[net-gold] DISASTERS: FLOODS : COUNTRIES: PAKISTAN : TERRORISM: Jolie's Plea on Pakistan Floods: 'We Have to Support Them'
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DISASTERS: FLOODS :
COUNTRIES: PAKISTAN :
TERRORISM:
Jolie's Plea on Pakistan Floods: 'We Have to Support Them'
Jolie's Plea on Pakistan Floods: 'We Have to Support Them'
September 8th, 2010
CNN
<http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/08/
jolies-plea-on-pakistan-floods-we-have-to-support-them/>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/37yrtlm>
For Angelina Jolie, the scale and impact of the floods that have
devastated Pakistan are apparent on the faces of those she meets.
She saw it in the eyes of a couple in their 70s a husband who served
twice in the military and built his house by himself for his family, one
they've lived in for nearly 40 years.
"The man spoke to the fact that he never felt in his lifetime he is ever
going to be able to recuperate what he lost," Jolie told Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
CNN's chief medical correspondent. "That he would never have again nice
things. He would never have a nice bed, a nice house. And she they lived
in this place since 1972. And raised their children and their
grandchildren there. In a moment, a few hours, it was completely gone."
Jolie spoke to Gupta during her fourth trip to Pakistan as a spokeswoman
for the U.N. refugee agency to help bring awareness to the country in the
wake of devastating floods that have affected 21 million people.
It's a scene Jolie said may be hard for some to understand especially
because of how far away it is. If people saw the eyes of the children
pleading for help, perhaps they'd understand the Pakistanis' will to live,
she said.
"If they met all these children [who are] so resilient and are still
children and so full of life and love and hope," Jolie said that she
thinks people would grasp the situation better.
"I think it is this part of the world, they are resilient people. Think
of all that they have been hit with. They continue to move on, to
rebuild."
Angelina Jolie calls for more Pakistan flood aid
By Claire Truscott
AFP
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/
article/ALeqM5gNDLjSK2hbzMv22EDAezxx0VdOHQ>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/367dqov>
ISLAMABAD Hollywood star Angelina Jolie urged people on Wednesday to put
aside corruption fears and donate cash to help Pakistan's 21 million flood
victims, as she ended a tour of areas devastated by deluges.
Pakistan's government has been heavily criticised at home and abroad over
perceived corruption, which many attribute to the slow pace of donations
to the UN's flood appeal, which has raised two thirds of its 460 million
dollar goal.
"I don't want some people to use it (corruption) as an excuse not to give
assistance," Jolie told reporters at the UN refugee agency's Islamabad
office.
"I have seen what they have done in the field. I've physically seen people
assisted, so if you are nervous about giving money directly in one way
there are other ways to do it," she said.
There have been allegations that aid funds have been mishandled since the
start of the floods crisis six weeks ago, and despite massive relief
efforts by the UN, United States and other donors, the UN has spoken of
Pakistan's "image deficit" affecting donations.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said its own appeal is only half-funded, and
Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman at the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs, said extra monies were "still stagnating".
Jolie, clad in a grey dress and black head scarf, spoke after visiting the
militant-hit northwest of the country, home to 1.7 million long-term
Afghan refugees who have fled fighting in their neighbouring country.
Angelina Jolie condemns planned Koran burning
Washington Post
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/
2010/09/angelina_jolie_condemns_purpos.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/36k4jec>
When asked about the church's plan, Jolie responded, "I have hardly the
words that somebody would do that to somebody's religious book."
Jolie is in Pakistan visiting victims of the recent flooding, the worst in
the country's history.
Vatican condemns planned Koran burning in U.S.
Wed Sep 8, 2010 11:51am GMT
Reuters
<http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE68722W20100908>
In a statement on Wednesday, the Vatican said it had heard with great
concern of the planned commemoration of the September 11, 2001 hijack
attacks, which killed 2,752 people.
"These deplorable acts of violence, in fact, cannot be counteracted by an
outrageous and grave gesture against a book considered sacred by a
religious community," it said.
Gov. Barbour: No Excuse for Koran Burning; Stirring up Anti-Muslim
Sentiments a Distraction for GOP
September 08, 2010 1:53 PM
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/09/gov-barbour-no-
excuse-for-koran-burning-stirring-up-anti-muslim-
sentiments-a-distraction-for-gop.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/3ytwo4h>
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour today joined in denunciations of the
Florida pastor whos planning a Koran burning and warned that Republicans
who seek to stir up anti-Muslim sentiments are distracting the GOP from
its core messaging this fall.
