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Salem-News.com (Apr-22-2013 09:07:00)

The Truth Will Set Us Free? Comment about Cafe Palestine Freiburg versus University of Freiburg

The university itself is clearly terrified of the truth being told within its walls.

(FREIBURG) - Univ of Freiburg I was brought up in a country that believed itself to be open and tolerant. Indeed after the Second World War Germany undertook to transform guilt into responsibility.

For me, it was always clear that our commitment to those "inviolable and inalienable human rights(1)" as well as freedom of speech (2), were the most precious values and lessons to be drawn from our problematic past.

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 18:36:00)

Sri Lanka President Urged to Contain Buddhist Attacks on Muslims

They are using abusive language when referring to our religious practices and publicly calling for a boycott of businesses run by Muslims...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Sri Lanka President Majinda Rajapaksa In a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, Mr. N.M. Ameen, President Muslim Council of Sri Lanka has urged the President to contain attacks on Muslims by Buddhist extremists.

He says groups are using the traditional and social media, public meetings, posters, leaflets, and the circulation of rumours and misinformation insulting Muslims to inculcate a sense of fear and hatred

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 18:26:00)

`Burmese Bin Laden` Spreads Hatred Against Muslims

Wirathu is a key leader in the militant Buddhist “969″ movement.

(MANDALAY Mayu Press) - Monk Wirathu Flying in the face of the Western stereotypes about Buddhists, a highly popular monk in Myanmar is calling for persecution of the country’s Muslims.

Wirathu is a 45-year old monk, is going so far as to deem himself the “Burmese Bin Laden.”

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 18:14:00)

32 Killed, 190 Injured During Thingyan Water Festival in Myanmar

Among the country's 12 festivals, the Thingyan water festival is considered to be the grandest since it is deemed to bring peace and prosperity to Myanmar people.

(YANGON Xinhua) - Thingyan water festival A total of 32 people were killed and 190 others injured during the Thingyan water festival in Myanmar, official media reported Saturday.

Myanmar New Year's Thingyan water festivals were held across the country from April 13 to 16, said the New Light of Myanmar.

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 17:25:00)

Burma Riots: Video Shows Police Failing to Stop Attack

The BBC has obtained police video showing officers standing by while Buddhist rioters attacked minority Muslims in the town of Meiktila.

(MEIKTILA, Burma BBC) - Violence in Burma The footage shows a mob destroying a Muslim gold shop and then setting fire to houses. A man thought to be a Muslim is seen on fire.

It was filmed last month, when at least 43 people were killed in Meiktila.

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 16:25:00)

Suspicious Objects Turn Out to be Dead Animal Carcasses

It is not known who placed suspicious containers under a freeway bridge, or why.

(SALEM) - Suspicious device in Oregon, 4-20-13 Hazardous Device Technicians with Oregon State Police removed and checked three suspicious containers Saturday afternoon.

They were located under the southbound Interstate 5 bridge over the Santiam River, near milepost 240.

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 16:06:00)

`The Demons of War are Persistent` - A Personal Story of Prolonged PTSD

Understand that it is never too late in your life to begin looking forward and achieving new objectives.

(POICVIANA, Fla.) - Art Schade`s book Forty years have passed since my deployment as a combat Marine to Vietnam. However, only several years since I acknowledged my inability to continue suppressing the demons alone.

Like many veterans, the “Demons” have haunted me through nightmares, altered personas, and hidden fears.

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 15:09:00)

Greatest Purveyor of Violence

The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who do not go to war, promise a mirage to those who do.
--Chris Hedges

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech in New Yorkh on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered.

He called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 14:41:00)

Bahraini Insiders Believe Formula 1 Circuit May be Set on Flames

Rumors say that 14 February Youth coalition and several other resistant groups will set the circuit on flames by Cocktail Molotov or some sort of bomb to stop the competition.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - F1 in Bahrain Rumors have been spreading around the country about setting fire to the circuit’s main building or planting a bomb on the days of competition.

The Grand Prix competition was cancelled in 2011 due to the unrest and mass demonstrations for rights...

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Salem-News.com (Apr-21-2013 14:19:00)

Tyranny of the Minority Sinks Meaningful Gun Control Legislation

Failed gun control legislation has again fallen victim to the tyranny of the minority.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Given the Sandy Hook school killings, the supermarket shootings near Tucson, the pleas for gun control legislation by the parents of victims, and the testimony by Gabrielle Giffords, you would think that reasonable gun control legislation would likely pass in the U.S. Senate.

Regrettably, it is not to be.

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