of the stranger truths about post-Saddam Iraq: the country has devolved into a set of local fiefs, each effectively administering itself.
The lack of a central government with democratic legitimacy since the election result was announced has been an inconvenience rather than a disaster. Several key networks and power centres combine across the country to maintain a degree of order. Almost every village or suburban district is presided over by a dominant land-owning family or regional political chieftain. Religious leaders in local mosques have great influence, while local mayors and even police commanders have also taken on critical authority. All these structures have grown or have strengthened immeasurably in the two years since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and the shattering of the Baath Party's surveillance and patronage system.
Arab societies, long used to authoritarian controls and police states, have tended to evolve authentic and responsive local channels of power. This has been the case in the new Iraq.
It is common, in the Shia southern part of the country and even in the poorer districts of Baghdad, to find the preacher at a small mosque regarded as a political and moral authority, decider of disputes and dispenser of advice. A similar role is played in Sunni regions by the heads of large, interconnected tribal groups that run businesses, dispense charity and provide a political lead for the entire community. In the Kurdish north, a different system has developed over the past 12 years since full autonomy from Iraqi central control was achieved by a successful rebellion.
Local governmental structures, based on tribal lines of authority, have become the key to the success of the Kurdish region. Meanwhile, the heavy influx of Kurdish intellectuals and professionals returning from exile has spurred a cultural and social renaissance, marked by the rapid development of a law-based society. Corruption is rare, regional pride and Kurdish national consciousness is high.
Similar conclusions would almost certainly be reported increasingly across the country, if Western journalists were able to move more freely there. So should MSM articles about Iraq contain a disclaimer - We don't actually know what is happening, so we speculate based on ignorance. The relative weakness of the central Government implanted last year in the run-up to the formal "hand-back" of sovereignity in June itself underlines two critical points about the new Iraq.
First, the interim administration presided over by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, for all its determination to restore Iraqi unity, lacked the sole persuasive argument Saddam Hussein relied upon: fear. Second, the US occupying forces, despite their obtrusive presence, have had relatively little impact on the structures of Iraqi society, and the local politicians linked with them have not benefited from the association.
This is because Iraq has evolved over the past 30 years since the Baathist dictatorship took hold as a society of resistance, determined to fight against supreme authority. Like all Arab societies, it functions best at the level of the individual street or neighbourhood, where Islamic injunctions to help fellow Muslims have real force. Despite the destructive effects of the Baathist system, and the overwhelming chaos caused by the US invasion and the political transformations attempted in the 24 months since US troops rolled into Baghdad, Iraq remains a network of small, "high social capital" communities, well able to run itself without central leadership.
Once this is grasped, much that seems incomprehensible about Iraq today falls into place. The action of the Iraqi police recruits, who voluntarily put themselves at risk from insurgents, becomes logical: they want to serve in the national security forces because they wish to protect their communities. The resolve of the 8 million Iraqi voters who took part in the elections last January did not stem from some abstract love for democracy: it marked a strong commitment to the rights of their fellow citizens.
A new national governing coalition in Iraq is only days away, and the country's difficult transition to a distinctive form of parliamentary democracy is about to begin, but the lesson of the past two months is clear: in simple and definite fashion, it shows how deep and how efficient the country's established social patterns already are.
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Oh, my stars! Somehow they have avoided the strong central government and bureaucracy like the EU (good), and have instead chosen the flawed and unfair local authority like they have in the US (bad)! The poor brutes aren't able to be bossed around from their capital city, so they have to do it themselves, how tragic and chaotic! /sarcasm
Pakistan's self-exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto yesterday said she hoped to return to the country soon "after the return of democracy".
"On our part we are trying our best to find ways as to how to speed up the process of return of democracy in Pakistan," Benazir told reporters on her arrival in Jaipur, capital of Indian state of Rajasthan. Meanwhile, she said she hoped to be able to return to Pakistan "soon after the return of democracy." However Benazir ruled out any agitation against Musharraf's rule. "In the present international scenario we are not thinking in these terms," she said. Bhutto, who governed Pakistan twice between 1988 and 1996, was accompanied by her husband Asif Ali Zardari, who was released from eight years imprisonment in Pakistan last June on charges of murder and corruption.
