[Al Ahram] Public prosecutors in the Upper Egyptian Luxor governorate on Thursday ordered the detention of a Coptic-Christian schoolteacher for four days pending investigation on charges that she had insulted the Islamic faith.
Demyana Emad, a 23-year old social studies teacher, was charged with insulting Islam and the Prophet Mohamed at a primary school in south Luxor, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday.
The complaint was first filed in April when the head of the parents association at the Sheikh Sultan Primary School lodged a complaint with the Luxor Educational Directorate.
Emad, for her part, denies the accusations and has demanded that additional witnesses be brought to support the accusations. She says that, during a Thursday hearing, several Islamic "extremists" had incited school students to testify against her.
Recent years have seen mounting tension between Egypt's Coptic-Christian minority -- thought to account for roughly 10 percent of Egypt's population of almost 90 million -- and the Moslem majority.
Similar accusations were made in July of last year, when a Coptic teacher was sentenced to six years in prison for posting pictures on Facebook deemed defamatory to Islam and Prophet Mohamed.
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"I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone," he wrote in a piece for Prospect magazine, which was carried by the Mail&Guardian. Confronting evil with common sense, truth, and sanity makes me very sad.
"I am not a card-carrying kommunis member of any political party," he said. Tutu said there was a need for change in the country. "Change" defined as, from your hand to mine, better known as unimpeded social justice.
The African National Congress had been "very good" with substantial help and a blind eye from the west at leading the country in the struggle to be free from ppression.
"They were a good terrorist freedom-fighting unit. But it doesn't seem to me now that a freedom-fighting unit can easily make the transition to becoming a political party." The light bulb came on! Ah yes, governance is quite difficult whilst simultaneously engaged in rape, pillage, and plunder. New oppressors worse than old oppressors ek se.
He said the "first thing" the next elected Parliament had to do was to change the electoral system so one was elected on the basis of the constituency, and would be accountable to the electorate. "Those in Parliament are accountable to their party first rather than the electorate."
Tutu wrote that although the country had the capacity to be one of the most vibrant countries in the world, it had the most unequal society in the world. "We can't hold our heads up with pride when you think of the levels of violence in our country." Simply keep your head below the top of the security wall and you'll be fine.
He wrote that South Africans were "amazing." They had been committed to freedom during the political struggle, and had been ready to lay down their lives. "But now one can point to so many instances of corruption, of unaccountability," he wrote. "Seeing how standards have dropped is so galling, because it seems to give ammunition to those who would say: 'we warned you that once you had a black majority government you would see a steady decline in standards." I'm afraid the naysayers need no additional proof in that regard.
Permit me to suggest that Sud Afrika has has just about all the social justice it can handle. Nice that Desi has finally wised up. Sad that Yet Another People's Revolution was just Let's throw out those rascals and put our rascals in.
It has always been a wonder to me that the American Revolution didn't turn into this. (not until lately anyway) George Washington could have been President for Life if he wanted.
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Holy men should stay out of politics...separate church and state...unless you want Copts going to jail for insulting the Prophet. Stay in the church and preach the gospel according to Matthew, Luke, Mark and John. Leave it to Mandela to preach the gospel according to Karl Marx.
[Al Ahram] A fire at a garment factory killed eight people Thursday in the latest disaster to hit Bangladesh's textile industry, still reeling from the death of more than 950 people in a building collapse.
The cause of the fire was not known, but authorities said it broke out during the night on the third floor of an 11-storey building housing garment factories of the Tung Hai group in Dhaka's Darussalam district.
The Tung Hai's owner was among the victims, but there were no workers among the casualties since there was no overnight production, police and fire service officials said.
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Stalin died in 1953. Doubt it will take quite 60 years for great monuments to Champ to begin to appear, but I'll surely be long gone by then anyway. An obvious upside.
No problem, our borders are secure and free of drug smugglers, illegals, and terrorists right? It's a 40 year old ship. The Nigerians want it, they can have it.
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probably cost more too make it a reef or scrap iyt than too give it away
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Whuzzabout the Philippines - two hand-me-down, ex-HAMILTON-class vessels aren't gonna do much agz the PLA, PLAN, CMS-SOA, etc. vee China's new increasingly militarized offshore Sansha province in the disputed SCS.
Things continue to be highly tensive ...
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [GAM News Online] PHIL SOLGEN:"WE WANT LEGAL, NOT JUST MORAL, VICTORY IN WEST PHIL SEA ROW [wid China = SCS]".
PHIL Solicitor-General Francis Jardeleza.
"Legal" by itself isn't enuff either, as the PHIL must have a strong economy in order to have a strong Military, etc. that can reliably defend what the UNO = UNCLOS + other Internationally recognized Regulatory Bodies/Orgs can't, or won't.
* TOPIX > CHINA WARNS US [again] NOT TO TAKE SIDES IN DIAOYU ISLANDS ROW.
* SAME > CHINA'S ARMY OF WA. China's silent intervention in Myanmar is increasingly not-so-silent, or neutral, anymore???
