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We’ve been going about this all wrong. As I perused the paper after reveille last Friday, I couldn’t help but feel a mite more morose than usual, a dose more dolorous. Nine AIDS activists in Dakar, in the supposed shining citadel of West African...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Human Rights 2.0 | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

To start, the main Shi'ite and Sunni political blocs are crumbling. In three weeks of infighting over the resignation of the speaker of parliament and the task of appointing his replacement, the Sunni Tawafiq bloc has shrunk to just over half its original size of 44 MPs. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraqi Politics, the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide Recedes | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

"In the last election, there were alliances. Most of those alliances have fractured, and each one now has its own list," says Iman al-Barazenchi, an Iraqi National Accord candidate for the Baghdad provincial council. Secular candidates say disillusionment with the legacy of those blocs is also creating a shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraqi Politics, the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide Recedes | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

"Religion and politics will never go together," says Emad al-Azzawi, a mobile-phone vendor in Hurriya district who says he too would vote for al-Maliki's Dawa Islamic Party, despite its predominant Shi'ite background. Indeed, al-Maliki has also found friends in a host of new tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraqi Politics, the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide Recedes | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

Others say Iraqis may be less willing now to buy into religion-based politics, but that the possibility of vote rigging by the ruling parties - as well as the manipulation of religious symbols by Dawa and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq to gain votes - are still real threats. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iraqi Politics, the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide Recedes | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

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