Many of the other FTBers have already written about this, and while I have little to add other than my own outrage, I want to make sure everyone has seen the story. A Saudi man was arrested in Malaysia and sent back to Saudi Arabia to face possible death over “blasphemous” Tweets about Muhammad.
Category Archive: Human Rights
Feb 13 2012
Obama, Terror Policy and Bipartisan Consensus
A new Washington Post poll finds a significant shift in the views of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans when it comes to major anti-terror policies. On issues like drone strikes, Guantanamo Bay and the Patriot Act, Democrats are now more likely to support them now that Obama is in office, while Republicans are less likely …
Jan 05 2012
ACLU Ranks Presidential Candidates
The ACLU has put out a voter guide for all the 2012 presidential candidates, ranking them all on 7 issues: humane immigration policy, closing Gitmo and indefinite detention, gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, ending torture, ending the surveillance state, same-sex marriage, and reproductive rights. Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s executive director, writes:
Dec 21 2011
Democratic Blindness to Obama’s Faults
I had a brief but absurd exchange with someone on my Facebook friends list on Saturday. His name is Mike Jordan, but I don’t know him; I assumed he was on my friends list because he’s a blog reader. And he quoted George Clooney saying something about how he was disappointed in people who were …
Dec 12 2011
Hillary Clinton Plays Pretend
Hillary Clinton gave a speech about equal rights for gays and lesbians in Geneva last week and most of it was quite laudable. But there was one section in it that is clearly false and contrary to reality. She said:
Dec 08 2011
To What Extent the Appeal? Part 2
- guest-blogged by W. Kevin Vicklund Late last year, I guest-blogged on the old Dispatches about whether the government should be required to appeal a policy it doesn’t want to defend. While I ended up deciding that the executive branch should be allowed to cut bait after the initial trial without being forced to appeal, …
Dec 01 2011
Chait Whitewashes Obama’s Record
While I was on vacation, Jonathan Chait, usually a solid thinker and writer, wrote a really annoying article in New York magazine about why so many liberals are disappointed with President Obama’s performance in office. It’s a massive, 5,000 word screed that pretty much completely misses the point. His argument is essentially that liberals are …
Nov 29 2011
Taxpayers Pay For Propaganda for Dictators
Foreign Policy reports that a Pentagon program is spending $120 million a year on building propaganda websites to support repressive dictators around the world, including Uzbekistan thug Islam Karimov.
Oct 06 2011
Most Disturbing Thing I’ve Read This Week
From an article in the Wilson Quarterly: In Egypt, the practice of female genital mutilation spans millennia, dating back to the pharaohs. In 2005, a United Nations report found that 97 percent of Egyptian females between the ages of 15 and 49 had undergone one of four types of genital mutilation—clitoridectomy, excision, infibulations, or the …
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