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âOn our part we are trying our best to find ways as to how to speed up the process of return of democracy in Pakistan,â
A man who set up his own religious cult was sentenced to 39 months' imprisonment yesterday, and his 11 followers received jail terms of one year, court officials said. A State Security Court convicted Ahmad Ebrahim Abu Shusha, a 47-year-old merchant, of propagating extremist ideas in violation of Islam, forcing his followers to pledge that they would commit suicide if they breached their loyalty to him, and carrying a knife, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Police arrested his group in August as it held a meeting in Qalyoubia, 20km north of Cairo. The prosecution said the group did not believe in the five daily prayers of Islam and taught that people should make pilgrimages to cemeteries. The court sentenced Abu Shusha to three years and three months' imprisonment plus a fine of 5,000 Egyptian pounds (Dh3,200), the officials said. His 11 followers, who included three women, were sentenced to one year's imprisonment each for blasphemy and contempt of religion. They were also fined 2,000 pounds (Dh1,300). A child of 16 stood trial in a separate court on the same charge, but was acquitted. There is no appeal of verdicts of the State Security Court, except to President Hosni Mubarak.
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Sudanese hard-liners vowed Friday to defy a U.N. Security Council resolution referring Darfur war crimes suspects to the International Criminal Court, saying it was unfair for Sudanese suspects to face the tribunal when Americans are exempt. Sudan opposes sending any of its citizens accused of committing war crimes during the two-year conflict in the country's west to a foreign court, saying Sudan's judicial system will take charge of any such prosecutions. The U.N. resolution passed Thursday only after controversial concessions were made, including guarantees that citizens of countries not party to the ICC working in Sudan _ such as the United States _ would not be handed over to the court or any other nation's judiciary if they committed crimes in the African country.
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Just like the UN to watch that horror occur then come marching in some sort of moral outrage to exact whatever those bureacratic whores decide justice ought to be. Useless pigs.
Defying the UN doesn't exactly take a brass pair considering its common worldwide knowledge the UN & ICC are enormously corrupt clusterf*cks. Willfully obeying any of its rulings is plain stupid, as it undermines any country's sovereignty. The only way either entity has of enforcing any of its rulings it to threaten to send a boatload of blue helmeted kiddie diddlers to your front door.
The Euro's and lefty Americans are the only ones who have any faith in that tranzi "Citizen of the World" garbage.
That whole pile of crap belongs on the trash heap of history already.
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Abu Dhabi: Books and information should not be banned or withheld from the public, the Minister of Education said yesterday. Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Education, said that people have the right to choose what to read and not to read. He was inaugurating the 15th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. "We live in an age in which people should be supplied with all kinds of information through different media. All people have the right to choose and select information and are wise enough to make that choice. No book should be banned and no information should be withheld from the public in this day and age."
The Council of Ministers recently submitted a file containing 25 documents to Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr 
More than 5,000 Qataris, who have lost their citizenship following an emiri decree, have described the government decision as "arbitrary" and said it violated international charters. According to Al-Riyadh Arabic newspaper, which managed to obtain a copy of the emiri decree, a total of 5,266 people from 
Kuwait named a new information minister on Wednesday, two months after his predecessor quit as he was about to be questioned in parliament over allowing "immoral" Western-style concerts in the country. The Emir, His Highness Shaikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah, appointed Anas Mohammad Ahmad Al Reshaid to the post, the state news agency Kuna said. Former minister Mohammad Abulhassan resigned in January before he was due to be questioned by Islamist MPs over several allegations, including approving concerts in the country which were seen by the lawmakers as violating Sharia law.
Senior Shiite Cleric Sayyed 
In a surprising development, outgoing Interior Minister 
The partisan Ain al-Tineh gathering rejected on Friday Prime Minister-designate 
Ambassador Boutros Assaker, the secretary general of the Lebanese Foreign Affairs Ministry, will inform UN Security Council's members of Lebanon's stand regarding the international probe committee investigating the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. Outgoing Lebanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Hammoud said Thursday the Lebanese delegation to the UN, which Assaker heads, "will discuss with UN Secretary General Kofi Anan the basic rules, which Lebanon has set for appointing the members of the committee." Hammoud stressed the need for the international body to "take into consideration the importance of Lebanon's national sovereignty and internal laws."
Pakistan's self-exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto yesterday said she hoped to return to the country soon "after the return of democracy". 
Sudanese hard-liners vowed Friday to defy a U.N. Security Council resolution referring Darfur war crimes suspects to the International Criminal Court, saying it was unfair for Sudanese suspects to face the tribunal when Americans are exempt. Sudan opposes sending any of its citizens accused of committing war crimes during the two-year conflict in the country's west to a foreign court, saying Sudan's judicial system will take charge of any such prosecutions. The U.N. resolution passed Thursday only after controversial concessions were made, including guarantees that citizens of countries not party to the ICC working in Sudan _ such as the United States _ would not be handed over to the court or any other nation's judiciary if they committed crimes in the African country.
