A World In Flames?

Has the world gone gone to hell?

The World In Flames?

That question has to be asked if you just look around at the state it's in.

The Strange Cases Of The Self Proclaimed Prophets

Religious leaders and self proclaimed (or those proclaimed by their followers) 'chosen ones' are always interesting ...

Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah - One In A Line Of Proclaimed Mahdi's

.... even if they usually are one shot wonders, and soon forgotten by history.

Trumps Travel Ban Travails

President Trump has reissued his travel ban list (minus Iraq), which of course is still essentially the same list of countries who were under extra scrutiny under President Obama (now minus one). Although you would never know this from the pro-refugee, pro-immigration liberals, who weep every time a refugee is refused entry.

Many Americans Remember Iranians Treatment
Of Hostages - Even Though Liberals Don't.

Now I am happy to admit that President Trump is possibly a tower short of a shopping mall, but in this area I actually think he's being rather restrained, as there are many more Islamic paradises he could have included in the list. So with his minimalist list of Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen (six of the seven countries on the original 27 January order), the US have subjected the citizens of those countries to a 90-day travel ban and extra background checks.

A Lesson In Democracy?

Today the Sudanese Christians of Southern Sudan have started the process of getting away from their Muslim overlords .....

..... it remains to be seen if it passes off peacefully, or even at all, as the South has all the oil. Of course the South is cripplingly poor, after decades of attacks by Muslim 'government' troops, followed by internal conflict and being starved of oil revenues, so the chances of the fledgling state ever developing into anything more than another desperate Black African failed state are slim, but at least they are trying.

In theory, there should be no trouble, as Pres. Bashir (yes the one from the Mohammed Teddy bear row, and wanted by Interpol for genocide crimes) has promised rather like a latter day Pharaoh to let them go.

However, should they succeed  then the message is out that those states tied in a loveless partnership with others they despise, can escape this bond by peaceful means. Nigeria springs to mind but parts of Indonesia (where the Christians of  East Timor seceded in 1999 but other Christians are still being attacked), and some African states such as Buruni and Rwanda also have issues that might be resolved peacefully by referendum, we can only hope .....

Update 2017:

Sadly these hopes were dashed by the usual African taste for violence and guns and South Sudan has descended into violent chaos.

Nobel Prize, Ignoble Politics

China's behaviour over the award of the Noble Peace prize to Liu Xiaobo one of their own citizens, but one who is in prison for protesting for human rights, has been nothing less than shameful

..... but the behaviour of some of their 'friends' around the world has been equally disgraceful.

 

Free Bird

Having an International arrest warrant out against him, need not cramp a ‘world leaders’ style.

Omar al-Bashir

Omar al-Bashir, the President of The Sudan wanders freely as a bird o'er vales and hills, Africa, and most of the Middle East, despite being wanted International Criminal Court, on charges of genocide.

 

As long as he stays in Islamic and African countries he can't be touched. So much for world justice or opinion. 

Update: He was ousted from power and arrested in April 2019 ... he's been in detention ever since but wasn't sent to the ICC in the Hague .... the country is of course in the middle of yet another civil war.

The Arab World Ignores International Criminal Court

Omar al-Bashir the Sudanese President .... 

Omar Al-Bashir

.... has visited five Arab countries since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an international warrant for his arrest. 

Sharia Law in the Sudan and elsewhere

Also in today's news, the English woman teacher in Sudan under arrest because her Muslim kids in a Christian / Muslim school named a teddy bear 'Mohammad' .... 

 

Bear And Teacher Are Innocent

..... was still in Prison for the third day.