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...traffic wholesale. As for the case last Friday, if human rights defenders desire liberties and immunities for the AIDS activists they must engage supportive elements of Shar’ia law, making their advocacy culturally palpable, even though most tenets of Shar’ia law concerning homosexual behavior condemn it. But freedom for the AIDS activists will depend more upon the respect for privacy and due process inherent in Islamic legal culture and scripture than the right for men to have sex with other men.Only one passage in the Qu’ran explicitly acknowledge homosexuality...
...double standards that enable Israel supporters to support such a catastrophic response to one death under the pretense of “self-defense,” yet censure Hamas for using violence to call international attention the slow killing of its 1.5 million citizens, is profoundly troubling. To condemn Hamas without acknowledging that they were elected democratically, that they are the only organization offering tangible social services to the suffering citizens of Gaza, and that they are acting out against a sustained, violent occupation, does nothing to advance the peace process. It is worth remembering that Hamas?...
...incisive as his writing is, some Catholics still question the priorities coming from the bully pulpit. Why, for example, does he not use his Christmas address to boldly condemn Robert Mugabe, whose brutal dictatorship has left a largely Christian country crushed and struggling with a cholera outbreak that has already killed more than 1,000 people? Such thoughts naturally recall Benedict's predecessor, whose geopolitical skills were legendary. (See pictures of Robert Mugabe's reign...
...Zimbabwe THE POLITICS OF DISEASE With cholera deaths in Zimbabwe approaching 1,000 and the country's state-run media blaming the outbreak on Western biological warfare, Britain and the U.S. have urged the U.N. Security Council to condemn President Robert Mugabe. South Africa, which has been mediating its neighbor's political stalemate but faces the threat of infection across its border, has resisted U.N. involvement, though it will give up its temporary seat on the council at the start...
...hard blow for Solidarity, and it pushed the country back," he says. "But on the other hand, without Jaruzelski, it all could have ended up in violence." A December 2007 survey showed that 44% of Poles believe the authorities had no choice but to crack down, while 45% condemn the decision...