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jamescmcguire

The Freedom of the Hijab - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • I realized that working for these causes while wearing the hijab can only contribute to breaking the misconception that Muslim women lack the strength, passion and power to strive for their own rights.
    • jamescmcguire
      jamescmcguire on 15 Sep 14
       
      She is working for rights to get rid of the law requiring hijabs but still supports the ideology that women must wear hijabs
jamescmcguire

Lila Abu-Lughod: Do Muslim Women Need Saving? | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • But we were confusing veiling with a lack of agency. What most of us didn’t know is that 30 years ago the anthropologist Hanna Papanek described the burqa as “portable seclusion” and noted that many women saw it as a liberating invention because it enabled them to move out of segregated living spaces while still observing the requirements of separating and protecting women from unrelated men.
    • rtussey
      rtussey on 10 Sep 14
       
      But isn't the problem that they feel they need protection from "unrelated men"? True they are able to go into public, but their living spaces are still segregated. She goes on to critique Western women for feeling liberated but still being constricted by "tyrannies of fashion." However, I don't see these two issues as comparable. True, American women will face criticism and experience disadvantages if they do not conform to basic social beauty norms, but they will still be allowed to leave their homes and interact with society. 
  • A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctions between conservatives and liberals, sexists and feminists. The crusade has justified all manner of intervention from the legal to the military, the humanitarian to the sartorial. But it has also reduced Muslim women to a stereotyped singularity, plastering a handy cultural icon over much more complicated historical and political dynamics.
  • There is no doubt that Western notions of human rights can be credited for the hope for a better world for all women. But I suspect that the deep moral conviction people feel about the rightness of saving the women of that timeless homogeneous mythical place called Islamland is fed by something else that cannot be separated from our current geopolitical relations. Blinded to the diversity of Muslim women’s lives, we tend to see our own situation too comfortably. Representing Muslim women as
kthomsen2017

Arabs Give Tepid Support to U.S. Fight Against ISIS - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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ISIS

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  • allies like Egypt, Jordan and Turkey all finding ways on Thursday to avoid specific commitments to President Obama’s expanded military campaign against Sunni extremists.
    • kthomsen2017
      kthomsen2017 on 14 Sep 14
       
      Can they still be allies if they go back on their commitment to the U.S.A?
  • first American strikes inside Syria crackled through the region, the mixed reactions underscored the challenges of a new military intervention in the Middle East, where 13 years of chaos, from Sept. 11 through the Arab Spring revolts, have deepened political and sectarian divisions and increased mistrust of the United States on all sides.
  • The tepid support could further complicate the already complex task Mr. Obama has laid out for himself in fighting the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria:
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  • He must try to confront the group without aiding Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, or appearing to side with Mr. Assad’s Shiite allies, Iran and the militant group Hezbollah, against discontented Sunnis across the Arab world.
  • While Arab nations allied with the United States vowed on Thursday to “do their share” to fight ISIS and issued a joint communiqué supporting a broad strategy, the underlying tone was one of reluctance.
  • Syria and the United States were “fighting the same enemy,” terrorism, and that his government had “no reservations” about airstrikes as long as the United States coordinated with it
  • Egypt’s hands were full with its own fight against “terrorism,” referring to the Islamist opposition.
  • Turkey, which Mr. Kerry will visit on Friday, is concerned about attacks across its long border with ISIS-controlled Syria, and also about 49 Turkish government employees captured by the group in Iraq
  • an official advised not to expect public support for the American effort.
  • at least 10 Arab states signed a communiqué pledging to join “in the many aspects of a coordinated military campaign,” but with the qualification “as appropriate” and without any specifics.
  • Turkey attended the meeting but declined to sign.
  • in Baghdad and across Syria, where the threat from ISIS is immediate, reactions were mixed
  • But many Sunni Muslims were cynical about battling an organization that evolved from jihadist groups fighting American occupation.
  • Members of Iraq’s Shiite majority cheered the prospect of American help.
  • ISIS has avowed enemies on both sides of the region’s Sunni-Shiite divide.
  • For Shiites, whom ISIS views as apostates deserving death, the group poses an existential threat, yet Shiite-led Iran, a longtime foe of the United States, is excluded from the coalition.
  • Egypt and Syria, revolts that Sunni Islamists saw as their chance at power have been rolled back or brutally thwarted.
  • “The Sunnis need to feel that they have a voice in their capitals,” said Ibrahim Hamidi,
  • “Otherwise, you push more Sunnis toward ISIS.”
  • But that, he said, would require fancy footwork from Mr. Obama to “make it clear this is about American security, not about favoring any side in the Syrian civil conflict.”
  • Mr. Crocker said American attacks would “get people’s attention in Raqqa and elsewhere,”
  • Members of a range of Syrian insurgent groups that consider ISIS an enemy said they, too, opposed American strikes unless they also targeted the government.
  • And even those most supportive of the strikes — members of the American-vetted groups that stand to gain new aid to fight ISIS — complained that the United States had abetted the extremists’ rise by failing to help other insurgents earlier. They said the United States was attacking ISIS now only because the group threatened it as well as the broader world.
rkosmos2017

