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...call to Semiti Qalowasa was brief. The anonymous male said: "Stop working with the squatters and exposing corruption, otherwise you are forcing us to come and rape your wife, and kill your kids and you as well...
HERE IS ONE OF PROTHERO'S FAVORITE stories of Bible ignorance. In 1995 a federal appeals court upheld the overturn of a death sentence in a Colorado kidnap-rape-murder case because jurors had inappropriately brought in extraneous material--Bibles--for an unsanctioned discussion of the Exodus verse "an eye for eye, tooth for tooth ... whoever ... kills a man shall be put to death." The Christian group Focus on the Family complained, "It is a sad day when the Bible is banned from the jury room." Who's most at fault here? The jurors, who perhaps hadn't noticed that...
...fear that the Sudan government may betray Janjaweed commanders to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they would face war crimes charges. And the rebels seem remarkably ready to welcome into their ranks the men who have been the frontline troops of a vicious campaign of murder, rape, pillage and ethnic cleansing...
With nearly 1.3 million U.S. abortions per year, no more than 5 percent of which are in extreme cases including rape or the defense of the mother’s life, neither pro-lifers nor pro-choicers should be satisfied with the status quo. We are not effectively educating the public about contraception or instilling sufficient accountability for unplanned pregnancy. We continue to stigmatize young, single mothers. We are failing to make alternative resources readily available for women of every economic status...
...nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens of thousands of rape victims from the Bosnian war, is trying to make ends meet in the eponymous suburb of Sarajevo, with her pre-teen daughter Sara (Luna Mijovic). Zbanic’s clear storytelling makes the film accessible to a global audience; you do not need to know about shaheeds or Bosnian war camps...