Thursday, June 18, 2015

Racism has no borders

Today a young white man who believes in South Africa's Apartheid and Rhodesia's models enter a church where African American people pray to shoot them indiscriminately. 

This happened in South Carolina, Unites States. A country with a history of proactive anti-discrimination action. A democratic country where the rights of minorities are guaranteed by the constitution and where the rule of law is upheld. A Country where wealth, hope, and the pursuit of happiness are almost a religion.

How then are Americans surprised to see young people joining fundamentalist movements that are fascist and racists in nature. The actions of these organization are mass hate crimes.
How can they be surprised when these crimes are committed by young men that live in countries where there is no rule of law and where hope is a rare commodity. 

Hate and violence are a human reality that we need to fight; it is not restricted to certain societies and cultures. 
It is a curse and plague of all humanity.

I wonder if this is clear the so called "western civilization".

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Obama on Yemen

Just heard an American analyst on Al-Jazeera saying that Obama does not care who governs Yemen, what is important is the stability. 
He then added, Obama prefers to have in Yemen a democratic process rather than a dictator. And given that the Houthy represent the majority of the Yemenis they should be part of the process. 
It is not the first time I hear this analysis. 
Do they think we are stupid? or are they stupid? 
Hadi became president of Yemen through a transparent internaitonally observed election tha followed a peaceful revolt that unthroned Abdallah Saleh who was a dictator. This is a fact, the guy is legal and not a dictator. 
In addition the Houthy represent less than 50% of the Houties who are a minority of 10% of the population, so how can he represent the majority of the population? 
Their strength comes from their alliance with the ousted dictator Abdallah Saleh who was in control for 30 years of the army. His control over the army remained even after his ousting. He worked to undermine Hadi and finally went to Iran to make a deal. The result was an unholy alliance between old foes, Saleh and the Houthy.
The Houthy are backed by Iran and have been through the unlawful use of weapons undermining the democratic process. Iranian officials have themselves declared that they aim from their support of the Houthy to emulate the Hezbollah experience in Lebanon. Meaning the creation of a state within the state. And independant force that would take its lead from Iran.
These are facts and not analysis. 
So can somebody explain the ethics or soundness of the Obama and UN positions? 
Again is it lack of understanding? or smuggness? or just bad will?