Arab Nations Offer to Fight ISIS From Air - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Middle East ISIS

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  • The Obama administration said Sunday that “several” Arab nations had offered to join in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
  • American officials have made it clear they do not want the airstrikes to get ahead of the ground action against ISIS, which they said would take time to mass.
  • “We don’t want this to look like an American war.”
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  • Specifically, senior Iraqi and Kurdish officials asked the United States as recently as this weekend to take action along the Iraqi-Syrian border to deprive ISIS of the safe havens it enjoys in that area.
  • “success looks like an ISIL that no longer threatens our friends in the region, no longer threatens the United States, an ISIL that can’t accumulate followers or threaten Muslims in Syria, Iraq or otherwise.”
  • declined to say which states had offered to contribute air power
  • The United States has identified ISIS targets in Iraq over the past several weeks. But officials said they were waiting, in part, to match the allied commitments with actual contributions: warplanes, support aircraft that can refuel or provide intelligence, more basing agreements to carry out strikes, and the insertion of trainers from other Western countries.
  • Arab nations could participate in an air campaign against ISIS in other ways without dropping bombs, such as by flying arms to Iraqi or Kurdish forces, conducting reconnaissance flights or providing logistical support and refueling.
  • Mr. Kerry characterized the strategy in an effort to make it easier for Sunni states to explain to their own populations why they would be contributing forces against Sunni extremists.
ianscox

White House seeks to win over skeptics on Islamic State fight | Reuters - 0 views

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Middle East Political Cultural The Americas

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  • White House seeks to win over skeptics on Islamic State fight
  • U.S. lawmakers have generally been supportive of the effort but Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, have accused Obama of not doing enough to deal with the problem sooner and have questioned whether the strategy goes far enough.
    • ianscox
      ianscox on 15 Sep 14
       
      Ugh, I doubt we will get anything done if we stay divided like this. 
ajwhitney

Arab Nations Offer to Fight ISIS From Air - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Middle East Racial and Ethnic Constructions Revolts and revolutions Belief Systems philosophies and ideologies Trade and Commerce

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  • Several Arab countries have offered to carry out airstrikes against militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, senior State Department officials said Sunday.
  • Secretary of State John Kerry
  • Mr. Kerry, who is in Paris to attend an international conference the French are hosting on Monday on providing aid to the new Iraqi government, has already visited Baghdad; Amman, Jordan; Jidda, Saudi Arabia; Ankara, Turkey; and Cairo.
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  • 10 Arab countries joined the United States in issuing a communiqué that endorsed efforts to confront and ultimately “destroy” ISIS, including military action to which nations would contribute “as appropriate.”
  • The United States has a broad definition of what it would mean to contribute to the military campaign.
  • “Providing arms could be contributing to the military campaign,” said a second State Department official. “Any sort of training activity would be contributing to the military campaign.”
  • President François Hollande of France told Iraqi officials that his country would be willing to carry out airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq,
  • Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia has also said that his country will join the air campaign and is sending as many as eight FA-18 attack planes, as well as an early warning aircraft and a refueling plane.
  • such as flying arms to Erbil in the Kurdistan region or Baghdad, conducting reconnaissance flights or providing logistical support and refueling. The officials said the Arab offers were under discussion.
  • its airstrikes on the defense of Erbil, securing the Mosul Dam and protecting the Haditha Dam.
  • “The Iraqis have asked for assistance in the border regions, and that’s something we’re looking at,” the first State Department official said.
  • “They have a very new air force,” a third State Department official said, referring to the Iraqi military. “Their targeting is not nearly as precise as ours and they have made some real mistakes.”
  • Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide bases for training moderate Syrian rebels
  • “I disagree completely with ISIS in thought and means, but I do not accept that America fights them,” said the scholar, Sheikh Yusef Qaradawi, leader of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, in a Twitter message reported around the region. The United States, he said, “is not moved by Islamic values but by its own interests, even if it spills blood.”
  • his scholars’ union declared ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate “null and void,” arguing that its extremism stigmatized more mainstream Islamists and undermined broader Sunni opposition movements in Syria and Iraq.
  • Now his criticism of the American role may increase the fears of a backlash against Arab governments that publicly join the campaign.
  • groups of Iraqi forces, Kurds and Syrian rebels stepped up to provide the fighting forces on the ground.
    • ajwhitney
      ajwhitney on 15 Sep 14
       
