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October 2017
‘Daft Twerp’ Trump
by Habib Siddiqui: Thanks to the POTUS the politics in the USA is heating up once again. Twelve days after four Americans were killed on Oct. 4 in an ambush in Niger, Mr. Trump called the widow of Sergeant La David T. Johnson and said that her husband “knew what he signed up for,” referring to the soldier only as “your guy,” according to Sergeant Johnson’s mother and a Democratic congresswoman, who both listened to the call. Read More
Federal judge in Hawaii blocks Trump's 3rd Muslim travel ban
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's third Muslim travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect on Wednesday October 18. Trump issued a proclamation on September 24 restricting travel to the US from nationals of eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, North Korea and Venezuela. Read More
Trump World: What needs to be done
By Arthur Kane Scott: The Trump presidency has been steadily marginalizingthe American Dream of Democracy envisioned by the First Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, in his Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, in which he concluded with the moving words “and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the face of the Earth.” Lincoln had just defeated the rebellious Confederacy on the grounds that a minority did not have the right or power to force its views on the majority. Ironically, this is what is happening today in America.About 35 percent of the country primarily drawn from the rural South, the Southwest, and the Rocky Mountains, who are white, rural, evangelical, traditional, and nationalistic are critical of the new America that is emerging: urban, multi-racial, science-based, global and futuristic. Read More
Civil Advocacy groups disappointed by Supreme Court Order on Muslim Ban 2.0
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Civil advocacy groups are disappointed at the Supreme Court order on Muslim Ban 2.0. The Supreme Court of the United States Tuesday (Oct 10) issued an order in Trump vs. International Refugee Assistance Project dismissing the case from its docket. The case had been before the Court after a lower court blocked the President's second attempt to impose a Muslim ban. The Supreme Court's order Tuesday dismissed the government's appeal as moot, since part of President's Trump's ban expired two weeks ago. Read More
917 Egyptians sentenced to death since 2013 coup
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: An Egyptian Court sentenced eight people to death Tuesday and 50 others to life in prison for their role in a case known as the storming of Helwan Police Station. According to prosecution, on 14 August 2013 protesters stormed Helwan Police Station, which led to the killing of three police officers and two civilians. The police station and 20 police cars were destroyed. Read More
What's Next to Stop Myanmar’s Genocide?
By Habib Siddiqui: According to aid workers inside Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, as of last Friday, more than half a million Rohingyas have poured into the country from Myanmar. More than 60% of these refugees are women and children under the age of twelve. It is feared that young Rohingya men are either butchered by the Myanmar security forces or are being detained and tortured or lynched by security forces and Buddhist neo-fascists, and some may also be hiding in jungles to escape the killing fields. They are victims of a very sinister genocidal campaign inside Myanmar that has become a national project to eliminate Rohingya presence in this Buddhist majority country. Read More
The missing T-word
By Habib Siddiqui: Last week, Stephen Paddock killed 58 people at a country music festival and then shot himself dead in Las Vegas, the gambling-capital in the USA. Since he was a 64-old white American retireewho lived in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada, many Americans are highly perturbed by the mere fact that one of their own –apparently of the Christian faith - could do such a monstrous crime, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. They ask: how could Paddock, a former postal worker and tax auditor who had become rich through wise real estate investments in downtown Los Angeles, and who liked to gamble in casinos could do such an evil, maximizing casualty? Read More
China again urges India to abide by historic border treaty
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali: After a lull of five weeks in the China-India border dispute in Sikkim region, China reiterated Sunday (Oct. 8) that "the Sikkim section of the China- India border has been demarcated by the historical boundary." The Chinese reaction came in to the Saturday's (Oct 7) visit of the Indian Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to the Nathu La post at the Sikkim border. Read More
Rohingya Cultural Anthropology
By Dr. Shwe Lu Maung: Myanmar, with her rich cultural and natural resources, has every potential to be a world leader that everybody will love. However, to my anguish. With hate ideology and violent persecution of the Rohingya people Myanmar has now entered into the darkest era of human civilization in the post WWII. Based on the 1990 Myanmar election data, I calculated in my book The Price of Silence (2005), p 252, that there were 1.87 million Rohingya in a total population of around 4 millions in the Rakhine State, in 1990. Today, based on the latest United Nations and media reports as of September 29, 2017, Rohingya exodus passed half a million mark at 501,000, in addition to earlier mass exoduses since 1978. As such, there is left less than 500,000 Rohingya inside Myanmar. That means more than 73% of Rohingya population has been forced out of Myanmar. Read More
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