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arts of tunisia appear so westernized at least on the surface that visitors might think they re in greece or even in france if they didn t know better egypt is an ancient and crushingly poor nation ruled as it has been more often than not by a military dictatorship most tunisian women in the cities eschew the headscarf and dress like europeans alcohol is widely available and consumed more by locals than tourists the economy is almost as advanced as those of southern europe and large parts of the cities actually look like southern europe the mediterranean is a recognizable place despite the civilizational boundary that separates its northern and southern shores tunis on the coast has more in common with provence than with its own saharan interior and its vineyards produce wine that is almost as fine imperial france left a powerful imprint on tunisia s cultural dna as did rome long ago the explanation for tunisia s success robert kaplan wrote in the atlantic in 2001 begins with the fact that modern tunisia corresponds roughly to the borders of ancient carthage and of the roman province that replaced it in 146 b c after a third and final war between the two powers africa originally a roman term meant tunisia long before it meant anything else this little wedge of a country in central north africa has been at least partially oriented northward for most of its history ever since egypt is in so many ways the anti tunisia almost every woman who goes out in public wears a headscarf i see more men in just one single day with bruised foreheads acquired by hitting their heads on the floor during prayer than i have seen in all other muslim majority countries combined in almost a decade the country is as far as i can tell the most islamicized place in the world after saudi arabia it used to be oriented more toward the mediterranean as tunisia still is but that was more than a half century ago cairo was once a must see city like paris and rome and vienna but today it s a crowded polluted and grinding third world megacity animated by reactionary and authoritarian politics its liberal epoch is over libya and syria in turn have their own peculiarities but what do these four countries have in common in the middle east almost all secular governments have failed spectacularly in the modern era as a result radical islam looks good on paper to millions the full article is worth a read posted by s r piccoli a 2 46 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette world january 26 2012 burning for freedom in tibet no people should be forced to live in such desperate circumstances that they feel they must resort to desperate means like suicide writes the christian science monitor commenting the tragic type of protest that has become popular in two different parts of the world in the past two years the kind of protest in question is setting fire to oneself and the two different parts of the world that the csm is referring to are tibet and some countries of the arab world perhaps the major difference among many others between the two cases is that generally speaking as far as i know what is happening in tibet doesn t seem to deserve being noticed or at least it is not getting the coverage it deserves with very few exceptions like this or this another tibetan in southwest china self immolated saturday in the latest in a series of apparent protests against chinese rule activist groups said the self immolation in the town of aba in sichuan province was followed by clashes between security forces and local tibetans said the london based group free tibet t protests against chinese rule activist groups said at least 16 buddhist monks nuns and other tibetans are now believed to have set themselves on fire in the past year including four in the past week mostly in traditionally tibetan areas of sichuan province most have chanted for tibetan freedom and the return of their spiritual leader the dalai lama who fled to india amid an abortive uprising against chinese rule in 1959 yes we are talking of buddhist monks setting fire to themselves of course in response to beijing s iron fisted grip over tibetan affairs and this notwithstanding the fact that any form of suicide is widely seen as contrary to the teachings of their religion you the chinese leadership will never address the genuine grievances of tibetans and restore stability in tibet through violence and killing the only way to resolve the tibet issue and bring about lasting peace is by respecting the rights of the tibetan people and through dialogue said lobsang sangay the prime minister of tibet s government in exile in dharamsala in india who denounced the shooting by police on hundreds of tibetan protesters in western sichuan this week of course he is right but at the same time it s pretty easy to predict that even though the tibetans struggle for freedom will continue whether the whole world is watching or not as the communist government in beijing struggles with issues of reform and modernization it has retained and even intensified its hard line policies against the tibetan people given china s growing importance as an economic power and a general sense of fatigue in the rest of the word for meaningful action in defense of human rights the people in tibet can expect little concrete support in their quest for political freedom and religious liberty candlelight vigil in dharmsala india after news reports of self immolation by two tibetan monks at the kirti monastery in sichuan province s aba prefectuture monday sept 26 2011 pic ap posted by s r piccoli a 8 02 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette tibet world december 17 2011 r i p christopher hitchens christopher hitchens died thursday night at 62 journalist essayist and one of england s most celebrated yet controversial polemicists he waged countless battles on behalf of causes left and right the following excerpt from the full interview with him by richard dawkins in the new statesman that was trailed a few days ago is perhaps the most effective portrait of him it is not yet online and i m quoting from norman geras blog and yes along with norm and many others i will miss him i have one consistency which is being against the totalitarian on the left and on the right the totalitarian to me is the enemy the one that s absolute the one that wants control over the inside of your head not just your actions and your taxes and the origins of that are theocratic obviously the beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader or infallible pope or a chief rabbi or whatever who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do that has secular forms with gurus and dictators of course but it s essentially the same there have been some thinkers orwell is pre eminent who understood that unfortunately there is innate in humans a strong tendency to worship to become abject so we re not just fighting the dictators we re criticising our fellow humans for trying to short cut to make their lives simpler by surrendering and saying if you offer me bliss of course i m going to give up some of my mental freedom for that we say it s a false bargain you ll get nothing you re a fool posted by s r piccoli a 2 54 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette uk politics us politics world december 1 2011 saudi women no more