      Why would we not help them in forces as well as training an information to settle things faster?
  • Qatar hosting an American military headquarters.
  • choke off ISIS’s ability to reap $1 million or more a day from oil sales,
    • ajwhitney
      ajwhitney on 15 Sep 14
       
      I did not realize they made THAT much money off of their oil!
  • trainers from other Western countries.
    • ajwhitney
      ajwhitney on 15 Sep 14
       
      Which countries besides the US?
danw55

BBC News - North Korea jails US man Matthew Miller for six years - 0 views

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    "North Korea jails US man Matthew Miller for six years"
danw55

White House presses Congress to vote now on arming Syrian rebels | Fox News - 0 views

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    "White House presses Congress to vote now on arming Syrian rebels"
gcolley2017

ISIS Video Shows Execution of David Cawthorne Haines, British Aid Worker - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • a vital ally of the United States
    • gcolley2017
      gcolley2017 on 15 Sep 14
       
      ISIS is trying to not only directly attack us with the execution of Americans, but also attack the country we are close to. Will Britain want to stop being our ally since ISIS is now attacking their people as well?
  • the British public that in the end will pay the price for our Parliament’s selfish decisions.
  • Alan Henning, another British citizen
    • gcolley2017
      gcolley2017 on 15 Sep 14
       
      How many people do they have captured to victimize next?
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  • We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murderers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes.
    • gcolley2017
      gcolley2017 on 15 Sep 14
       
      Similar reaction to Obama. 
  • the start of a campaign of airstrikes against ISIS positions in Iraq.
  • The group is currently holding Mr. Henning and another British citizen, as well as two other American aid workers.
    • gcolley2017
      gcolley2017 on 15 Sep 14
       
      This answers my prior question somewhat, but how does NYT know these people have been kidnapped by ISIS. Is there any preventative measures we can take to keep ISIS from executing them too?
  • ISIS warned that the hostages would die if relatives made their identities public.
    • gcolley2017
      gcolley2017 on 15 Sep 14
       
      Is ISIS using social media to connect with these families? Doesn't that go against their Jihadist lifestyle?
  • “We don’t pay ransoms to terrorists when they kidnap our citizens.”
    • gcolley2017
      gcolley2017 on 15 Sep 14
       
      Desperate times may call for desperate measures, ISIS may make Cameron regret saying this. 
  • two dozen foreigner
  • Nonviolent Peaceforce,
  • tortured
    • gcolley2017
      gcolley2017 on 15 Sep 14
       
      PINK: this poor man seems like such a good guy and all of this happened to him. ISIS is definitely picking the right people, because this man sure does make an effect! 
  • Handicap International, a disability charity,
  • David was most alive and enthusiastic in his humanitarian roles,
  • The BBC reported that imams across Scotland, where Mr. Haines’s parents live, called for the release of Mr. Haines and other hostages during Friday Prayer last week.
asmith2017

Obama, in Speech on ISIS, Promises Sustained Effort to Rout Militants - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Middle East ISIS

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  • Mr. Obama
    • asmith2017
      asmith2017 on 13 Sep 14
       
      Mr. Obama or president Obama?
  • Obama, in Speech on ISIS, Promises Sustained Effort to Rout Militants
  • using an alternative name for ISIS.
    • asmith2017
      asmith2017 on 13 Sep 14
       
      Why? Why not just call them ISIS?
asmith2017

Nations Trying to Stop Their Citizens From Going to Middle East to Fight for ISIS - NYT... - 1 views

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  • Nations Trying to Stop Their Citizens From Going to Middle East to Fight for ISIS
  • American intelligence officials disclosed this week that there were 15,000 foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria from 80 countries, mostly with ISIS.
mwhitney2017

