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Immediately after the March 2 assassination of Pakistani Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, the finger-pointing began.
For the last 10 weeks the winds of change have been sweeping the Arab world, in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Algeria and Bahrain. The people of these countries are making history by peacefully demanding democracy, liberty and social justice.
Muslim community leaders in western countries are often criticized by people in the western media for not condemning terrorist attacks perpetrated in the name of Islam. However, these same critics almost never ask them to condemn Muslim tyrants when they kill their own people.
Maude Barlow is a woman of many causes, but water is the one that is perhaps closest to her heart.
Western media always welcomes the overthrow of a dictator -- great headline news -- but this instance was greeted with less than euphoria by Western -- especially American -- leaders, who tried to soft-peddle it much as did official Egyptian media till the leader fled the palace.
In 2005, world leaders unanimously agreed that in situations where governments were manifestly failing in their sovereign duty, the international community, acting through the United Nations, would take "timely and decisive" action to honour the collective responsibility to protect people against atrocity crimes. Libya today is the place and time to redeem that pledge.
Pondering Whither America, I reflected on a story, probably apocryphal but which I am going to believe because I like it, about catching monkeys. Tribesmen somewhere craft a heavy pot with a hole in it large enough that a monkey could insert an open hand, but not withdraw a closed fist. They then put monkey food in the pot. The monkey reaches in, grabs the food and, refusing to let go when the hunters approach, is caught and eaten.
Egypt, an iconic destination with antiquities we have all learned about since our youth, is inviting Canadians and other Westerns to visit during March or Easter breaks or soon after. The time is now. Visit Egypt with your family and friends. Go to the Red Sea. Visit Luxur and Aswan. Take a Nile cruise. See Cairo's Tahrir Square with your kids.
“The disorder now sweeping the Middle East is allowing the Arab people to breathe the fresh air of dignity,” said Dr. Norman Finkelstein, speaking at a Kitchener Ontario church on Feb. 17.
There are active discussions taking place between Canada and Washington on a common security perimeter, or more precisely, a common security and economic perimeter.
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