naked tempting eyes okay let s suppose they pull it off and that the orwellian entitled saudi arabia s committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice succeed in getting their claim approved namely that they have the right to stop women revealing attractive and particularly tempting eyes in public well do you think their problems will magically fade away if you think so you are wrong read this especially the last paragraph to find out why are we to assume that there will be guidelines set on which eyes are deemed the most alluring and will the thousands employed by the committee to ensure islamic laws are upheld get the job of deciding which eyes are sexy and which aren t it could lead to all sorts of trouble this those poor men landed with the job of gazing into all those sexy lash framed pools how will they stop themselves from being overcome with lust and what about the poor women whose eyes aren t deemed sexy they could be well offended can t they see that the only reason eyes become extra seductive is because everything else is covered up if saudi men cannot resist a pretty pair of eyes why don t they get the veils h t il mango posted by s r piccoli a 2 18 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette humor world october 20 2011 game over the first photo france press philippe desmazes captured or killed but the game is over aniway posted by s r piccoli a 2 54 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette world october 15 2011 occupy goes global and violent too see also here here and here however what do protests and riots in rome really mean well here is the answer from fr philip neri powell the best foreign correspondent in italy simply priceless posted by s r piccoli a 11 39 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette europa italy s politics somewhere in italy us politics world the arab spring hasn t yet begun the winner of the peace prize of the german book trade in 2011 boualem sansal is an algerian engineer an internationally acclaimed author and a straightforward man our choice this year said gottfried honnefelder chairman of the german publishers and booksellers association at the start of the 2011 buchtage berlin berlin book days is intended as a signal of encouragement for democracy movements in north africa yet boualem sansal is not as one might first think a supporter of the arab spring and this for the simple reason that in his opinion unfortunately the arab spring hasn t yet begun here is what he told the italian corriere della sera newspaper english translation mine the arab spring hasn t yet begun the big problems are still unsettled it s not only about dictators who of course must disappear no there is also the question of culture and that of islamism in studying the third reich i saw that over there there were the same ingredients that i recognize in my own country and in the other arab regimes and they are single party system militarization of the country brainwashing falsification of history assertion of the existence of a conspiracy the main culprits are israel and america glorification of the martyrs and of the supreme leader of the country omnipresence of the police huge mass meeting pharaonic public works projects when and only when algerians tunisians egyptians libyans will get rid of this castle of lies then the arab spring will can start that s why i stay in algeria the idea that we have to analyze national socialism if we are to keep islamism in check is not new but what is surprising is that this time it comes from the other side of the fence and the frankness with which it is expressed here is how he put it in a may 6 2010 interview there are enormous similarities between nazis and jihadists the concept of conquering of souls but also of territories and there is the idea of extermination of all those who do not submit to the ideology of islamism but then again boualem sansal is first and foremost the author of the first arabic novel about the holocaust a book originally written in french like the author s other works and published in the u s as the german mujahid and in the u k as an unfinished business it tells the story of a german nazi who goes into hiding after the war as a member of the algerian forces fighting for independence from france the german mujahid was honored with multiple international prizes and translations but as was to be expected it was banned in algeria a country which according to sansal himself is becoming a bastion of islamic extremism and where the holocaust is not currently acknowledged it has to be noted that whilst boualem sansal publicly and sternly denounces the worldwide rise of islamic extremism the mood in the u s and other western countries is generally so anti anti islam that politicians run for cover whenever islam is raised as an issue let s hope the once lonely fight of boualem sansal serves as an inspiration and a wake up call the peace prize award ceremony will take place tomorrow october 16 2011 in the church of st paul in frankfurt posted by s r piccoli a 8 18 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette books world october 12 2011 the day the mouse roared and other sories not just the daily grind today s must reads or so yesterday the parliament of slovakia voted against the expansion of the euro bailout fund but eu pins hopes on second slovak vote this week the government of iveta radicova has fallen but will continue in a caretaker role it has pledged to get the measure through parliament in a second vote alas in vain the mouse roared danes firmly against euro the latest statistics denmark euro barometer shows danes firmly opposed to joining the single currency nothing new under the danish sun they didn t want in before the financial crash and a fortiori they don t want in right now there is something right in denmark italy still needs silvio berlusconi over at the national review they think there s still hope for il cavaliere when the night is darkest the dawn is nearest the académie française custodians of the french language the académie française was created in 1635 by cardinal richelieu its aim was to fix the french language giving it rules rendering it pure and comprehensible by all each french ministry has its own commission of terminology and neologisms whose job is to track down english terms and offer french alternatives they send their proposals to the académie which debates the new terms and rubber stamps them once published in the statues book french civil servants are urged to use them its rulings however are only advisory not binding on either the public or the government about 300 such official french terms appear each year however not all catch on the french term prix hypotécaire à risqué is not often heard in place of subprime for example saudi women receive husbands explicit permission to celebrate right to vote in the wake of the watershed decision granting them the right to vote in the 2015 elections saudi women have received their husbands explicit consent to rejoice sources reported wednesday it is with great pride that women all across saudi arabia have been allowed to leave their homes under the guardianship of a male relative and celebrate this cultural landmark father of four khalid al kazaz told reporters it brings us great pleasure to permit them a few 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