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Louis Freeh has been on the forefront of a number of scandals himself.
According to wiki: A 2011 grand jury investigation reported that then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary told Paterno in 2002 that he had seen Sandusky abusing a 10-year-old boy in Penn State football's shower facilities. According to the report, Paterno notified Athletic Director Tim Curley about the incident, and later notified Gary Schultz, Vice President of Finance and Business who also oversaw the University Police.
Did Joe lie as is being said in the media and in the Freeh report? What's going on here? Paterno has been criticized for not notifying the State Police. However, in many large universities, university police have an equivalency with state police. Seems like people are piling on to a dead guy who really doesn't have much to say at this point.
[Al Ahram] Wartime rebel Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril took an early lead in Libya's national assembly election, according to partial tallies released on Monday that pointed to a weaker than expected showing for Islamist parties. If confirmed that trend would set Libya apart from other Arab Spring countries such as Egypt and Tunisia where groups with overtly religious agendas have done well - although Jibril insists his multi-party alliance is neither secular nor liberal and includes sharia Islamic law among its core values.
Saturday's poll was the first free national vote in six decades and drew a line under 42 years of rule under former dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... . International observers said it went well despite violent incidents that killed at least two people.
Jibril's National Forces Alliance (NFA) was heading for landslide victories in the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... suburb of Janzour and the western region towns of Zlitan, Misalata, Tarhouna and Khoms with over three-quarters of votes counted in those areas.
In Misrata, Libya's third city, the Union for the Homeland led by a long-time Qadaffy opponent, was on course to win.
Neither the Justice and Construction party - political wing of the Libyan counterpart of the Moslem Brüderbund that now dominates the Egyptian parliament - nor the Al-Watan Islamist group led by an ex-rebel militia chief did well in the tallies.
A strong showing by US-educated Jibril, a fluent English-speaker already familiar in Western capitals for conducting most of the rebels' diplomacy last year is likely to sit well with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... allies who backed the uprising to oust Qadaffy.
But analysts cautioned that parties only have 80 out of 200 seats in a new assembly which will appoint a caretaker prime minister and cabinet before preparing for parliamentary polls next year, with independent candidates taking the other 120.
"We have no way of knowing yet how they (the independents) will align themselves," said Hanan Salah of campaign group Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... There is speculation that Jibril, who will not sit in the new assembly himself, may seek a greater role for himself - possibly even as president if such a position is created in a new Libyan constitution to be drafted next year.
However on Sunday Jibril brushed aside such speculation and offered talks with all of Libya's 150-plus political parties to create a grand coalition.
"We extend an honest call for a national dialogue to come altogether in one coalition, under one banner ... This is an honest and sincere call for all political parties operating today in Libya," Jibril told a news conference.
"In yesterday's election there was no loser or winner ... Whoever wins, Libya is the real winner," he said.
Observers give vote thumbs up
Nearly 1.8 million of 2.8 million registered voters cast their ballots, a turnout of around 65 percent, authorities said.
Earlier, international observers declared Saturday's election credible, saying violent incidents and anti-vote protests in the restive east failed to stop Libyans turning out.
"It is remarkable that nearly all Libyans cast their ballot free from fear or intimidation," Alexander Graf Lambsdorff of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Assessment Team told a news conference.
"These incidents do not put into question the national integrity of the elections as a whole," he said, referring to the theft and burning of a number of ballot boxes and protests by demonstrators seeking more autonomy for the east of the country.
"Eleven months after the building of a new nation, there are bound to be spoilers," said the mealy-mouthed Carter Center vice-president of peace programmes John Stremlau. "Libyans determined to continue with the voting process is what gives us hope for the future."
Reaction to Jibril's coalition call was cautiously positive.
"The door is open to dialogue now for all Libyans," Ali Rhouma El-Sibai, head of the hardline Islamic Al-Assala Group, told Rooters. "But no agreement is possible until we know what is on the table. We cannot compromise our principles."
