Here's a bunch of stories for anyone who hasn't been following this: http://www.ds-osac.org/news_results.cfm?ts=7E4654&rpp=7E4655&kw=011F0217010C00&dt=7F474838120B4C4B6F&tt=7A4655
You need to hit back once to get the most recent stories (we are still working on getting it so we can send out the first page of search results.) It's a pretty hairy story. A lot of the counties have declared sharia (islamic law) to be their law, even though it has been declared illegal and unconstitutional there. We are watching the situation there pretty closely. Also you should check out our site: http://www.ds-osac.org We are a group made up of the US Department of State and the US private sector that follows security issues around the world to help industry (and schools and NGOs) with information sharing to keep them abreast of current affairs in counties they do business in. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:13 AM To: CF-Community Subject: miss world I'm still catching up on email so forgive me if this has already been discussed. Anyone else following the Miss World riots? I was reading this URL: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=2&cid=578&u=/nm/2 0021126/ts_nm/religion_nigeria_missworld_dc and got pretty disgusted by this: "The Miss World pageant was hastily relocated to London, but there pageant organizers came up against more opposition with media and lobby groups accusing them of having blood on their hands." Let me see if I get this. A _reporter_ makes a comment about the pageant. This reporter is not associated with the pageant. The local folks get violent, because, as we all know, if someone offends your religion you have every right to go out and kill hundreds of folks. Yet somehow this is the pageant's fault? I'm not a big support of pageants but this seems rather stupid (although you have to wonder what they were thinking going to a country that is obviously full of wackos - and sorry if that offends - but if they are going to _riot_ over a comment like this - they need something better to do). Maybe I'm not a dedicated enough to my religion - but if someone told me God didn't exist, or was stupid, or whatever, I can't see killing him over it. -rc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
