Too many Muslim youths are swayed by radical imams, "so-called scholars" and jihadists to become violent when confronted with supposed blasphemies, writes Harris Zafar at USA Today.
Zafar, who is a national director of a Muslim youth organization, gives a useful account of the unruly behavior of students offended by a talk given at a Swedish university by Lars Vilks, the cartoonist who lampooned Mohammed.
Zafar goes on to argue that certain Muslim regimes use blasphemy laws as a means of controlling political dissent.
Science writer Simon Singh's travails with British libel law are covered by Ruth Norris who notes that the laws are so anti-press that their misuse has been condemned by the UN Human Rights Committee as a violation of UN treaty provisions.
Singh, whose science books are found in many a U.S. library, was able to afford the 200,000 pounds needed to fight a suit brought by a British chiropractic association after he wrote in the Guardian about "bogus" chiropractic procedures.
You may not remember, but the far-off Pacific island of Guam is a U.S. territory. Search-warrant bearing Guam police raided a television studio and seized a leaked document. Police said they were merely retrieving stolen police property.
KUAM News points out that searches of newsrooms are barred by the federal Privacy Protection Act.
The question is, are George Soros, who gained attention as the "man who broke the Bank of England," and John Paulson guilty of rigging markets in order to profit from short-selling, or are they simply very adroit forecasters?
AIM's Cliff Kincaid sees diabolical manipulation and his views are making the airwaves via radio talk show host Michael Savage.
If Kincaid and others are correct, Soros and Paulson would rate the sobriquet financial terrorist. As said repeatedly, I don't know enough to form an opinion here, but I would say that high-volume machine trading would invite near random plunges and spikes. However, so far we haven't seen any seconds-long huge spikes...
Well, at least Savage is "covering" these questions. Yet, wouldn't it make sense for seasoned financial reporters to check around and get various opinions?
Anime is almost an alien form to me (though I once was very interested in comic books).
An interesting discussion of anime censorship is given at Bellaonline.
GITMO or Git less? Three news organizations are appealing the Pentagon's decision to bar reporters from Guantanamo Bay proceedings after they violated a judge's order to censor the name of a witness, onetime Army interrogator Joshua Claus. Claus' identity had been disclosed in connection with the Gitmo case two years ago.
Appealing are the Miami Herald, the Toronto Star and Canwest News, according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Canada's Globe and Mail, whose reporter was also barred from Guantanamo, did not join the appeal.
In another GITMO matter, the Justice Dept. asked a D.C. appellate court to redact a transcript of a hearing that occurred in open court, the committee said, citing the Blog of the Legal Times.
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