The storming of four voting centres by protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday underlined that eastern demands ranging from greater political representation for the region to regional autonomy will not go away.
Gunmen, demonstrating their grip on the eastern oil terminals from which the bulk of Libya's oil exports flow, blocked three main ports a day before the vote.
Many easterners are furious that their region, one of three in Libya, was only allotted 60 seats in the new assembly compared to 102 for the western region that includes Tripoli.
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[Al Ahram] Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb, Egypt's most senior Islamic holy man, has said the principles of Islamic law must remain the primary source of legislation in Egypt's new constitution.
El-Tayeb made the comments at a presser on Tuesday.
Article two of the 1971 constitution, which defines the role of Islamic law in Egypt, must remain unchanged, he said.
Furthermore, the High Constitutional Court (HCC) should overturn any law that conflicts with article two.
It was his responsibility to the nation and God to make this statement, he added.
Article two has stirred controversy among members of Egypt's constitution-drafting assembly.
Conservative Islamists forces within the assembly have called for the removal of the term "principals" to make Islamic law per se the "primary source" of Egyptian law. They threatened to withdraw from the assembly if the article wasn't amended in this way.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... secular and liberal parties have insisted the article remains unchanged to preserve the civil-state nature of Egyptian society.
The first constitution-drafting assembly, chosen by MPs on 17 March 2012, was dissolved in April following criticisms by various non-Islamist about the preponderance of Islamist members (66 out of 100) on the body.
While negotiating the formation of the assembly's second version, a deal was reached between Islamists and non-Islamists over the membership ratio, whereby Islamists would only take 50 per cent of the seats. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... shortly afterwards non-Islamist figures again complained of unequal representation.
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Gee, the high Priest (Imam) says MY RELIGION IE THE ONLY WAY, MINE ALONE, NO OTHER.(What else would he say)
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IS >dammit
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Good luck to those in Egypt who don't believe in Sharia Law.
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there's the turning point for Egypt right there. If they go for it and go to full Sharia law (abandon a secular approach) it's going to have big ramifications across Africa and the Middle East.
[Al Ahram] Egyptian journalist Adel Al-Gogari, 56, died Wednesday night while discussing the crisis in Syria during a live televised broadcast on Iraqi Al-Hadath private channel in Media Production City, Cairo.
Al-Gogari, editor of Egypt's Al-Anwar newspaper and Al-Ghad Al-Arabi magazine, suffered a blot clot following a heated phone debate about Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Despoiler of Deraa... regime with Brigadier-General Hossam, a member of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), who Al-Gogari had called a "runaway soldier."
Al-Gogari, a Nasserist, also accused the FSA of being funded by Israel during the show.
Al-Gogari was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
The late journalist's family announced on Facebook that they will receive condolences on Friday in his birthplace Abu-Suweir city in the canal governorate of Ismailia.
Al-Gogari recently appeared on Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... Arabic's controversial programme "The Opposite Direction", where he vehemently defended the Syrian regime, claiming that what is happening in the war-torn country is "an international conspiracy" against Al-Assad.
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About damn time, The lies and killings have gone on too much and too far.
SMITE
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When will He get to the rest of the journalists? Do Rantburgers count as journalists?
[Al Ahram] Egypt's judges are increasingly divided over President Mohamed Morsi's attempt to reinstate parliament after it had been dissolved by the then-ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
In mid-June, the High Constitutional Court (HCC) had declared a parliamentary elections law -- which governed last year's legislative polls -- to be unconstitutional. The following day, Egypt's then-ruling SCAF ordered the dissolution of parliament's lower house.
Walid Shoraby, front man for the Judges for Egypt movement, made up of reformist judges who launched an initiative to monitor the recent presidential election, has condemned the strong criticisms of Morsi's decision made by Ahmed El-Zend, head of the rival Egyptian Judges' Club.
The Egyptian Judges' Club participated in protests against former-president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... as part of the larger pro-reform movement that reached its peak in 2005. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... after El-Zend became leader of the club in 2009 it turned away from activism and took a more conservative and pro-regime stance, according to many of the club's members.
