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Reshaping of the geography of South Asia in order to combat international terrorism has become necessary. The entire terrorism network has been managed by terrorist forces stationed in Pakistan under the safe umbrella of Government of Pakistan. These terrorist forces have taken the shelter of Islamic identity in order to implement their dangerous designs of dominating South Asia and make it an Islamic territory altogether thereby driving out Christians, Hindus and Sikhs living in India. The ultimate scheme was first made during the lifetime of late General Zia-ul-Haq who can be termed as the main actor towards this direction. The...

Speaking at Saturday's opening session of the National Council of La Raza convention, former U.S. President Bill Clinton accused the Republican Party of using the immigration issue to divide Congress and the nation. "It is a way of creating a divided community and distracting people from the real challenges facing the country, whether it is in Iraq and Afghanistan, or homeland security, or how to build a clean energy future, or how to solve the healthcare crisis, or how to create new jobs for America," Clinton told one of the nation's largest Latino civil rights groups in Los Angeles Saturday...

Dueling protests reflect immigration divideBy SUZANNE GAMBOA Associated Press Writer May 12. 2006 10:41PM Reflecting the American divide over immigration, protesters on both sides stood a few feet from each other near the Capitol shouting chants and exchanging accusations of racism. The protesters were kept apart Friday by helmeted police officers who stood inside a ring of yellow police tape. A Minuteman Project rally marked the end of a cross-country caravan by the anti-immigration group, whose members patrol the U.S.-Mexican border in search of illegal border crossers. The caravan began in Los Angeles. Minuteman demonstrators, who numbered less than 100,...

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (Courtesy Haaretz) JERUSALEM – Just five days before national elections here, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima party revealed yesterday it would divide Jerusalem and allow a Palestinian state to be established in parts of Israel's "eternal capital." The revelation follows months of denials by top Kadima officials that the party would advocate withdrawing from Jerusalem. "The Old City, Mount Scopus, the Mount of Olives, the City of David, Sheikh Jarra will remain in our hands, but [regarding] Kafr Akeb, Abu-Ram, Shuafat, Hizma, Abu-Zaim, Abu-Tur, Abu Dis, in the future, when the Palestinian state is...

Some of my leftist friends have one thing in common with the Muslims now sacking foreign embassies: a fundamental lack of understanding as to how democracy works, and how precious it is. The leftists have grown up knowing nothing but freedom and opulence, and take things like the Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, and Constitution for granted (if they have even read these hallowed documents). The Muslim radicals (Islamists) are throwing lit jugs full of gasoline at Danish embassies because they have known nothing except Big Brother (One Newspaper, One Nation, One Religion, One World), and do not even know...

Courage under fire Pat Robertson isn’t playing some pernicious political game By Stan Goodenough January 11th, 2006 “Instructive” is a good word for describing the reaction to Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) President Pat Robertson’s remarks about the stroke that incapacitated Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week. Certainly it took immense courage of conviction for an influential man like the former candidate for the American presidency to say something he knew would enrage many people and put ammunition into the hands of his avowed enemies, and to nonetheless say it because he believes it is true, and because his conscience...

Washington, PLO begin dividing Jerusalem Netanyahu slams capitulation to US pressure on capital By Ryan Jones January 9th, 2006 Israel's firm position regarding Jerusalem notwithstanding, it appears American pressure will win the day and “Palestinian” parliamentary candidates will campaign for votes among the thousands of Arab residents of the Jewish state's capital. For months the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was adamant candidates for the Palestinian Legislative Council would not be permitted to campaign in Jerusalem, and that the Arab residents of the city would have to mail in their ballots on January 25, if they were allowed to...

Amid divide, Bush moves toward 'split-the-baby' immigration plan PHOENIX The immigration issue is creating a quandary for the Bush White House.Bush and his advisers are caught in the middle.On the one side are supporters who believe the economy needs those workers who have come into the country illegally.On the other are conservatives whose priority is to clamp down on illegal immigration.Bush is moving toward allowing illegal immigrants who came to the U-S before February 2004 to qualify for guest-worker visas.People smuggled in after then would be deported.The White House hopes to have a detailed proposal to Congress in late September...

Children studying in their "classroom".. Child Labourers.. A rural Chinese classroom.. More pics at: http://www.india-defence.com/node/310

 Japanese paper tells China not to divide TaiwanCNA , TAIPEI Thursday, Apr 28, 2005,Page 1 The mass-circulation Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun urged China yesterday not to use Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan's visit as a "political tool to divide Taiwan." Instead, Beijing should use the historic meeting between Lien and President Hu Jintao, the general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as a "strategic tool to enter into peaceful dialogue with Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party [DPP]," the daily said in an editorial. If the KMT-CCP summit can develop into cross-strait dialogue -- that is, the resumption of...