I do not think well of the idea of burning anybody's Koran, or Bible, Book
of Mormon or anything else. ... I dont think theres any excuse for it,
Barbour, R-Miss., the chairman of the Republican Governors Association,
told a breakfast gathering of reporters in Washington sponsored by the
Christian Science Monitor.
Asked about Republicans who are using issues like the planned mosque and
Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan to stoke anti-Muslim feelings,
Barbour said:
I dont see it, but I will tell you this: Any issue that takes peoples eye
off of unemployment, job creation, economic growth, taxes, spending,
deficits, debt, is taking your eye off the ball.
Is burning Quran a hate crime or a free speech issue?
Sep 08, 2010
USA Today
<http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/
post/2010/09/koran-quran-dove-burn-hate-crime/1>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/39nghcu>
Is burning a Bible because you hate Christianity, a hate crime? How about
burning a Torah? Is that an anti-Semitic act? And this brings us to the
question of burning a Quran....
Is the Dove World Outreach Center's Quran bonfire, planned for the
Saturday anniversary of the 9/11 attack, a hate crime or n expression of
free speech -- like the deplorable but legal protest act of burning a U.S.
flag to object to a government policy? (You can vote at the end of this
post.)
I noticed that my colleague Doug Stanglin's On Deadline blog, which is
running a constant update on the church's plans, has a quick poll to
readers. Of the 4,273 people who voted in the unscientific survey by early
this morning, 24% said the church should not cancel its plans.
But there's no way of telling if they say Dove should fly with this
because they agree with the pastor's stance that Islam is "of the devil"
or because they see it as a free speech issue.
But do the 76% who say Dove should not do this object because they see,
like General David Petraeus and the Vatican, a potential flash point for
worldwide violent protest, or because they deem it as a hate crime, one
intended to generate fear and loathing of Muslims based on their beliefs
that these are the words of Allah?
Koran burning would ruin ties
September 2010 | 08:30:59 PM |
Source: AFP
SBS.com.AU
<http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/
1348447/Koran-burning-would-ruin-ties>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/37gyqk5>
"If the government fails to stop this, this will be the latest
manifestation of religious terrorism, and it would ruin America's
relations with the Muslim world," said Sheikh Abdel Muti al-Bayyumi, who
sits on the Sunni Muslim seat of learning's highest council, the Islamic
Research Academy.
"This will give an opportunity to terrorism. Are they trying to fight
terrorism or encourage it?" Bayyumi asked.
Church leaders rally, speak out against anti-Muslim rhetoric
By Matthew Davies
September 08, 2010
Episcopal Life
<http://www.episcopal-life.org/79425_124391_ENG_HTM.htm>
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Church in Gainesville,
Florida, has said he will proceed with what he is calling "International
Burn a Koran Day" despite warnings from high-ranking church and
governmental leaders that his actions could have grave consequences for
national security and Christians throughout the world.
On Sept. 7, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs echoed the concern
recently expressed by Gen. David Petraeus, NATO's International Security
Assistance Force commander in Afghanistan, that the Quran burning could
danger U.S. troops and citizens abroad.
A group of U.S. interfaith leaders -- including the Rev. Michael Kinnamon,
general secretary of the National Council of Churches, and Episcopal
Diocese of New York Bishop Mark Sisk -- held a summit and press conference
Sept. 7 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to condemn Jones'
plans and to decry incidents of violence committed against innocent
Muslims.
An NCC press release said the leaders acknowledged the "anti-Muslim
frenzy" that has existed in the U.S. since plans were announced to build
an Islamic community center near Ground Zero -- where the twin towers of
the World Trade Center stood before they were attacked and destroyed by
Muslim extremists on Sept. 11, 2001. The center, now known as Park 51, has
drawn both criticism and support.
"The plan to build this center is, without doubt, an emotionally highly
charged issue," Sisk said in an Aug. 24 letter to his diocese. "But as a
nation with tolerance and religious freedom at its very foundation, we
must not let our emotions lead us into the error of persecuting or
condemning an entire religion for the sins of its most misguided
adherents."
The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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