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HOSPITALIZED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, jailed former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; for a worsening back condition; in Kuala Lumpur. After complaining that he'd lost feeling in his left leg, Anwar was rushed from prison to the hospital, where medical tests diagnosed kidney, nerve and spinal damage. Anwar's family is lobbying the government to let him leave Malaysia for treatment in Munich. Anwar is awaiting the result of his final appeal on a controversial 1998 conviction and nine-year prison term for sodomy...
...have no confidence in all of you ... This is a façade of a fair trial." Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, at a hearing in the final appeal of his 1998 conviction for sodomy
...Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party), which rose to power in the 1990s on a wave of Hindu chauvinism. In January the Hindu Vajpayee met Pakistan's Muslim President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad and agreed on talks to try to end a half-century of war and hostility. Anwar Sadat's 1977 mission to Jerusalem is the only other journey in modern history that bears comparison...
...north of London, the perplexities of finding a terrorist needle in the haystack of a long-settled, law-abiding group of immigrants are manifest. Nearby are four houses the police searched as part of their raids. Muslim elders are disgusted by terror. "Our younger generation is going astray," says Anwar Khan, a retired university lecturer, "getting brainwashed" by the siren song of jihad. The causes are familiar: poor and segregated education, discrimination, youth unemployment (in Luton it stands at 22%, twice the national rate), teens' yearning for belonging and purpose - and a belief shared by many of their parents that...
...emptive policy vis-?-vis "rogue states" should stand as a warning to sycophantic countries. Still, despite Malaysia's success, one has to wonder if it might have been possible for Mahathir to achieve all that he did without resorting to strong-arm tactics, like jailing his political rival Anwar Ibrahim. If development could have been achieved without sacrificing democracy, then Malaysians would be enjoying a free press, and the country would be a better model for democratic but underdeveloped countries in Asia. Mark Andrew Lim Cavite, the Philippines...