"I urge El-Zend to realise that judges will not idly stand by and listen to irresponsible and unrepresentative remarks," Shoraby stated at a presser at the Lawyers' Syndicate on Thursday.
Moreover, Judge Hesham El-Labban stated that judges would attempt to force a no-confidence vote in El-Zend regarding his position as a judge.
On Monday night, hours after Morsi's decision to reinstate the People's Assembly, El-Zend lashed out at the president. He warned that the president would have to backtrack from his decision within 36 hours or else more "severe measures" would be taken by the judiciary.
El-Zend went on to imply that Morsi, who is a long time member of the Moslem Brüderbund, had reinstated the People's Assembly because the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) -- the group's political arm -- holds nearly half of the assembly's seats.
"The [presidential] decree goes against the ruling of the High Constitutional Court, which is the highest judicial authority in Egypt," El-Zend said at a presser at the Journalists' Syndicate on Tuesday.
This incident is part of a string of confrontations between judges, President Morsi, and the SCAF.
The restored People's Assembly held its first session on Tuesday. In response, the High Constitutional Court said it was the "sole arbiter" in all disputes regarding the implementation of its own decisions and issued a ruling overturning the president's decree, thus returning the Egyptian political system to a state of chaos.
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[Al Ahram] A sit-in by lawyers outside the Lawyers' Syndicate in downtown Cairo has entered its fourth day. The lawyers are demanding coppers who attacked their colleagues at Nasr City cop shoppe on 29 June be put on trial, the interior ministry be purged of corrupt officials and the interior minister be dismissed.
The sit-in began outside the Nasr City cop shoppe on Friday and moved to its present location at the syndicate building on Monday.
The sit-in will continue until the lawyers receive an official apology from the interior ministry, Magdy Abdel-Halim, of the Lawyers Without Borders movement, said on Monday.
The sit-in continues despite Monday's agreement between Lawyers' Syndicate leader Sameh Ashour and Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim, to end tensions between lawyers and coppers at Nasr City cop shoppe.
Lawyers had been staging a sit-in outside the Nasr City cop shoppe since 6 July after dozens of coppers and lawyers clashed on 29 June. The brawl, which left 16 injured from both sides, was reportedly triggered by an altercation between a lawyer and a policeman inside the cop shoppe.
According to Monday's agreement, sheriffs and coppers will grant lawyers "respectable treatment" in the future.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we has reversed a notice giving foreign-owned schools and nurseries a year to hand over 51 per cent of their shareholding to locals.
The directive issued by Indiginisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere a fortnight ago was also targeted at foreign banks, which are still subject to the compulsory take-overs.
The measures are part of President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... 's controversial economic empowerment programme that has already seen foreign mining companies being forced to give their majority stakes to local blacks.
But Education minister David Coltart said yesterday he had reached an agreement with Mr Kasukuwere to spare non-profit-making mission schools, religious institutions, and community-owned schools from the asset grab.
Mr Coltart of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) that is in an inclusive government formed with President Mugabe's Zanu PF had already declared that the directive was illegal.
"Minister Kasukuwere and I agreed that mission, religious, church and community trust schools run not for profit will not be subject to indeginisation," he said in a statement.
He continued: "I am pleased to report that I had a very constructive discussion with (Mr) Kasukuwere regarding the notice recently issued.
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Mr Coltart of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) that is in an inclusive government formed with President Mugabe's Zanu PF had already declared that the directive was illegal.
Lucky for them our Chief Justice Roberts had no say in the matter.
[Al Ahram] Dozens of people who rushed to scoop up fuel after a Nigerian petrol tanker tipped over on Thursday suffered burns when the vehicle caught fire, and some deaths were reported, officials said.
"People rushed there to scoop for fuel and there was a fire which consumed a lot of people," said police front man Ben Ugwuegbulem, of the southern Rivers state.
A rescue official who requested anonymity said "some were killed in the inferno," but that casualty figures were still being compiled.
