[DAWN] THE large number of dead and maimed in Friday's massacre of the faithful in a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano once again highlights the danger which 'religious' militancy poses not only to the sub-Saharan country but to the entire Islamic world. No one had so far grabbed credit for the butchery during Friday prayers, but the fingerprints are those of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , which presumably wanted to show its power to Kano's emir, who had recently asked the people to take up arms against the murderous Moslems. Believing in the physical elimination of anyone with whom it differs, Boko Haram has killed 2,000 civilians in 95 attacks in the first six months of this year. Women and students are its special target. Last April, it kidnapped almost 300 schoolgirls and claimed they had been converted to Islam and married off. So far, Boko Haram has kidnapped 500 women since the insurgency began in 2009. Earlier last week, two jacket wallahs, one of them a woman, targeted a crowded market in the north, killing and wounding dozens, and a student suicide bomber spread death and destruction at a boarding school, killing 50 young men.
We in Pakistain know from experience that there are no short cuts to combating and eliminating a highly motivated insurgency. The emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... in many northern states is now more than a year old, but the murderous Moslems' power has remained unscathed. Politics is also in the way, and most parties in the northeast, which is a murderous Moslem stronghold, do not agree with the government's counter-insurgency strategy. The army lacks modern equipment, and this, many people allege, is part of many African governments' policy to keep the armies weak to deter coups. Nigeria has no choice but to develop a national strategy to destroy Boko Haram's network. As in Pakistain, the Nigerian government has neglected education, forcing people to send their children to the murderous Moslems' schools. This enables the bandidosLions of Islam to brainwash young minds and turn them into mass murderers.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] This is yet another sickening narrative in the world of crime that has given us the right to ask: isn't it about time to reconsider provisions that allow criminals to be released and escape punishment under the excuse of a victim's family pardon? Doesn't the society also have the right to punish this criminal - a right that's as important as that of the victim's family?
Five years ago, four men killed an Æthiopian maid in a Gulf country. The police described the incident as "one of the most sickening crimes of assault and rape" witnessed in Gulf societies. The Æthiopian girl, in her 20s, was found with her head smashed. She was also stabbed in several places in her body and the perpetrators had tried to strangle her.
The horrific extent of the crime clearly shows the perpetrators are violent criminals who must be tried without any pity whatsoever. The Æthiopian girl had arrived in the Gulf country three months prior to her death, and she was found killed after her employer reported she was missing.
Investigations revealed that the crime did not happen spontaneously, but was actually planned and carried out by the four perpetrators. Criminality is in their blood and it actually turned out that one of the defendants had committed a terrible crime in the past. Twelve years before this incident, he along with two other men were convicted of abducting a 13-year-old Pak girl and killing her in the same atrocious manner in which the Æthiopian girl was killed. The court sentenced all three men to execution. Two men were executed while the other man - who participated in murdering the Æthiopian girl - escaped execution after the girl's family pardoned him. He then committed another crime and received the same ruling of pardon from execution following a decision by the victim's family.
A threat to society
We are not saying these criminals in particular must be condemned and severely punished - though it's a must to severely punish them - but we hope that those in charge of the judiciary reconsider the concept of the public's right to punishment as how can people who commit premeditated murder escape maximum penalty? How can they escape any severe penalty after spending a few years in jail and be released just because the victim's family pardoned them! What about the society's right? Isn't there a purpose to punishment in sharia? Isn't it the justice institutions' duty to achieve justice, help protect people and deter evil people? Releasing the criminal who participated in killing a Pak girl a few years after jailing him is what led to him committing the second crime of murdering the Æthiopian girl.
There is a private right and a public right when considering major felonies. The private right is that of the victim's family has the right to pardon the killer. We don't rule out the possibility that this pardon might result from fear of the criminal and his family or it might be a result of greed in blood money that's sometimes worth tens of millions. However even an honest concession of this private right must not make the authorities commute the public right's to punishing criminals as jailing a defendant who intentionally kills an innocent person for only five or ten years makes this killer equal to someone who committed theft.
This leniency has made criminals look forward to the pardon of the family's victim as this pardon saves them from execution. Crimes have become many and so sickening that the judiciary is asked to become stricter. Victim families are also asked to be less lenient when giving up their rights and severe punishment must be no less than 30 years. This is how it should be in order to achieve justice, protect society and distinguish between he who robbed a shop and he who intentionally killed a human being.
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What I saw was, the bear was sleeping quietly until someone insisted on poking it. Repeatedly.
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Anyone notice a significant increase in Western European defense spending? Bueller?
Remember when Reagan wanted to station intermediate ballistic missiles in Europe and all the large agitprop demonstrations against it. Where are all the demonstration against current Russian imperialism? Bueller?
[DAWN] WHILE much of the world has attained polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... -free status, and polio-endemic countries like Afghanistan and Nigeria are at least moving in the right direction, Pakistain, the only other polio-endemic country, is on a deadly backward slide. The tally so far this year, 260 and counting, is the highest number of cases in a year since 2000. The complex environment that bedevils the polio eradication effort in this country was brought home once again last Thursday when four polio workers, three of them women, were killed and three others injured when gunnies attacked them in Quetta. Rumours, which later proved unfounded, that WHO was terminating anti-polio operations in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... following the murders sowed panic among health officials.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the issue of security, starkly illustrated by the murder of more than 60 polio workers or members of their security detail in Pakistain since 2012, is only one of several obstacles that hamper polio vaccination campaigns here. Refusals by parents occur with disturbing frequency throughout the country, even among more educated, urban populations. The government could take a leaf out of India's book in this respect: the country achieved polio-free status earlier this year and has earned international accolades for its innovative programme and homegrown strategies. Significantly, refusals there were reportedly found most often among Moslem communities. As a result, in 2004 for example, 62pc of polio cases in India were among Moslem children -- Moslems account for only 13pc of the population. To address this, Learned Elders of Islam committees which included representatives of various Moslem sects as well as a doctor were formed to allay parental reservations regarding polio vaccinations. This strategy is believed to have tipped the balance in favour of the anti-polio effort in India. In Pakistain, an initiative some years ago involving holy mans in a polio communication campaign achieved appreciable results and it should be revitalised with added innovations in light of the Indian experience. The effort must be reinforced by a sustained media campaign, particularly on TV and radio, in order to wrest the narrative from those who peddle misinformation about the 'danger' posed by the polio vaccine. It may also be time to consider linking sanctions with parental refusals, perhaps in the form of making the issuance or renewal of certain documents contingent upon parents allowing their children to be vaccinated. While such measures may seem drastic, the situation has assumed such critical proportions that it needs to be tackled on a war footing.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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