“This smells of persecution…. In a free country … this should simply not be happening” – Father Wilfredo Benitez, rector of St. Anselm of Canterbury Episcopal Church in Garden Grove:
Without full implementation of “the specific provisions laid out for the two states [of South Kordofan and Blue Nile] in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement,” the secretary-general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement- North (SPLM-N) says the spreading conflict is “about democracy and transformation. The issue is about how Sudan is going to be ruledâ€:
- North Sudan’s Post-independence Conflict Spreads to Blue Nile State (Christian Science Monitor)
“The lesson, of course, is that too few check with snopes.com or some other reputable source. It’s more fun to hate, to reach for the rope…. Lincoln once said a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth ever catches up with it. Sometimes by the time it does our foolish reactions can ruin lives”:
- A Lesson From a Muslim (Chatenoogan)
Describing himself as “a strict social conservative, a fiscal conservative, a very strict constitutionalist” Nezar Hamze tries to organize a Muslim Republican club and is greeted by a “un-Welcome Mat”:
- Fear of a Republican Muslim (Salon)
As hunted strongman releases an audio recording insisting that he hasn’t and won’t leave Libya, the “high cost of bringing down Gadhafi’s nearly 42-year-rule over the oil-rich nation, meanwhile, came into sharper relief, as the country’s interim health minister announced that at least 30,000 people were killed and 50,000 wounded during the six-month civil war”:
Sir William Gage condemns “members of the battalion for their lack of moral courage to report abuse’” with revelation that a ‘large number’ of soldiers assaulted Mr Mousa and the other detainees”:
“A special Bahraini court has released on bail 20 Shia Muslim medics being tried for their role in a month-long pro-democracy protest, including many who had gone on hunger strike”:
- Bahrain Medics Freed on Bail (AlJazeera)
“There is very, very serious pressure on us but at the end of the day Abu Mazen [Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas] … has no choice‚ and no one can blame him” after twenty years of failed negotiations — Mohammad Shtayyeh, a senior member of the UN bound Palestinian team:
Israel wil not be on Erdogan’s itinerary of his “Â four-day tour [beginning] on September 12 to discuss ‘opportunities for co-operation’ with the countries undergoing democratic transitions”:
- Israel Rejects Turkish Claims of ‘Disloyalty’ (AlJazeera)
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