I think maybe it’s too late for a “cure.” This is one of those things that by the time we recognized it, it had already metastisized and has become fatal.
AN AMAZING MUST SEE VIDEO!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-p2GHH1Glo
It’s Catching On .. Fire ! — Koran Burned In Iran ( Freedom from Religion is Possible )
A simple action can set you F R E E - Aim Spray Set ( ASS )
Two anonymous young men in Iran, one Iranian and one Afghan, have burned a Koran in protest. This seven-and-a-half minute long video shows the two men, their faces obscured, holding the Muslim holy book and reading prepared statements. They say that Arabs have foisted this book and their homelands and because of it they have gone backwards for 1400 years. They say they dislike the Koran and want it to disappear, adding “Viva freedom!”
Afterwards they stand the Koran on a flat rock, douse it alcohol and light it. One of them hoots and laughs. The book burns fiercely, and after a few moments one of them sprays more alcohol into the flames. The video ends with them warming their hands over the blazing book.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/palestinian-institutions-ready-statehood-u-n-20110412-070929-139.html
Excerpt:
..Palestinian institutions ready for statehood: U.N
By Mohammed Assadi | Reuters – Tue, 12 Apr, 2011 10:09 AM EDT
.........RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority is ready to run an independent state but will struggle to make further institutional progress due to the restrictions of the Israeli occupation, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
The U.N. report followed equally upbeat assessments of the PA’s nation-building achievements released over the past week by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The positive statements comes before a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday of aid donor countries which will review Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s drive to construct the framework of a state by mid-2011.
“In six areas where the U.N. is most engaged, governmental functions are now sufficient for a functioning government of a state,” said the report, entitled “Palestinian State-building: A Decisive Period.”
It listed the six areas as rule of law and human rights; livelihoods; education and culture; health; social protection; and infrastructure and water.
However, it said the PA could not make significant further advances given the continued Israeli occupation of much of the West Bank and a breakdown in Middle East peace talks.
“Measures of occupation which stifle Palestinian life need to be fundamentally rolled back by more far reaching Israeli actions to match the progress of the state-building program,” the report said.
Direct negotiations aimed at ending the decades-old conflict broke down last September following a dispute over continued Jewish settlement building on the West Bank.
Given the impasse, Palestinian leaders aim to ask the United Nations General Assembly in September for recognition of statehood on all of the territory Israel occupied in 1967, including Gaza — over which the PA has no control.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/egypt-army-sets-limits-free-speech-hrw-20110412-011630-919.html
Excerpt:
..Rights groups condemn Egypt blogger jail sentence
By Tom Pfeiffer and Isabel Coles | Reuters – Tue, 12 Apr, 2011 11:05 AM EDT
.........CAIRO (Reuters) - The sentencing of a blogger to jail for criticizing Egypt’s army has drawn a chorus of objections from rights groups, who say the country’s ruling military council is drawing red lines around free speech.
Maikel Nabil, 26, was taken from his home in Cairo by five military officers early on March 28 and charged with insulting the military establishment and “spreading false information,” New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
Nabil’s lawyers were told the judge would rule on Tuesday but discovered he had already been sentenced in their absence on Sunday, HRW cited defense lawyer Adel Ramadan as saying.
“Maikel Nabil’s three-year sentence may be the worst strike against free expression in Egypt since the Mubarak government jailed the first blogger for four years in 2007,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at HRW. He urged the army to drop all the charges and release Nabil immediately.
Activists suspect anything from hundreds to thousands of Egyptians are being held and tried before military courts behind closed doors after President Hosni Mubarak’s ousting on February 11.
“The methods used by the Egyptian military do not seem to have evolved since Hosni Mubarak’s fall,” said Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-Francois Julliard.
“A civilian should not be tried by a military court. This is not the way things are done in the democratic society to which Egyptians aspire,” he added.