The accident happened in an area called Ahoada near the oil hub of Port Harcourt in Nigeria's crude-producing Niger Delta region.
Dozens of people "were caught in the blaze," said Onyema Mwachukwu, front man for the military's Joint Task Force (JTF) in the state.
Major accidents, often involving large-haul trucks, are common in Nigeria, where many of the roads in extremely poor condition.
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Greedy bastards got the fuel, didn't do them much goof, good riddance.
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"Build a man a fire and he's warm for the rest of the night. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life"
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Sad ... but common problem in Afruica any time there is an overturned gasoline tanker, or a ruptured gasoline pipeline. Locals are so poor that they rush to scoop up the gasoline in open containers, hoping to re-sell it. Inevitably, a spark causes the whole spillage to explode into a ball of flames and dozens are annihilated. Has happened several times in Kenya, now Nigeria, and this probably wont be the last time.
[El Universal] While Venezuelan oil exports from state-run holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) to the United States go downhill, a hike in the volume of gasoline bought from the United States has been recorded since December 2011.
Data of the statistical arm of the US Department of Energy show that in December 2011, Venezuela imported one million barrels of finished gasoline from the United States. This accounts for approximately 11.3% of the total demand of the Venezuelan domestic market, nearing 8.79 million monthly barrels ending last year.
December 2011 numbers are tantamount to the imports of gasoline from the United States in February 2003, following the oil strike staged throughout Venezuela. At that time, exactly 1.01 million barrels a month were purchased.
On aggregate, the purchase of crude oil and byproducts from the United States in December 2011 stood for 2.21 million barrels, 152% over the purchases recorded in December 2010, for a total of 875,000 barrels.
As quoted by Efe, the numbers of last April produced by the US Department of Energy point to exports to Venezuela for 1.62 million barrels of refined products, including gasoline, heavy fuel, liquefied gas and additives.
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[Al Ahram] Top oil exporter Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... ramped up output to record rates in June despite a big drop in oil prices as Iranian production sank to its lowest in more than 20 years, OPEC said on Wednesday.
Riyadh said it pumped 10.1 million barrels per day (bpd) last month, up 300,000 bpd on May, according to a monthly report from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Iran's output slumped by almost 190,000 bpd to 2.96 million bpd, according to secondary sources, OPEC said, allowing former rival Iraq to overtake it as the 12-member group's second biggest producer after Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh's high production underlines the kingdom's aim to support the world economy despite a fall in crude prices in June to below $90 (57.81 pounds) a barrel from near $130 in March.
Industry sources expect Saudi flows to drop below the 10 million bpd mark this month due to reduced demand from Asia.
In addition to the 10.1 million bpd pumped from Saudi oilfields, Riyadh also topped up supplies in June with about 200,000 bpd from storage, an industry source told Rooters.
At the same time, Iran's supply dropped sharply as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... embargo that took effect on 1 July further limited its production.
Iran did not submit its own production figures to OPEC for June, the first time it has not done so this year. In May, it reported an output figure of 3.76 million bpd, 600,000 bpd above estimates from secondary sources.
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Two sets??? They keep at least 5 sets for different audiences much like we do. That's how they got into the Euro in the first place. They just found the set that had the "right" numbers and published those.
[Dawn] Four employees of the Pakistain Railways were maimed when land grabbers shot up them during an anti-encroachment operation in Imamia Colony on Wednesday.
The land grabbers had raised a structure on the encroached land bearing 'Shahdara police post' plate.
Led by Sheikhupura Assistant Engineer Khalid Mahmood, a railway police DSP and 25 coppers reached Imamia Colony to carry out an operation aimed at retrieving more than five acres of railway land along the track from illegal occupants.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the squad was intercepted by Sufi Nadeem Asif and his more than a dozen accomplices. After exchange of words, Asif climbed up to the roof of the 'police post' and opened fire along with his accomplices, injuring railways gang men Mushtaq and Anwar besides Muawin Nadeem and Sufian.