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > JAPAN DECLARES PROPAGANDA WAR ON CHINA, KOREA, AND RUSSIA OVER DISPUTED TERRITORIES.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PHILIPPINE NAVY STRAFES CHINESE [fishing] BOAT, KILLING ONE.
* RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SHOOTING CALLS FOR STRONG COUNTER-MEASURES - OPED- GLOBALTIMES.CN.
This may NOT end well.
ARTIC = denotes or infers that the PHIL may had shot at a Taiwanese Fishing boat out of angst agz mainland China over the disputed SCS.
THE PHIL HAVE A MUCHO BEEF AGZ BEIJING, THUS THEY INVADE SABAH = MALAYSIA, + NOW FIRE AT A TAIWANESE FISHBOAT???
* SAME > PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD ADMITS SHOOTING AT TAIWAN BOAT | INQUIRER.GLOBALNATION.NET.
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FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > AFP [Armed Forces of PHIL = PHIL Navy] READY TO REPEL CHINESE FLEET[fishing = circa 30 ea. vessels], repor headed to the disputed Spratly Islands [China = Nansha Islands].
Don't think Taiwan, let alone Beijing = mainland China, is gonna stand for the PHIL using de facto heavily armed Navy warships to oppose unarmed Fishing Boats.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN PROTESTS TO CHINA OVER OKINAWA CLAIM.
* SAME > BLOGGER = opined that any INTER-CHINESE [PRC-ROC] REUNIFICATION SHOULD INVOLVE THE FORMAL ANNEXATION BY POST-REUNIFIED CHINA OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE PHILIPPINES???
Oh my.
* SAME > [Ladakh]INCURSION WON'T PUSH INDIA INTO SIGNING BORDER DEAL [wid China]: KHURSHID - TIMES OF INDIA.
How ironic that the "Great/Major" Powers try to avoid confrontation only to see lessor Powers/Nations renew the flames, e.g. Afghan-vs-Pak border clashes + ASEAN???
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II has arrived in Rome to begin a historic visit to the Vatican. The pope will meet with his Catholic counterpart, the recently elected Pope Francis, on Friday.
The visit will be the first time a Coptic Orthodox leader has visited the Vatican in 40 years. This is also the first overseas trip by Pope Tawadros II since his anointment in November.
The meeting between the two popes will aim to foster greater dialogue between Catholic and Coptic Christians.
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It may signal pre move discussions. Egypt is not too keen on their Coptic brethren.....
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It's already up someplace else. They're losing control and starting to become desperate. The mask is about to fall. Their true nature is about to come out.
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"The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law..."
First, I wasn't aware that the State Department had jurisdiction to shutter this sort of information.
Second, how is this company subject to 'international arms control law'? I thought that US citizens are governed solely by US laws. If they meant that there was a US law which was enforcing international arms control laws in the US they should have stated that.
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So - under what authority does the State Department 'order' private firms around?
This seems much like a lawyer sending someone an 'order' to cease and desist doing something. The laywer has no such authority and has to go thru a court.
If the discussions and debate were intellectually stimulating, I wouldn't mind commenting but frankly, even I know you can't put SH*T back into a horse...
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I don't think it works with either animal, but am unwilling to conduct the experiments.
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Because ITAR restrictions worked so well when they tried it on crypto back in the '90s. Managed to take something that was obscure and nerdy and turn it into well-known and cool to work on.
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ITAR is for controlling international arms sales; seems to me that nothing was offered for sale, just posted for viewing. ITAR violation will be hard to prove.
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Sorry, the genie is out of the bottle.
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Can you print 3D-printers with a 3D-printer?
At least one of them has that as its goal. There are problems like motors and electronics, but most of the pieces they're using for those are dirt-cheap off-the-shelf pieces. The structural bits... they're getting there.
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A 3-D printer and a robot could join forces and take over the world.
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A 3-D printer and a robot could join forces and take over the world.
I am more worried about 3D printers and over-the-counter robotic technology being shared online & then used by jihadis. We're not far from robotic booby-traps with .45-ACP stingers.
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Ideas like the 3d printer or other technology will go viral and you cannot stop them. That is because regular joes are always more creative, smarter, and motivated than government bureaucrats.
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And it is not too hard to get into their OODA loops. Bureaucrats are reactive, not proactive.
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Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, has died, according to a family friend, who said she was confirming the news on behalf of the family per the U.S. Embassy. Early reports said he was killed in Tijuana, but details are still emerging.
"Too much tragedy for one family" was a common refrain as the announcement spread on social media, and condolences poured in.
"Family members have confirmed his death and that he was in Mexico but have not confirmed the exact location or circumstances of how Malcolm Shabazz died. Malcolm Shabazz is survived by two daughters, his mother and several aunts. I think we can rule out old age. Acute cirrhosis?
"Malcolm Shabazz pled guilty and was found guilty of manslaughter and arson and was sentenced to 18 months in Juvenile detention. His stay was extended and he was released four years later. Years later he told the Amsterdam News that he had not set the fire.
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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
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Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, has died, according to a family friend, who said she was confirming the news on behalf of the family per the U.S. Embassy. Early reports said he was killed in Tijuana, but details are still emerging. 
