For those who recently characterized opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque in Manhattan as an infringement on religious freedom, this week provided some genuine examples of what intolerance is about.
It goes without saying that these types of situations are simply beyond the pale, not just in what we consider to be the Western world, but pretty much every non-Islamic country. Human rights are universal. And we must demand an end to this insanity.More >>
The Propagandist has written before about Abdel Karim Suleiman, the Egyptian blogger who was charged in 2007 for the 'crimes' of insulting Egyptian president Hasni Muberak and "inciting hatred of Islam" in posts that were written on his blog under the pseudonym of 'Kareem Amer'.
Suleiman's sentence expired earlier this month, and he was due to be released from jail on the 5th. However, the Egyptian authorities have continued to hold him in detainment. They have not provided any reason as to why he has not been released so far. Meanwhile, there are reports that Sulieman has faced beatings by a junior officer during the time he has been held past the date of his release.
Oleg Kashin, a reporter on the daily newspaper Kommersant, suffered a fractured skull, shattered jaw, broken leg and smashed fingers after two men attacked him on the doorstep of his Moscow home. He is lucky to be alive.
Come join Tarek Fatah as he speaks about his new book “The Jew is Not My Enemy,” at Temple Shalom, 7190 Oak Street, Vancouver at 7:30 PM. For more information, please call (604) 266-7190More >>
It was to be the war to end war. At 11 'o' clock on November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent over the battlefields of the First World War. Europe was devastated. A charnel house that had seen the death of millions, soldiers and civilians. Now there was time for an accounting of the dead. The sheer horror of the conflict might have been enough to make politicians renounce war forever. As it happened, a mere generation was enough for memories to fade.
The Second World War and all of the smaller wars that occured in the twenty year gap (like the invasion of Manchuria by Japan, the invasion of Ethiopia by Italy, the annexations of European territories by the Nazis, and so on) ought to have put to rest any notion that "war" was history. We are as likely to see the end of war as we are to see the end of crime, or a permanent solution to cockroaches and bedbugs.
But it is critically important to remember not merely who fights the wars, but who...More >>
Via Boing Boing, we learn that Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Sulieman continues to be kept in jail by Egyptian authorities, despite the fact that he was supposed to be released Thursday of last week.
The Hanawon Resettlement Center in Seoul is marking a milestone this year. Since the end of the Korean war, twenty thousand North Korean refugees have escaped from one of the most oppressive regimes in the world and resettled in the peninsula’s liberal, democratic south. The Center receives all North Korean refugees, and places them in special language, culture, and education programs so that they can successfully integrate into society. Although the refugee numbers are impressive, the Hanawon Center also knows the bitter truth: most who manage to escape from ‘worker’s paradise’ end up caught in a Chinese finger trap, and only the lucky few ever make it to South Korea.
With the west and east cut off by coastline and the south heavily guarded along the DMZ, the Russian-Chinese corridor is all that remains as a passage for escape. Although some refugees have made it to the South Korean Consulate in Vladivostok, the small Russian border is often heavily guarded on both sides, leaving only the expansive Chinese border. With maps long ago classified as military secrets by...More >>
Give it a watch. The Propagandist has commented on Iran's descent into barbarism before. It's sad to see that the Iranian regime seems hell-bent on continuing down that path.
Let's face it: the illegitimate 
The Propagandist has written before
It was to be the war to end war. At 11 'o' clock on November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent over the battlefields of the First World War. Europe was devastated. A charnel house that had seen the death of millions, soldiers and civilians. Now there was time for an accounting of the dead. The sheer horror of the conflict might have been enough to make politicians renounce war forever. As it happened, a mere generation was enough for memories to fade.
Via Boing Boing, we learn that 
The Hanawon Resettlement Center in Seoul is marking a milestone this year. Since the end of the Korean war, twenty thousand North Korean refugees have escaped from one of the most oppressive regimes in the world and resettled in the peninsula’s liberal, democratic south. The Center receives all North Korean refugees, and places them in special language, culture, and education programs so that they can successfully integrate into society. Although the refugee numbers are impressive, the Hanawon Center also knows the bitter truth: most who manage to escape from ‘worker’s paradise’ end up caught in a Chinese finger trap, and only the lucky few ever make it to South Korea.
