Turkey struts its stuff and the pope kisses it. Links 2 for Nov. 29 – 2014

1. Harper calls on la Francophonie to put an end to forced marriages

DAKAR, Senegal – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has urged countries in la Francophonie to do all they can to put an end to child marriages as well as forced unions.
Harper told the opening ceremony of the summit of French-speaking nations in Senegal on Saturday that 100 million females were forced into marriage between 2004 and 2014 before reaching adulthood.

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2. 10 Worst Countries For Women

3. Taliban attack housing for aid workers; 2 aid workers, 3 insurgents killed

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Violence raged yet again Saturday in Afghanistan, including a battle at a sprawling military base that British troops gave up last month and an attack on a home for aid workers in Kabul.

In the former, Taliban insurgents began an assault Thursday night on Camp Bastion, a facility in Helmand province that Britain handed over to Afghan authorities on October 14. That fighting was still going on Saturday.

4. There appears to have been a large public meeting of Euroskeptics and Islam skeptics I think as well, which RT summarized here. There may be translations of speeches coming up.

5. Pope Francis prays alongside Grand Mufti in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque

(This pope is so anxious to publicly demonstrate his self abasement and multi cult credentials he should be made an honorary Canadian. Now I don’t like to quote the bible much as an authority and especially not twice in one day. But he is the pope so maybe it would help him if he read this part)

6. Theresa May says tens of thousands held as modern slaves in Britain

The shocking number of people held in conditions of slavery in modern Britain has been revealed by the Home Secretary

British Home Secretary Theresa May delivers a speech at the Royal United Services Institute Photo: EPA

9:49AM GMT 29 Nov 2014

As many as 13,000 people in Britain are being held in conditions of slavery, four times the number previously thought, it has been revealed.

In what is said to be the first scientific estimate of the scale of modern slavery in the UK, the Home Office has said the number of victims last year was between 10,000 and 13,000.

They include women forced into prostitution, domestic staff and workers in fields, factories and fishing boats.

Data from the National Crime Agency’s Human Trafficking Centre had previously put the number of slavery victims in 2013 at 2,744.

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said the scale of abuse was “shocking”.

7. A little honesty about recent Turkish history

8. Fifteen dead, 14 hurt in attack in China’s Xinjiang: Xinhua

(Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed when a group threw explosives into a crowded street where vendors were selling food in China’s restive region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Eleven were attackers who were killed by the police, the agency said, and 14 people were injured. The attackers also stabbed people in Friday’s attack in Shache County, state-owned Xinjiang news website Tianshan News said.

It said police found detonation devices, large knives and axes at the scene. […] China has tightened its controls over the region as unrest grows. On Friday, the Xinjiang People’s Congress passed a regulation banning people from wearing or forcing others to wear logos or clothes associated with religious extremism, state-backed newspaper China Daily reported on Saturday.

Thank you Wrath of Khan, M., GoV., Richard, and many more. Its hard to keep track when there is a lot of stuff coupled with life’s normal requirements. But I thank you all. More to come and tonight I have scheduled my last interview to complete a project I have wanted to do for years about rhetorical devices of Islam. I have some great interviews for it. I hope to have it published, if all goes well tonight, within a week.