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...report, which also documented the widespread belief that women are largely to blame for their harassment woes, set off a debate in the Egyptian and foreign press over who is at fault and what steps - if any - to take. The government decided that one way to tackle the problem was to address it through the teachings of Islam. Sexual Harassment: Causes and Solutions, which was distributed to 50,000 imams nationwide, lists five causes of harassment, including weak religious awareness and mental and cultural emptiness. It also suggests ways to tackle the problem. "When the imams realize that sexual harassment...
...Widespread Uighur alienation has prompted some to resort to violence. Following the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., Beijing convinced Washington to list the little-known East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a terrorist organization. Some Uighurs were captured by coalition forces in Afghanistan and sent to Guantánamo, but many have subsequently been released. The specter of Uighur terrorism loomed over Xinjiang after a series of attacks and bombings hit the province during the build-up to last year's Beijing Olympics. The extent of the ETIM's tactical capabilities and its connections to other more prominent terrorist outfits...
...Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith tried to douse the immediate, widespread suspicion that the Chinese were using mafia-like tactics to make a business point. "I see no basis in any of that speculation," he told reporters in Perth yesterday. He was saying what he had to say publicly, but the truth was exactly the opposite. Barring new information as to why, exactly, Hu and his team were arrested, the only basis for speculation as to the motive behind the detentions necessarily revolved around China's anger at Rio Tinto. And until and unless Beijing can put what the foreign...
...survived a brutal stabbing - was related to the attention that the Russian press was giving Obama's election race. But Kozhevnikova adds that since Obama took office in January, racially motivated crimes against black people in Russia have dipped to pre-election levels. "Racism in Russia has always been widespread and will always be a problem," she says. "But I don't think the fact that he is black is an issue today." (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart of the civil rights movement...
...based on a manga (by So Kitamura), this movie proposes that the country's rulers averted a multicontinental World War II by forging a truce with the U.S. the day after Pearl Harbor - as we say, it's a fantasy - thus allowing the nobility to stay in power amid widespread poverty. Enter K-20, the Fiend (kaijin) with 20 Faces, who can assume almost any identity, and who steals from the rich but also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure out what evil genius is behind...