The Push to Keep Scotland in the Fold - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • nine days
  • recent polls suggesting that the outcome is very much in doubt
  • fly north to campaign
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  • more say over its own affairs if it votes to stay in the union
  • warned Scots against thinking that they could count on retaining the pound sterling as their currency should they secede.
  • Jane McGeachy
  • wants change
  • Gordon Brown
  • former prime minister and a Scot
  • new political powers for Scotland if voters rejected
  • greed Tuesday to put the legislation on a fast track
  • unimpressed
  • women, who were more cautious earlier in the campaign, are turning toward the “yes” camp, as are working-class voters, even though the Labour Party opposes independence.
  • more socially inclusive country that it says can be built only with the powers that independence would bring
  • British Parliament in Westminster is seen by many voters as remote and out of touch
  • The Conservative Party
  • 59 seats in Parliament
  • a society for the greedy people
  • have been torn down and a big new shopping complex opened.
  • attracting many disillusioned people who normally do not vote at all.
  • supported independence partly out of despair with his current situation.
  • £100 (about $160) a week
  • had depression
  • economy would be hurt by independence
  • Alex Salmond
  • cotland’s oil wealth
  • keep the pound
  • maintaining a common currency after independence was “incompatible with sovereignty.”
  • they are bluffing and that if London refused to negotiate a currency union, Scotland would walk away from its share of the national debt.
  • I’m sick of the English telling us what to do,
  • I think someone would strangle him.
  • emphasizing freedom and opportunity and a once-in-a-lifetime chance for self-determination,
  • is attractive to many who are still undecided.
  • struggled to shake off a reputation for negativity
  • she had not yet made up her mind
  • emschaeffer on 11 Sep 14
     
    GLASGOW - With nine days left before Scotland votes on whether to become independent, Britain's leaders went into overdrive on Tuesday with efforts to keep the country intact.
gracegriffin

U.N.'s Ban urges Assad to seek political solution to Syria crisis | Reuters - 0 views

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politics syria crisis solution

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  • U.N.'s Ban urges Assad to seek political solution to Syria crisis
  • U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged President Bashar al-Assad to seek a political solution to Syria's war, saying this would help international efforts against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, al-Hayat newspaper reported on Wednesday.
  • In an interview with the pan-Arab daily, Ban said years of war between Assad's forces and armed rebel groups had allowed militants such as Islamic State to take root in the region.
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  • Asked whether Assad would have any role to play in an international coalition being assembled to fight Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the U.N. chief said Assad could contribute by working politically towards an end to the war in his country.
  • slamic State, a militarily-powerful al Qaeda offshoot that wants to create a jihadist hub in the heart of the Arab world, has made rapid territorial gains in both Iraq and Syria in recent months that have alarmed regional and Western powers.
  • when Assad was sworn in for a new term as president, he vowed to recover all Syria from Islamist insurgents and dismissed the Syrian opposition abroad as traitors. But he also said he would be willing to work with the country's internal opposition, without giving details.
  • The United States has carried out weeks of air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, but the outlook for U.S. air raids in Syria is much less clear.
  • While Iraq's government welcomed the role of U.S. warplanes to attack the militants, Assad has warned that any strikes conducted without his country's permission would be considered an act of aggression, potentially plunging any U.S.-led coalition into a broader conflict with Syria.
  • OPPOSING SIDES
  • "But it is important that the international community is united and shows strong support for any action that has to be taken to root out this terrorism."
  • Assad's military has stepped up air strikes
  • which controls about a third of Syria's territory
  • International and regional powers have backed opposing sides in the civil war, with Russia and Iran supporting Assad and Western powers and Gulf Arab states largely backing the rebels.
  • Ban also said a U.N. Security Council decision to support military action against Islamic State would be "an excellent and an appropriate way" to deal with the group but that its brutal killings were why, "some countries took some military action," in a reference to U.S. air strikes in Iraq.
  • U.S. President Barack Obama is expected on Wednesday to outline a plan to deal with Islamic State. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad as he began a tour of the Middle East to build military, political and financial support to defeat the militants.
rtussey

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emschaeffer

Why Does Scotland Want Independence? It's Culture vs. Economics - 0 views

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Europe Social Political Economic

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  • emschaeffer on 11 Sep 14
     
    If you had told someone in 2012 that in just two years the eurozone would remain bonded together but the United Kingdom might not, they would have thought you insane. But here we are. It's been a good three centuries, but now Scotland may want out of the United Kingdom.
csmith2017

BBC News - Arab states back US push against Islamic state - 0 views

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  • csmith2017 on 11 Sep 14
     
    Secretary of State John Kerry convinced 10 Arab countries to help in the fight against ISIS. They have promised to stop sending troops and supplies to ISIS and to contribute soldiers, weapons, and intel.
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