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Quebec Burqa Ban? Province Moves to Prohibit the 'Total Veil'
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyEarly last month, an Egyptian immigrant was banned from her French classes in Quebec. At issue was neither grades nor bad behavior but dress. Naema Ahmed, 29, refused to remove her niqab, the full veil that covers all but the eyes. The school, which helps integrate immigrants into French-speaking Quebec through language immersion, said that having Ahmed's mouth covered impeded her teacher's ability to correct pronunciation. Further, they couldn't guarantee that Ahmed's teacher would be a woman, which she requested. Ahmed was asked to either remove her veil or not return to class. She opted for ...
Nicaragua's Abortion Ban Is Inhumane and Backward
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIn a move that ought to raise eyebrows even among pro-life groups, the Nicaraguan government is denying cancer treatment to a woman because she is pregnant. This is only the latest outrage in a country that has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. ...
Opinion: Internet Alone Won't Make Them Free
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 22) – It's ironic that an Internet company is getting kudos for its announcement that it may leave China. After all, for many years, the presumption has been that the Internet would be an unstoppable force for good in China and American companies would be on the cutting edge of this transformation. No one did more to apply this principle to U.S.-China policy than President Bill Clinton. Thursday, a more sober expression of the Internet's possibilities and support for a U.S. government role in the use of the Internet to advance freedom came from his wife, Secretary of State ...
China Jails Activist Who Challenged Government on Earthquake Deaths
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA veteran Chinese human rights activist who challenged the government over the faulty construction of schools that led to thousands of deaths in a 2008 earthquake has been sentenced the three years in prison, the Washington Post reports. Huang Qi was convicted of possessing secret state documents, and received the maximum penalty allowable under Chinese law. The sentence comes in the wake of President Obama's much-scrutinized trip to China, where he pressed the communist regime on human rights. Rights activists -- including Huang's wife -- believe the harsh punishment was a carefully timed ...
Obama Has Little to Show From His Trip to Asia
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- President Obama returns from his four-nation tour of Asia with few concrete accomplishments in hand. Even so, the White House defended the trip as an important step toward changing America's image overseas. The president got more attention back home for his deep bow to Japan's emperor than for anything else he did during the eight-day journey. His critics blasted the gesture as a sign of weakness. But Obama believes taking a more deferential approach than his predecessor puts the U.S. in a stronger position internationally. "This strategy is a conscious rejection of the Bush ...
Republicans Chide Obama for Snubbing Dalai Lama
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRepublicans are criticizing President Obama for refusing to meet with the Dalai Lama this week during the Tibetan spiritual leader's visit to Washington, The Hill reported late Monday. GOP lawmakers said the snub sent the wrong message to China and the world about human rights. The Dalai Lama has been to Washington 10 times since 1991, and has visited the White House on each occasion. "The U.S. is kowtowing to Beijing again by refusing to meet with His Holiness," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "This is a policy turned upside ...
The Gulag for Two American Journalists
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyWhen I heard that two Current TV journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea, the first thing that came to mind was the testimony of former prisoner Ms. Soon Ok Lee. ...
Chimps and Chumps
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailySpain's socialist government - which has in recent years abandoned the Catholic Church, imposed gay marriage and cowered before world terrorism - has now charged ahead as the flag-bearer of a novel monstrosity of confused and distorted liberal philosophy. Though it bristles with outrage that Spaniards still cling to the Catho-superstitious notions that a 9 month child-in-the-womb might dare apply for the human right of life, the Spanish government has gleeful proclaimed the inalienable "human rights" to life and liberty ... of apes. Legislation expected to pass in the near future would ban the ...
Admin. Asserts Limits on Geneva Protections
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySix and a half years after the September 11th attacks, the debate over the treatment of terrorist detainees continues In Washington, D.C. The latest development features the release of letters to Congress written by the Justice Department outlining the Bush Administration's belief that terrorists captured in the war on terror are not deserving of the protections of the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of prisoners of war. That is a position taken by the Administration consistently since at least early 2002 that all of the debates in the media and all of the hearings in Congress have ...
Clinton Calls on Bush to Skip Olympics
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe growing controversy over whether President Bush should attend the Beijing Olympic Games as planned later this summer rose to the level of presidential politics today, as Sen. Hillary Clinton said that the president should skip the opening ceremony. Clinton's comments came as the Olympic torch, on a round-the-world journey, was chased out of London and Paris by protesters angered by China's recent crackdown in Tibet. The torch is scheduled to make its only U.S. stop in San Francisco later this week. Today, protesters scaled suspension cables on the Golden Gate Bridge and unfurled banners ...
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