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• Indonesia-West Papua-Papua New Guinea : Islamist groups preparing for jihad
  6 October 2019, by siawi3

  Over the last week, increasingly strong evidence from multiple sources have come to light that Islamic groups are mobilizing volunteers for what they are calling a ‘Jihad’ (holy war) against the ‘OPM’ in Wamena in the central highlands of the West Papua region. The paramilitary groups make no secret of the fact that they are recruiting to ’defend,’ there is no guarantee that there will be no escalation of violence.

• SEP (Australia) To Hold Election Rally And Meetings In Defence Of Assange
  25 April 2019, by siawi3

  The SEP rallies and meetings will demand that the Australian government immediately use its legal discretion and diplomatic powers to secure Assange’s safe passage to Australia, with a guarantee against extradition to the US.

• Australia: Senate censures Fraser Anning over ’shameful’ Christchurch mosque attack comments
  3 April 2019, by siawi3

  A censure motion against Independent senator Fraser Anning has passed the Senate without a single vote against it. His comments were labelled “pathetic” and “shameful” that linked Muslim migration to the terror attacks in Christchurch last month. Senator Fraser Anning blamed the attack on 50 worshippers at mosques last month on Muslim migrants.

• Australia: What do we do when the terrorist is “one of us”? (and other hard questions in the aftermath of the Christchurch shooting)
  11 April 2019, by siawi3

  if Australian Muslims are expected to distance themselves from terrorism and renounce extremist political sentiment as part of the compact of social cohesion, then what is required for Australian society to renounce extremist political discourse and actions as a whole? It is a problem we need to face together, as one people, as fellow-citizens and fellow human beings. The alternative ― of being caught up in a bloody and deadly “Race War” ― is unthinkable.

• Outspoken Maldives Blogger Who Challenged Radical Islamists Is Killed.
  24 April 2017, by siawi3

  “A brave voice, brutally silenced,” former President Mohamed Nasheed said. A liberal blogger who wrote satirical critiques of the Maldivian government and the spread of radical Islam died Sunday after being stabbed in the stairway of his apartment building. The blogger, Yameen Rasheed, 29, had complained repeatedly to the police about receiving death threats, he said in an interview with The New York Times this year, adding that the police often failed to return his calls or dropped his complaints without investigation.

• Australia: Proposed new terror laws
  23 November 2018, by siawi3

  The reform would change the current law, which allows citizenship to be stripped if a convicted terrorist gets more than 6 years in prison. The council says the federal government should explain why the current law is inadequate.

• Jean-Yves Camus : ce que révèle le « manifeste » du terroriste de Christchurch
  16 mars 2019, par siawi3
  Source : http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/2019/03/15/31002-20190315ARTFIG00179-jean-yves-camus-il-ne-faut-pas-instrumentaliser-les-crimesde-christchurch.php
  Jean-Yves Camus : ce que révèle le « manifeste » du terroriste de Christchurch
  Par Paul Sugy  (...)
• Papua New Guinea: Stop sorcery violence !
  24 November 2018, by siawi3

  There are more incidents of sorcery accusation related violence now, many of them not covered in the media, with the majority accused being female. A recent visit to Wabag, the capital of Enga province in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, highlighted how difficult it is to address crime and violence, even really serious crime like torture and killing, in a volatile and poorly resourced place.

• Australia: Shifting the Centre of Gravity: Julian Assange Receives His Passport
  1 March 2019, by siawi3

  Australian Senator Rex Patrick of the Centre Alliance pressed officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade whether they had engaged their US counterparts about possible safe passage for Assange in the event he left the embassy. “The Australian government does have a role to play in the resolution of the Julian Assange case.”

• France : Attentat de Christchurch : La position laïque
  19 mars 2019, par siawi3

  Nous ne pouvons qu’éprouver un sentiment de révolte à chaque fois qu’un acte de haine vise des individus ou une communauté en raison de leurs croyances ou de leurs appartenances religieuses réelles ou supposées. Assassins de Daesh ou néonazis, ces barbares partagent la haine de l’autre et l’intolérance viscérale à la diversité des opinions, des croyances et des cultures, et par-dessus tout à leur mélange pacifique dans une société fraternelle.

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