Washington Post reporter David Brown found ”rage and panic” at a recent meeting of AIDS activists in Vienna, placed on page A-10 of Thursday’s paper: The rage is directed at the Obama administration , which many activists say is reneging on a commitment to continue big annual increases in global AIDS spending. The panic arises from the knowledge that in some African countries, patients who want antiretroviral treatment are being turned away and will soon start dying. Some activists pine for former president George…
He understands (in response to my piece today): Thank you for your article about Bishop Gassis and the situation in Sudan.? I am a Lutheran pastor here in the United States and I had an opportunity to teach in Sudan several years ago.? I was privileged to work with Bishop Andrew Elisa of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan.? He was one of the people who helped broker the peace agreement of 2005.? Unfortunately he died 2 years ago, a big blow to the Lutheran Church, and to Sudan in general. I know of the tenuous nature of the peace agreement between South and North, and I know that it would not have come about …
He understands (in response to my piece today): Thank you for your article about Bishop Gassis and the situation in Sudan.? I am a Lutheran pastor here in the United States and I had an opportunity to teach in Sudan several years ago.? I was privileged to work with Bishop Andrew Elisa of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan.? He was one of the people who helped broker the peace agreement of 2005.? Unfortunately he died 2 years ago, a big blow to the Lutheran Church, and to Sudan in general. I know of the tenuous nature of the …
He understands (in response to my piece today): Thank you for your article about Bishop Gassis and the situation in Sudan.? I am a Lutheran pastor here in the United States and I had an opportunity to teach in Sudan several years ago.? I was privileged to work with Bishop Andrew Elisa of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan.? He was one of the people who helped broker the peace agreement of 2005.? Unfortunately he died 2 years ago, a big …
He understands (in response to my piece today): Thank you for your article about Bishop Gassis and the situation in Sudan.? I am a Lutheran pastor here in the United States and I had an opportunity to teach in Sudan several years ago.? I was privileged to work with Bishop Andrew Elisa of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sudan.? He was one…
From the New York Times : A 20-year-old Virginia man who had made threatening statements about the television show “South Park” was arrested on Wednesday and charged with supporting the Shabab, a Somalia-based terrorist group, after he allegedly tried to board a flight to Africa with his infant son. Somalia – Terrorism – South Park – Virginia – Africa
(Eugene Volokh) The New Zealand Herald reports, Instead of facing Islam’s most holy city, a clerical error of astronomical proportions has seen the faithful [among the 200 million Muslims in Indonesia] directing their prayers towards Kenya and southern Somalia. The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country’s highest Islamic body, has admitted that they made an error in an edict issued in March regarding the direction of the sacred Kaaba site in Mecca. Originally they had said that…
The recent horrific bombings in Uganda, carried out by the Somali jihadist group Al-Shabaab on its own admission, should draw our attention to the regional threat to East Africa emanating from Somalia.
More selections from our recent symposium on beach books, today’s from Hans von Spakovsky: Flashman , by George MacDonald Fraser : This is the first book in the Flashman Papers, an absolutely wonderful ten-book series about Harry Flashman, history’s greatest adventurer, cad, and incorrigible scoundrel. The books follow Harry’s escapades as an English soldier, starting with his first foray to the Indian subcontinent in 1839, where, in Afghanistan, he survives one of the worst defeats of the English army in its history. In the other books, he goes to …
The Obama administration’s official policy of moving away from phrases like “Global War on Terrorism” and “Islamic extremists” does not change the reality of what we face in the world today. The recent terrorist attack in Kampala, Uganda, serves as evidence that a shift in semantics does not change the fact that we are engaged in a struggle against terrorism that is global in scale. The Ugandan attack, which targeted innocent civilians gathered together to watch the World Cup soccer final, should shake us to the core and awaken us to the truth that we cannot neglect a place like Africa. Having had over a hundred country …