Railway police retaliated and overpowered Asif, Shahid Ali, Ittefaq Hussain and Siddiq and seized four Kalashnikovs (444-bore), a repeater gun (12-bore) and a gun (7-MM).
On receipt of information, Railways Lahore Divisional Superintendent Javed Anwar Bubak and SSP Dr Shahzad Aslam rushed to the spot, with the former taking the injured to Mayo Hospital and the latter supervising the anti-encroachment operation.
Railways Jaranwala Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under sections 506 (II), 324, 353, 186 of the PPC, 78 of ATA, 120, 120 (III) and 121 of Railways Act after arresting Sufi Asif, Shahid Ali, Ittefaq Hussain and Siddiq.
More than two acres had been retrieved till sunset and the operation would be resumed on Thursday to retrieve the remaining land, said Bubak.
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Nice 20 Round Thompson in that picture.(Short clip)
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[Bangla Daily Star] Pakistain's Supreme Court yesterday ordered Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... , the latest twist in a long-running confrontation between the judiciary and the government.
In a veiled threat to remove the new prime minister from office, the Supreme Court asked Ashraf, who replaced Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... , to submit a report on compliance with its orders by July 25.
"Failing which, the court may initiate any appropriate action in accordance with the law," Justice Asif Khosa said, reading out the court's order.
Pakistain's previous prime minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, was disqualified from his job by the Supreme Court last month after he was convicted of contempt of court for failing to restart work on the cases against the president, who also heads the ruling Pakistain People's Party (PPP).
Hours before the Supreme Court was due to resume proceedings in the case, Zardari signed into law a controversial bill exempting bigwigs from contempt of court charges, in an apparent attempt to shield Prime Minister Ashraf from the charges faced by his predecessor.
The Senate, or upper house, passed the bill after a debate late Wednesday as the main opposition party Pakistain Moslem League-N headed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... staged a walk out to boycott the proceedings.
The bill was passed by the lower house of parliament on Monday.
It appears the judiciary is unwilling to end a showdown with the coalition government, which could force elections before February 2013 when it would become the first in Pakistain to complete an elected, full five-year mandate.
Judge Asif Saeed Khosa rejected government stalling tactics and said Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf was "bound to implement the relevant directions of this court".
The judiciary has been trying for years to force the administration to reopen multi-million-dollar corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, which its critics have likened to a personal vendetta campaign.
The allegations against Zardari date back to the 1990s, when he and his late wife, former premier Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , are suspected of using Swiss bank accounts to launder $12 million allegedly paid in bribes by companies seeking customs inspection contracts.
Thousands of corruption cases were thrown out in 2007 under an amnesty law passed by former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , paving the way for his return to civilian rule.
Two years later, the Supreme Court ruled that agreement illegal, and ordered the re-opening of money laundering cases against Zardari.
The government has refused to obey that order, arguing that Zardari has immunity as the head of state. Zardari denies any wrongdoing, and says the cases were politically motivated.
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BAGHDAD - An Iraqi draft law that would jail web users for life for a variety of ill-defined crimes has been condemned by rights groups and activists who have slammed its vague language and hefty penalties.
Human Rights Watch has warned the bill would constitute serious curtailments of Iraqis freedoms, while activists have questioned many of the bills provisions. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at HRW, said in a statement: This bill would give Iraqi authorities yet another tool to suppress dissent, especially on the Internet, which Iraqi journalists and activists increasingly turn to for information and open debate.
MPs defend the current draft of the bill by saying it was written at the height of Iraqs bloody war. But while it may look to deter insurgents, its wide-ranging provisions apply to all sectors of society, in a country where Internet penetration was just 1.1 per cent in 2010, according to the International Telecommunication Union.
The draft law stipulates jail terms of up to life imprisonment for undermining the independence, unity, or safety of the country, or its supreme economic, political, military, or security interests, according to an HRW translation.
That does seem a tad broad...
Similar punishments could be handed down if web users were found to be participating, negotiating, promoting, contracting with, or dealing with a hostile entity in any way with the purpose of disrupting security and public order or endangering the country.
