In a subway system where aid ads implore commuters to side with “civilized” Israeli occupation forces against “savage” Muslims, a patron sides with the psychopaths, shoving a Hindu man to his death and then explaining to police, “I hate Hindus and Muslims — ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up”:
- Psychiatric Examination Ordered for Suspect in Death of Man Shoved in Front of NYC Subway (AP / Washington Post)
Talk about bad tenants! “Rows of air conditioning units stuck out of a damaged wall, a giant, dilapidated generator was marooned near shipping containers and twisted, dented vehicles remained. But there was no sign of a cheque for a landlord who said years of rent, running to hundreds of thousands of dollars, was owing to him”:
Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch flaunts its contempt for the protection Islamic law given envoys by offering a bounty of “three kilograms of gold worth $160,000 for killing”of the American ambassador:
- Yemen: Al-Qaida Offers Bounty for US Ambassador (AP / abc News)
“Essam al-Erian, deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party” declared, “Every Egyptian has a right to live in his country” and “questioned why former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser expelled the Jews from Egypt in the first place”:
- Muslim Brotherhood Official Calls on Egyptian Jews to Return (Jewish Telegraph Agency)
Missing Gadhaffi yet? Now the murder of Egyptian Christians can be added to the attacks “against Sufi shrines and mosques that witnesses say were carried out by militant Islamists”:
Despite the fact that pieces of gravel could be used as a weapons to throw against heavily armed Israeli soldiers by otherwise unarmed Palestinian demonstrators …
- Israel Allows Gravel into Gaza for First Time Since Hamas Takeover (Christian Science Monitor)
… and the high court rules that Haneen Zoabi cannot be barred from running because she was a victim of Israel’s attack on the Gaza relief flotilla:
“YouTube was unblocked on 29 December following government work on a filtering system designed to stop people seeing blasphemous material. However, when the filter proved ineffective the Pakistan government re-imposed its blanket ban on the site”:
Although there has been “no claim of responsibility for the blast,” Human Rights Watch says “the government’s failure to catch or prosecute attackers [in such killings of Shiites] suggested it was ‘indifferent’ to” them:
- Â Pakistan Militants Attack Muslim Pilgrims (Christian Science Monitor)
With the rebels set back by the regime’s return to the strategic city of Homs, UN negotiator Lakhdar Ibrahimi warns that a hundred thousand more could die and Syria end up ruled by Somali-style warlords unless their foreign backers pressure the warring parties to the negotiating table:
- Syria Government Forces Retake Homs District (BBC)
- Syrian Crisis ‘Could Kill 100,000 in Next Year’ (Guardian)
- No End to Syria War if Sides Refuse to Talk: Envoy (Reuters)
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