U.S. & Europe, Inc. EAST LANSING, Michigan The main purpose behind President George W. Bush's visit to Europe is said to be mending fences with European allies. Beyond the waxing and waning of rhetoric, however, the health of the alliance was never in doubt. Alarmist analyses about the health of the trans-Atlantic alliance, so popular in the wake of the Iraq war, underestimated the ties that bind the affluent, industrialized, and powerful countries of the global North. They failed to recognize - or deliberately ignored - the common grand design that underpins the North Atlantic "Concert," the major industrialized democracies...

Apparently Senator Edwards had a close brush with the truth some months back, though like the proverbial "broken clock" that shows the correct time twice each day, he didn't linger for long on the cusps of reality. According to Edwards, we live in a split society, which he described as the "two Americas." Edwards attempted to portray this nation as being divided between the "haves" and the "have nots," by which he delineated between those who are financially well-off, as opposed to others who struggle to make ends meet. However, another far more insidious divide exists across the nation, as...

He is viewed with some suspicion by Democrats, who promised on Wednesday to question him aggressively about his role in setting administration policy on detaining and questioning people captured in the effort to combat terrorism. And he is seen as unreliable by many conservatives, who said he has not been sufficiently hard line on the issues of most concern to them, including abortion and affirmative action.

The guy flip-flops more than the bass I used to catch as a boy and toss into the floorboard of my rowboat. I, and many here, could list HUNDREDS of times in Kerry's very unglamorous Senate career and life where he has done precisely that. Now he is using the same tired, divisive rhetoric that the left-wing of his party (people like the loser Al Gore) wants -- in order to divide America even further. On top of that, he lies about all his so-called "plans." Everyone knows what he has said so far is mathematically impossible to achieve, yet...

WEIRTON, W.Va. — John Edwards (search) says voters should know that religion is important to him and to presidential candidate John Kerry (search) but the issue shouldn't be used to divide people in the election. "My faith is very important to me, and the same is true of John Kerry," the Democratic vice presidential candidate and son of a deacon said in a brief interview with The Associated Press after a campaign stop in West Virginia. "The two of us talk about our faith — with each other," he said Wednesday. "Our faith is important to us and it's always...

Racial divide returns to US schools By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 19/01/2004) A creeping return to segregation of American schools has left its classrooms as racially divided today as they were in 1969, at the height of the civil rights movement. A Harvard study has found that most white schoolchildren now have "little contact" with ethnic minorities. The study, timed to coincide with Martin Luther King Day today, a federal holiday honouring the assassinated civil rights leader, found that America's schools reached a high point of racial integration in 1988. Since then a string of court rulings and federal...

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA (Talon News) -- North Korea has launched a vigorous war of words against the United States and Japan while seeking to foster closer ties with Russia and China, in an apparent bid to damage unity among the powers in advance of September's talks. In doing so, North Korea once again reserved its harshest words for U.S. Undersecretary of State Bolton, who initially provoked the nation's wrath when he called life in North Korea a "hellish nightmare" and called Kim Jong-il a "tyrannical dictator." The White House has since defended Bolton, voicing its overall agreement with his statements....

Lieberman's attack on anti-war rivals shows deep divide within Democrats By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 29 July 2003 The deep divisions on Iraq among the Democratic presidential contenders burst into the open yesterday when the senator Joseph Lieberman, a strong supporter of the conflict, accused his more critical rivals "of not knowing a just war when they see it". Mr Lieberman said the Bush administration had failed to draw up adequate plans for the aftermath of the war and had not moved quickly enough to secure Saddam Hussein's suspected illegal weapons facilities. But his most significant words were aimed at...

Since its modern establishment, the state of Israel has been a hotbed of controversy. Jews and Palestinians have long battled over who should rightfully inhabit the land of Israel, a land promised to the Jews 4,000 years ago. In the Bible, the book of Genesis details the covenant God made with the descendants of Abraham. "On that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, 'to your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river of Euphrates.'" - Genesis 15:18. For more than a decade, America has led attempts to...

<p>The first thing you notice, talking on the phone with Shannon Larratt, is that he doesn't have a lisp.</p> <p>You thought he would, as his tongue has been split.</p> <p>Intentionally.</p> <p>By choice.</p> <p>Split.</p> <p>But the man who edits BMEzine online - that's BM as in body modification - says he's never known a splitter to develop a lisp. For that to happen, he says, the cut would have to be extreme.</p>