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A Christian woman lights a candle during a mass to celebrate the Orthodox Christmas at Saint Serkis church in Damascus/Khaled al-Hariri

Syrian President Basher Assad isnâ€™t the only target of Syrian rebels as Syriaâ€™s Orthodox Christian ChurchÂ reportsÂ â€œongoing ethnic cleansing of Christiansâ€ by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.

[Frank Crimi, frontpagemag.com,Â Mar 29th, 2012]Â The report from the Vatican news agency Fides says Brigade Faruq, which has links with elements of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Islamist mercenaries from Libya, has expelled 90 percent of Christians living in Homs, nearly 50,000 people.

Reportedly, the armed Islamists went door to door in the Christian neighborhoods of Hamidiya and Bustan al-Diwan informing the homeowners that if they did not leave immediately they would be shot. Then pictures of their corpses would be taken and sent to al-Jazeera, along with the message that the Syrian government had killed them. Continue lendo →

Activist Samira Ibrahim reacts after the verdict of a military court, in Cairo, Egypt, 11 March 2012. She now vows to take her case to the international courts Photograph: Str/EPA

The verdict over ‘virginity tests’ was a blow to the feminist struggle in Egypt. Here, the woman who sacrificed everything to bring the case to court, warns that women’s rights are now under threat from two sides – the military and the Islamists.

[Abdel-Rahman Hussein, The Guardian, March 13, 2012] Cairo -Â Samira Ibrahim is talking tough, but her face looks fraught. The decision by a military court on Sunday to exonerate a former military doctor from conducting “virginity tests” on female protestors in March last year is a setback and a big blow to her personally.

For Ibrahim was the first to speak out about being subjected to this violation along with six other women at a military prison where they were kept overnight, having been arrested in Tahrir Square. It has been a difficult year for Ibrahim, but she is adamant she will not back down. Continue lendo →

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Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Christians ~ Frank Crimi

Syrian President Basher Assad isnâ€™t the only target of Syrian rebels as Syriaâ€™s Orthodox Christian ChurchÂ reportsÂ â€œongoing ethnic cleansing of Christiansâ€ by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.

‘The future of Egyptian women is in danger’ – Samira Ibrahim speaks out

The verdict over ‘virginity tests’ was a blow to the feminist struggle in Egypt. Here, the woman who sacrificed everything to bring the case to court, warns that women’s rights are now under threat from two sides – the military and the Islamists.

Syrian President Basher Assad isnâ€™t the only target of Syrian rebels as Syriaâ€™s Orthodox Christian ChurchÂ reportsÂ â€œongoing ethnic cleansing of Christiansâ€ by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.

The verdict over ‘virginity tests’ was a blow to the feminist struggle in Egypt. Here, the woman who sacrificed everything to bring the case to court, warns that women’s rights are now under threat from two sides – the military and the Islamists.

Syrian President Basher Assad isnâ€™t the only target of Syrian rebels as Syriaâ€™s Orthodox Christian ChurchÂ reportsÂ â€œongoing ethnic cleansing of Christiansâ€ by al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militant groups in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.