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Our World: Scorched-earth Kulturkampf Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 11, 2005 A district attorney in a Middle Eastern country last week indicted a citizen for writing a letter to a public servant accusing him of being a quisling. The remarkable thing about the episode is that it did not take place in Syria or in Egypt. It took place in the only democracy in the Middle East. Last Thursday, the Jerusalem District Attorney's office indicted Nadia Matar, head of the right-wing, largely religious women's movement Women in Green for the crime of "insulting a public servant." The "insult" came...

80 killed as members of Nigerian Christian tribe attacks Muslim group: police ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Fighters of a predominantly Christian tribe attacked a Nigerian town dominated by a rival Muslim ethnic group, razing homes and mosques and killing at least 80 people, Nigerian police said Tuesday. The ethnic Tarok assailants, armed with machetes, British colonial-era muskets and homemade guns, attacked the predominantly Hausa town of Yelwa, 340 kilometres east of the capital of Abuja, Monday morning, said Raymond Nyama, a police officer who visited the scene. Although the motive was unclear, the attack came a week after Hausas launched...