Rising fascism in the US

As a woman, and if you had to make this choice, would you rather live in a predominently Catholic country, or in a predominently Muslim country?

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out Sunday at another U.N. human rights expert for making critical remarks about his supposed role in the expulsion of the chief justice, telling him "to go to hell."

Duterte dismissed the remarks of Diego Garcia-Sayan and told him not to meddle in domestic problems. Duterte was replying to a reporter's question before flying on a visit to South Korea.

"Tell him not to interfere with the affairs of my country. He can go to hell," Duterte said in a late-night televised news conference. "He is not a special person and I do not recognize his rapporteur title."

Garcia-Sayan told reporters in Manila on Thursday that the unprecedented ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno as chief justice after Duterte lambasted her in public is an attack on judicial independence that could put Philippine democracy at risk.

Duterte has reacted with similar public outbursts in the past against other U.N. rapporteurs who raised alarm and sought an independent investigation into his bloody campaign against illegal drugs, which has left thousands of mostly poor drug suspects dead.

On Thursday, the Moroccan delegation to the UNGA held a reception in Morocco’s residence in New York in the presence of Nasser Bourita, Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, Director-General of Directorate of Studies and Documentation (DGED), and Omar Hilale, Moroccan Ambassador to the United Nations (UN).


During the reception, the African and Caribbean delegations expressed their appreciation for Morocco, which they said, due to the king’s clear-sighted leadership, has become a bastion of political stability and an advocate of South-South cooperation and co-development, enhancing investment and partnership in both the African continent and the Caribbean region, reported Maghreb Arab Press (MAP).

Umaro Sissoco Embalo, Guinea-Bissau’s Prime Minister, expressed his gratitude to Morocco, which in the past “showed support to several African liberation movements.” He also recalled the “great historical ties of his country to Morocco.”

Those bonds, he explained, has been renewed at “higher level under the leadership of King Mohammed VI with his many royal visits to Africa and laudable initiatives towards the continent,” said Embalo. He noted that “Morocco’s airline Royal Air Maroc was the only airline that did not stop its flights to the African countries that were affected by Ebola.”

Embalo has also emphasized that the king’s speech during the 28th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa “will be forever engraved in the memory of Africa.” The official has also recalled one of the strongest statements delivered by the King during the 28th African Union Summit, when he said, “I am home at last and happily reunited with you.”

Leonardo She Okitundu, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said that his country “appreciates positively” Morocco’s actions in Africa and the return of the country within the African Union.

“It was a very emotional moment when the sovereign marked his return to the great African family,” explained Okitundu. “Morocco has regained its place not only because it is an African country, but above all it has much to offer in terms of South-South and triangular cooperation.”

Colin Granderson, Deputy Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), pointed out that Morocco is a great friend of the Caribbean countries, with which it has “very close” cooperation relations.

Granderson also applauded Morocco’s leadership internationally and within the United Nations, including the kingdom’s commitment to actions on climate change, which he said is a high priority for Caribbean countries vulnerable to extreme weather.

The rescue of the Danish Jews occurred during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark during World War II. On October 1, 1943, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered Danish Jews to be arrested and deported. Despite great personal risk, the Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many ordinary Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses, by sea to nearby neutral Sweden.

The rescue allowed the vast majority of Denmark's Jewish population to avoid capture by the Nazis and is considered to be one of the largest actions of collective resistance to aggression in the countries occupied by Nazi Germany. As a result of the rescue, and the following Danish intercession on behalf of the 464 Danish Jews who were captured and deported to the Theresienstadt transit camp in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, over 99% of Denmark's Jewish population survived the Holocaust.

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Friday it had agreed to put $60 million into a fund managed by the United States to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi death camps, a deal that protects it from future U.S. litigation.

About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War Two and transported in appalling conditions in railway boxcars to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, where most died.

In 1995 France’s then-president, Jacques Chirac, officially acknowledged for the first time French complicity in the wartime deportations. But it was only in 2009 that France’s highest court recognized the state’s responsibility.

I wouldn't like to live in any country which was not free to believe in whatever they want to believe in and practice that belief however they see fit, or free to not to believe in anything without any fear persecution. That is just my personal preference. Otherwise I am out of this pitting one country against another contest.

No offense.

État musulman souverain, attaché à son unité nationale et à son intégrité territoriale, le Royaume du Maroc entend préserver, dans sa plénitude et sa diversité, son identité nationale une et indivisible. Son unité, forgée par la convergence de ses composantes arabo-islamique, amazighe et saharo-hassanie, s'est nourrie et enrichie de ses affluents africain, andalou, hébraïque et méditerranéen.

La prééminence accordée à la religion musulmane dans ce référentiel national va de pair avec l'attachement du peuple marocain aux valeurs d'ouverture, de modération, de tolérance et de dialogue pour la compréhension mutuelle entre toutes les cultures et les civilisations du monde.

In medieval times I believe the acceptable age to be married was 10,

Unlike most Western countries, 20 of the U.S. states do not have a legal minimum age of marriage. Individuals aged 18 have the ability to marry in U.S. states except Nebraska (19) and Mississippi (21). In addition, all states, except Delaware, allow minors to marry in certain circumstances, such as parental consent, judicial consent, pregnancy, or a combination of these situations. Most states allow parties aged 16 and 17 to marry with parental consent alone. In most states, children under 16 can be married too. In the 30 states which have an absolute minimum age set by statute, this age varies between 13 and 18, while in 20 states there is no statutory minimum age if other legal conditions are met. Although in such states there is no set minimum age by statute, the traditional common law minimum age is 14 for boys and 12 for girls - ages which have been confirmed by case law in some states. Over the past 15 years, more than 200,000 minors married in US, and in Tennessee girls as young as 10 were married in 2001, before the state finally set a minimum age of 17 in 2018.

Do you accept the possibility that maybe these indigenous cultures are not actually inferior to yours, and yours just seems right to you because you are a part of it?