News and Analysis (5/7/14)

With pressure building for action to save the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram and threatened with sale into slavery …

… it is important to recognize how the repression of the movement’s nonviolent founder led to the rise of its current terrorist leader …

… and it would help if the media would stop mistranslating “boko” as “Western education, when in reality it “is a word that came to be applied to a century-old British colonial education policy that many Hausa-speakers saw as an attempt, more-or-less, to colonize their minds”:

“Senator Rand Paul and the American Civil Liberties Union are threatening to derail the confirmation of one of President Barack Obama’s nominees to the federal judiciary until the Obama administration releases secret legal opinions the nominee wrote blessing the killing of US citizens without trial in extreme circumstances”:

“Andalusia was one of the wonders of what we now call multi-culturalism. The Spanish don’t want it back” — Robert Fisk:

Sisi’s campaign promise in the face of the economic disaster military appropriation and mismanagement of the economy is to force people to work “harder and longer” and to destroy the Muslim Brotherhood:

The “fiercely pro-business” newspaper has hypocritically “used the restaurant chain’s business decision to whip up another story” warning that “the eight million strong non-white minority groups will more than double in total to 20 million”” and ignoring the fact that Jewish and Muslim slaughter methods prioritise animal welfare“:

“Police have arrested three of the eight men and are hunting for the others. East Aceh police chief Lt. Col. Hariadi said those arrested are being questioned on charges of rape…. The criminal charge of rape carries a maximum penalty of 15 years”:

Erdogan’s demand for “the extradition of Pennsylvania-based Islamist preacher Fethullah Gulen … is very unlikely to be approved,” but its denial “is something which will help Erdogan domestically,” as it will permit him to parlay growing anti-American sentiment into votes:

“Recommendations, which are not binding, included scrapping exit visas which can prevent immigrant workers leaving, and giving legal protection against what Belgium said was ‘persistence of violence against women and girls’”:

“President Moncef Marzouki…, addressing Tunisian jihadis, said, ‘You are fighting an imaginary enemy’ and death won’t lead to martyrdom. He said the offer applies only to those who haven’t killed”:


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