Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS B.RAMAN President Barack Obama, Gen.David Petraeus, the US Commander in Afghanistan, and other American leaders have rightly condemned the proposed burning of the Holy Koran by Pastor Terry Jones, who leads a congregation of about 50 followers in the city of Gainesville, Florida, on 9/11 coinciding with the [...]
ATTACKS ON SHIAS IN PAKISTAN, A MESSAGE TO IRAN TOO
September 5, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.674 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the anti-Shia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), which is an affiliate of Al Qaeda, have both claimed responsibility for the murderous attacks through suicide bombers on Shia processions during the holy fasting period at Lahore on September 1, 2010, and Quetta on September [...]
BEIJING TIGHTENS UP CONTROL OVER MONASTERIES & MOSQUES
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Acting jointly, China’s Ministry of Public Security and the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China have tightened up their control over the Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan areas of China and over the mosques in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. While the [...]
MALAWI: Vaccination Foiled by Divine Intervention
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Dowa, central Malawi: medical staff struggle to vaccinate frightened children clinging to their parents, as an armed policeman stands guard. Police earlier rounded up the families from Chitanje village and marched them to the Chankhungu clinic a few kilometres [...]
ISRAEL: Women Take On the Orthodox
August 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Aug 2, 2010 (IPS) – Jerusalem is a city blessed but also cursed by its own holiness. No more so than here at ‘Ground Zero’, the religious epicentre within the walled Old City, beneath the most disputed holy site — the [...]
RADICALISATION OF CHINESE MUSLIMS
July 26, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Is the jihadi ideology spreading in the Muslim community of China —- geographically as well as ethnically? Has it started infecting Muslims in provinces other than the Xinjiang Autonomous Region? Has it started affecting the Huis and other non-Uighur segements of the Chinese Muslim community? Is the Uighur separatist [...]
MALAYSIA: Debate on Sex Education Rises with Teen Pregnancies
July 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 21, 2010 (IPS) – The prospect of motherhood filled 17-year-old Fatimah’s heart with dread. This, the Muslim youngster told the magistrate she appeared before in March, is why she left her newborn baby to die in a garbage bag here in the [...]
RIGHTS-THAILAND: Imam’s Widow Takes on Legal System in South
July 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar NARATHIWAT, Thailand, Jul 7, 2010 (IPS) – She is better known for her cooking, her hospitality and her soft-spoken demeanour in this southern region torn apart by an insurgency. But now, 52- year-old Nima Kaseng is heading for a bigger, more public role – as [...]
‘Pressure Israel’ – Church Agencies Tell EU
July 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By IDN Middle East Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – Faith-based development agencies CIDSE and APRODEV are calling on the 27-nation European Union to pressure Israel for an immediate, sustained and unconditional opening of crossings to allow access to humanitarian aid, commercial goods and persons. According to CIDSE and [...]
US: Court Reins in Govt Powers to Shut Down Charities
May 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS William Fisher NEW YORK, May 12 (IPS) – In a major decision overturning a George W. Bush-era policy that has been continued by the administration of President Barack Obama, a federal court ruled that it is unconstitutional for the U.S. Treasury Department to freeze a charity’s assets – [...]
