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Daily Archives: 12/09/2009
AQIM: “The kidnapped volunteers will be treated according to Islamic Law”
This is an update on this story. ABC.es:
According to AQIM, the “mujahideens” (radical Islamic fighters) who perpetrated “these operations” “are already in their “security bases”, in a non-located region and again, as in yesterday’s message, they say that they terrorist group will publish later the “legitimate demands of the mujahideens”.
The note also sends a message to the “crusaders”, a denomination that Al-Qaeda normally uses for Western countries, and adds that the kidnapped’s security only depends of the “combattants and their Muslim brothers”. The press release finishes with the normal calls for Jihad and in favor of the liberation of their imprisoned comrades.
Meanwhile, two of the March 11th bombings’ victims’ associations have asked the Government to be firm against Al-Qaeda.
Erdogan’s double standards
Last month, Erdogan said: “I know that Bashir is not committing genocide in Darfur, because Bashir is a Muslim and a Muslim can never commit genocide. (
)” What? The International Criminal Court indicted Bashir and has called for his arrest for war crimes in the Darfur conflict, in which 300,000 Sudanese — mostly Muslims — have died.
The AKP’s Sudan policy stands in stark contrast to its Israel policy. At a World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Erdogan chided Israeli President Shimon Peres, Jews and Israelis about the Gaza war, for “knowing well how to kill people.” Erdogan then walked off the panel. Days later, he hosted the Sudanese vice president in Ankara.
Absolutely disgusting. With this leadership, Turkey should never be allowed entry in the EU.
Bolivia- Iran relations: “I fund your hospital, your nurses don the hijab”
Yesterday, Bolivian Evo Morales won the elections (attention to the photo included in the BBC link). Only a few days before he met by videocoference with Iranian counterpart Ahmadinejad to sanction the agreement by which Iran funds an advanced hospital and Bolivian female nurses should don the hijab inside the school:
On Wednesday, November 24, Iranian demands that female nurses don the hijab in response to Iran’s providing $1.2 million for funding of the new El Alto city hospital in Bolivia sparked a national outcry among women’s rights advocates within Bolivia. In an international teleconference in La Paz held between Bolivian President, Evo Morales, and Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to celebrate the hospital’s opening, nurses were shown wearing hijabs as part of their new uniform regulations.
This imposition of political Islamic pseudo-religious attire from another country is causing a rift within Bolivian political ranks. Even though the Morales administration is the profoundly socialist MAS party, the Iranian demand is still seen as an affront on Bolivian cultural integrity especially in a country with a Roman Catholic majority.
Are all self-called “women’s rights defendants”, feminists and so on, going to protest all over the world for this kind of agreement?
Anyway, it’s interesting to see that Morales, who is so concerned about US imperialism, is not when it’s related to Iranian imperialism.
