Links and news for April 4 2013

1. Check out this video of one of the influential Americans attempting to pass gun limiting legislation. Is there anyone left in government that isn’t Marxist, Muslim or learning disabled?

2. Natural gas could have a major impact on Middle Eastern Geopolitics

3. Diana West reminds us of some of the rather major things Obama appears to have gotten away with.

4. Qantas Airlines bans pork on many flights. Also seems to follow the Arabic, ‘no U after Q’ law as well.

4. A few days ago, we posted a video of some jihadis using top notch high tech sniper rifles in Syria. It turns out that they were possibly Chinese knock offs. But these ones aren’t. (H/T Golem Bar)

5. An interesting graph of Egyptian foreign exchange reserves. (Thank you Red)

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6. Staggering decline in Egypt since the revolution

 

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6 Replies to “Links and news for April 4 2013”

  1. 1 I would call her an idiot but that would be an insult to all of the idiots.

    2 Not just the Middle East, any gas they sell will reduce the hold Russia has on Europe by supplying all of their gas..

    3 She makes the case well

    4 Did that one guy have an orgasm?

    5 Food is expensive, and getting more expensive.

  2. INDONESIA – MUSLIMS kill BUDDHISTS :

    Myanmar Muslims kill 8 Buddhists in Indonesian centre

    MEDAN, Indonesia — A group of Myanmar Muslims beat eight Buddhists to death at an Indonesian detention centre Friday after becoming enraged at news of deadly communal violence in their homeland, officials said.

    The Rohingya Muslims launched the attack at the immigration centre on Sumatra island using weapons fashioned from smashed up beds and broom handles after seeing pictures of recent religious violence in Myanmar that left dozens dead.

    The attack underscores the soaring Muslim-Buddhist tensions that have cast a shadow over political reforms in Myanmar, where the end of decades of authoritarian military rule has laid bare deep sectarian fault lines.

    The recent disorder in Mynmar was the worst since an eruption of violence between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in the western state of Rakhine last year that left scores dead and tens of thousands — mainly Muslims — displaced.

    The Rohingya have been described by the UN as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, and violent episodes have accelerated their flow from Myanmar, with an increasing number arriving on Indonesian shores.

    Immigration centre official Rida Agustian said the entrance to the block where the detainees were being held was sealed off to stop officers from intervening as the deadly attack was launched in the early hours.

    When officers finally got in, they found “blood spattered on the walls and in pools on the floor,” he said.

    “The men had used wood from their beds and broom sticks as weapons to kill.

    “The bodies were covered in blood, it looked like they were beaten and tortured to death.”

    Agustian said 15 people, believed to Rohingya, were injured during the violence at the centre, where 106 of them are being held.

    Kyawkyaw, 25, who gave only one name and was one of 11 Myanmar Buddhist fishermen being held at the centre before the violence erupted, said he heard the attack unfolding and was “very scared”.

    “We ask the Indonesian government to send us straight back home to Myanmar,” he told AFP outside the centre before being taken away for questioning by police.

    The attack happened after the detainees saw images of violence between non-Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in central Myanmar last month that left at least 43 people dead and many Muslim homes and mosques destroyed, said local police chief Endro Kiswanto.

    “They managed to see some photos of the violence in Myanmar, including buildings on fire,” Kiswanto told AFP.

    He said all eight Buddhist men were dead when police arrived at the detention centre in the early hours of Friday morning. Twenty-five detainees and 30 other witnesses were being questioned by police.

    Yusuf Umardani, head of the detention centre, said the photos sparked an argument between the Buddhists and Rohingya, during which a Rohingya cleric was stabbed.

    “The cleric told his followers not to take revenge, but around 1.30 in the morning the Muslims came to the Buddhist cell and locked the block from inside,” he said.

    The United Nations refugee agency said in a statement that it was “saddened by reports of fatalities and injuries” in the disturbance.

    Many Rohingya Muslims arriving on Indonesian shores face long stints in detention awaiting UN assessment for refugee status. Myanmar views its population of roughly 800,000 Rohingya as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and denies them citizenship.