Life imprisonment is also a potential penalty for those guilty of inflaming sectarian tensions or strife; disturbing security and the public order; or defaming the country or publishing or broadcasting false or misleading events for the purpose of weakening confidence in the electronic financial system, electronic commercial or financial documents, or similar things, or damaging the national economy and financial confidence in the state.
One article stipulates a one-year jail term for any person who encroaches on any religious, moral, family, or social values or principles or the sanctity of private life using an information network or computer devices in any shape or form. Another calls for a minimum three-year sentence for those who disrupt intentionally the computers and the Internet devoted to the public interest, or damage or hinder their functions, according to a translation compiled by the Belgium-based Institute for International Law and Human Rights.
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free speech is unislamic
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[Al Ahram] An Indonesian court sentenced a Shiite holy man Thursday to two years in prison for blasphemy, saying his teachings deviated from mainstream Islam and had caused "public anxiety".
Tajul Muluk was cooled for a few years Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up! in April by police on the island of Madura off eastern Java amid anti-Shiite attacks that rights groups say were led by Sunni Moslems.
"Based on witness accounts and evidence presented, the defendant has been proven legally and convincingly guilty of blasphemy causing public anxiety," chief judge Purnomo Amin Tjahjo told the Sampang district court.
During his teachings, Muluk said the Koran was not an authentic text, that Moslems should pray only three times a day, and that the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca was not obligatory, witnesses had told the court.
Mainstream Islam teaches that the hajj is one of five pillars of Islam and that Moslems should pray five times a day.
The judge said that Muluk had propagated Shiite teachings in his village of Nangkernang, where a nearby branch of the country's top Islamic holy manal council dubbed the denomination "deviant" from mainstream Islam.
Muluk said that he would file an appeal against the ruling.
"I feel that my dignity has been crushed. They accused me of being an infidel. I will file an appeal for the sake of my pride," he told the court.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... (HRW) criticised the court ruling and urged the Indonesian government to immediately release Muluk and repeal the country's blasphemy laws.
The international rights watchdog said that Sunni faceless myrmidons had attacked Muluk's village, burning houses, including Muluk's home, as well as an Islamic school, and forcing 500 Shiite followers to flee their homes.
Indonesia guarantees freedom of religion through its constitution but has in recent years given light sentences to perpetrators of attacks on Christians and those from the Ahmadi Islamic minority, some of which have been fatal.
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Just like Pakistan: it starts with Christians, Ahmadi, and what have you. Next up are the Shiite. Finally, the Sunni turn on each other.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Al Ahram] Wartime rebel Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril took an early lead in Libya's national assembly election, according to partial tallies released on Monday that pointed to a weaker than expected showing for Islamist parties. If confirmed that trend would set Libya apart from other Arab Spring countries such as Egypt and Tunisia where groups with overtly religious agendas have done well - although Jibril insists his multi-party alliance is neither secular nor liberal and includes sharia Islamic law among its core values.
[Al Ahram] Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb, Egypt's most senior Islamic 
[Al Ahram] Egyptian journalist Adel Al-Gogari, 56, died Wednesday night while discussing the crisis in Syria during a live televised broadcast on Iraqi Al-Hadath private channel in Media Production City, Cairo.
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
Egypt's judges are increasingly divided over President Mohamed Morsi's attempt to reinstate parliament after it had been dissolved by the then-ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
A sit-in by lawyers outside the Lawyers' Syndicate in downtown Cairo has entered its fourth day. The lawyers are demanding 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we has reversed a notice giving foreign-owned schools and nurseries a year to hand over 51 per cent of their shareholding to locals.
[El Universal] While Venezuelan oil exports from state-run holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) to the United States go downhill, a hike in the volume of gasoline bought from the United States has been recorded since December 2011.
Top oil exporter 
[Dawn] Four employees of the Pakistain Railways 
President Asif Ali 
Nawaz Sharif
Pervez 
