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Tunisia Also Loves Stepping Back

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that's what will land you in prison in 2012 Tunisia

Here are some news of Tunisia, that country that started what was referred to as the “Arab Spring” and now looks much more like a fundamentalist winter. It is surprising that this article involves a high profile soccer player and his almost par-for-famous girlfriend, because these type of people are usually popular on the streets, however it is a good example to show how radical some countries have become.

So we learn that Real Madrid (soccer team) player Sami Khedira and his girlfriend Lena Gercke had a photo shot on some Tunisian magazine, with her nuked and him covering her private parts with his hands this was too much for some of the religious zealots of the country and they apparently kicked the journalists to prison for this poor little, not really provocative photo.

Now comes the good part, it looks like the people of Tunisia start to realize that the ones to take power are not exactly the liberal democratic front, rather more like the Muslim fundamentalists that took power in other countries across the region, and it does look like many are starting to fear walking into a political trap, they just changed the names of the dictators, but still live in a country in which there are no personal freedoms and that self expression should be avoided at all time for risk of imprisonment (or worst).

Anonymous Ideas Are Not Always Great

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Anonymous Target The Internet Over SOPA

Yesterday news told one story about the hacker group “Anonymous” wanting to shut down internet traffic, or at least make it very slow, on the end of March this year. We have, in the past, covered some of the actions of this group with admiration, because many times they stand up against systems and ideas that are well worth the opposition, however this time it looks like a generally bad idea.

The first thing is that it might not work at all, they want to target the servers who direct traffic across the internet to the domains (sites) visitors are looking for, by damaging those servers they could slow or even stop internet traffic, but these companies have too much on the line here and it is very unlikely that they will fall down without a proper fight.

The reason for all of this? SOPA. Good reason no doubt about it, but killing internet traffic to stop SOPA is almost like killing a patient to protest slow ER procedures. And much more… the US government has already signaled that it does not really need SOPA to act, as it did just a day after SOPA was put on the ice. If there is anything worth flighting about right now it much be ACTA, which is even more scary.

So we will need to wait and see what really goes down on March 31st, and if it does work out for Anonymous we should try and suggest better moves and better targets.

 

How Do You Say “Lynching” in Egypt?

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Not going to write much about it, and add the original text and link to this one. It looks like a mob of 20,000 (yes, twenty thousand) Muslims went out to try and lynch a Christian pastor for what looks like a nightmare religious insane story, one that only we atheists can shake our heads in disbelief to.

A man is born a Christian, somehow he prefers to become a Muslim (because the second is so much different to the first?), his 15 year old daughter joins him in his new faith, now he assimilates pretty fast and wants to get her to get married to someone he likes (but she probably does not), she runs away. The conclusion of this half rumor half fairy tale story is thousands of blood thirsty men trying to set a church on fire and kill any Christian they meet.

And still atheists need to explain why they prefer a world without religion.

Here is the story –

A mob of nearly 20,000 radical Muslims, mainly Salafis, attempted this evening to break into and torch the Church of St. Mary and St. Abram in the village of Meet Bashar,in Zagazig, Sharqia province. They were demanding the death of Reverend Guirgis Gameel, pastor of the church, who has been unable to leave his home since yesterday. Nearly 100 terrorized Copts sought refuge inside the church, while Muslim rioters were pelting the church with stones in an effort to break into the church, assault the Copts and torch the building. A home of a Copt living near the church and the home of the church’s porter were torched, as well as three cars.

The mob demanded the return Rania of Khalil Ibrahim, 15, to her father. She has been held with the Security Directorate since yesterday. Christian-born Rania had converted to Islam three months ago after her father, who had converted to Islam two years ago and took custody of her. She had disappeared from the village on Saturday, after claiming to go shopping. According to Reverend Guirgis Gameel, she had a disagreement with her father, who had arranged a marriage for her with a Muslim man.

Her father, Khalil Ibrahim, went to the police on Saturday and accused the priest of being behind her disappearance, and said she had gone to live with her Coptic mother.

Yesterday a Salafi mob of 2000 went to the priest’s home and destroyed his furniture and his car, surrounded the church and pelted it with stones. They demolished a large section of the church fence. In the evening security forces announced that they had found Rania in Cairo and that she was not abducted by Christians; she was brought to the police station in Meet Bashar.

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