Stuff that Happens
Here are a few news stories that you ought to know about.
Abdul Rahman, the Afghan Christian who faced the death penalty, has left Afghanistan, apparently prior to a demand from the Afghan parliament to the Afghan Foreign Ministry that he, being a former death penalty defendant, not be allowed to leave the country. It appears that he's been offered asylum in Italy. In another, unrelated example of an asinine interpretation of Sharia, an Indian man is fighting local Islamist leaders, who say that he must divorce his wife. Why? Because he apparently said the name "divorce" three times... In his sleep. The Islamist tribal leaders say that he must divorce his wife for a period of time, and she must spend a night with another man, who must then divorce her, if the two are to reconcile. Husband and wife are defying the order, and rightly so if you ask me.
I didn't post it yesterday, since it was the only news story worth posting, but the Nigerians apparently lost Charles Taylor for a few hours, then found him, and he's now en route to Liberia to face a U.N. war crimes tribunal. We'll see if they get around to a verdict quicker than they were able to do with Slobodan Milosevic.
Apparently Greenpeace has sent one of their ships to the Gulf of Guinea to patrol for pirate fishing boats, and they helped to catch one. And the jokes write themselves.
The Israeli parliamentary elections have resulted in victory for the Kadima party, the first time that neither the Likud or Labor parties have won. However, it wasn't a majority victory, which means that they must form a coalition government under the rules of parliamentary politics. Re-elected Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, successor to Ariel Sharon, is governing on a platform of withdrawal from the West Bank, setting Israel's final borders by the end of 2010.
Oh, and one more thing: Tom Jones has been knighted. Images would seem to suggest that he did not, in fact, leave his hat on.
Abdul Rahman, the Afghan Christian who faced the death penalty, has left Afghanistan, apparently prior to a demand from the Afghan parliament to the Afghan Foreign Ministry that he, being a former death penalty defendant, not be allowed to leave the country. It appears that he's been offered asylum in Italy. In another, unrelated example of an asinine interpretation of Sharia, an Indian man is fighting local Islamist leaders, who say that he must divorce his wife. Why? Because he apparently said the name "divorce" three times... In his sleep. The Islamist tribal leaders say that he must divorce his wife for a period of time, and she must spend a night with another man, who must then divorce her, if the two are to reconcile. Husband and wife are defying the order, and rightly so if you ask me.
I didn't post it yesterday, since it was the only news story worth posting, but the Nigerians apparently lost Charles Taylor for a few hours, then found him, and he's now en route to Liberia to face a U.N. war crimes tribunal. We'll see if they get around to a verdict quicker than they were able to do with Slobodan Milosevic.
Apparently Greenpeace has sent one of their ships to the Gulf of Guinea to patrol for pirate fishing boats, and they helped to catch one. And the jokes write themselves.
The Israeli parliamentary elections have resulted in victory for the Kadima party, the first time that neither the Likud or Labor parties have won. However, it wasn't a majority victory, which means that they must form a coalition government under the rules of parliamentary politics. Re-elected Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, successor to Ariel Sharon, is governing on a platform of withdrawal from the West Bank, setting Israel's final borders by the end of 2010.
Oh, and one more thing: Tom Jones has been knighted. Images would seem to suggest that he did not, in fact, leave his hat on.
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