    Last month’s communal violence was apparently triggered by an argument in a gold shop in the central town of Meiktila that turned into a riot, but witnesses say the wave of violence since then appears to have been well organised.

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) this week urged Myanmar to investigate the failure of police to stop the violence.

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCKCYu3UUPphigrF2mBgghS7IcTA?docId=CNG.b53a25d669ab2a1e08a3fa694d5ff8bb.3c1

  3. AUSTRALIA Muslim Sex attacker wins right to appeal over cultural differences

    AN Afghan refugee who argued cultural differences led him to rape a drunken girl has won a bid to appeal against a 14-year jail term.

    Esmatullah Sharifi, 31, was given a total 11-year non-parole term for two rapes committed within days of each other in December 2008.

    He pleaded guilty at separate hearings to raping a teen on December 19 and a woman, 25, on Christmas Eve. He’s been granted leave to appeal against the sentence for raping the teen.

    A date is yet to be set.

    Granting leave to appeal, Court of Appeal Justice Robert Redlich said: “The sentencing judge rejected any suggestion (Sharifi) didn’t have a clear concept of consent in sexual relations. His Honour concluded that the protection of the community was the principal purpose for which the sentence was imposed.”

    But he said the 18-year-old victim had found there were “aspects of his conduct that were strange” because Sharifi treated her like a “willing participant”.

    He noted that Sharifi, who came to Australia on a temporary protection visa in 2001, also drove her home.

    “It proves, in my view, an adequate basis for most grounds of appeal that (Sharifi) wishes to pursue,” the judge said.

    In April last year, a psychologist told the County Court that Sharifi had “an unclear concept of what constitutes consent in sexual relationships” in Australia.

    But in his sentencing remarks, Judge Mark Dean said Sharifi had gone hunting for vulnerable, drunken women to rape. His flight from the Taliban was no excuse for extreme violence.

    “The offence committed by you was an extremely serious act of violence, and in my opinion you well knew the victim was not consenting,” he said.

    “You have no remorse or insight into your offending.”

    Sharifi found the teen near to a Frankston nightclub and offered to drive her to meet friends at a Mornington hotel. But instead he drove her to a dark street and raped her.

    “Your brutal conduct must be denounced by this court,” Judge Dean said.

    Sharifi was jailed in 2009 for 9½ years with a minimum of seven years for the Christmas Eve rape. In April, he was given a total sentence of 14 years.

    http://www.news.com.au/national-news/victoria/sex-attacker-wins-right-to-appeal-over-cultural-differences/story-fndo4cq1-1226610493724

  4. Dozens of protesters attempted to storm the residence of the Iranian chargé d’affaires in Cairo on Friday.

    The protesters, mostly Salafists, threw stones at the building and daubed offensive slogans on the outer wall.

    They chanted against Iran, Shias and the Muslim Brotherhood and in support of the Syrian opposition.

    “Let all the Muslim Brothers hear, we will not accept relations between Egypt and Iran,” the protesters chanted. “Iranian ambassador, Egypt will not be Shia, Egypt is a Sunni country” and “Egypt and Syria are one hand.”

    The protesters carried banners saying “No to Shias in Egypt.”

    A number of journalists and photographers were assaulted during the protest.

    Security forces dispersed the protesters with tear gas after a man tried to hang the Syrian independence flag on the gate of the residence.

    “There were around 40 to 50 protesters in front of the residence. They were mostly Syrians from the opposition and they had the Syrian opposition flag,” Mogabati Amani, Iranian charge d’ affaires in Cairo told Ahram Online.

    “These people are dangerous for Egyptian security because they are serving foreign interests,” he said. “We know very well that the enemies of Egyptian-Iranian relations want to harm Egypt.”

    Amani said talks were underway with the foreign ministry to ensure such “actions will not be repeated again.”

    “Such actions could be harmful to the relations between the two countries, ” stressed Amani.

    Eyewitnesses said most of the protesters were Egyptian Salafists.

    Salafists have been holding lectures across the country in recent weeks to warn against the spread Iranian Shiism to Egypt.

    Tourism between Iran and Egypt has recently resumed for the first time in three decades.

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/68532/Egypt/Politics-/Updated-Salafists-attack-residence-of-Iranian-char.aspx