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Priests lead Orthodox anti-gays in violent Tbilisi clashes with rights activists, police (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
The first sanctioned anti-homophobic rally in Georgia organized by Identity NGO activists had to be moved to a public garden on Tbilisi’s Freedom Square after a 10,000-strong Orthodox crowd gathered at the initial rally spot on Friday.But heavy police cordons failed to contain furious anti-gay activists led by priests, who rushed to the new gay parade location. Upon breaking into the public garden, the agitated crowd engaged in a violent pursuit, beating and throwing stones at all the people who were thought to be representing and advocating for the minorities.At least 17 people were injured in clashes, and 12 of them hospitalized, Georgian Rustavi 2 TV reported. A journalist and a passer-by were among the injured.The police and special task forces managed to evacuate the rally participants using minibuses, but several vehicles were attacked in the process. Counter-demonstrators blocked the way and smashed the windows of a yellow van, in which minorities were thought to be carried.Georgian ombudsman Uchya Nanusahvili was also compelled to leave the scene guarded by a dozen police after trying to persuade the Orthodox believers not to obstruct the gay rally, according to Interfax. The angry crowd responded to the rights commissioner plea by shouting insults. … Read More
Italy’s first black minister brushes off racism
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Italy’s first black minister, Cecile Kyenge, has said the country is not particularly racist despite receiving a barrage of racist and sexist insults since becoming one of seven women in the new government.
The Italian citizen originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was named integration minister by Prime Minister Enrico Letta on April 27.
The 49-year-old eye doctor said she believes hostile attitudes stem mainly from ignorance:
“I am not ‘coloured’, I’m black, it is important to say that, I emphasise it proudly.”
“We need to break down these walls. If you don’t know someone, scepticism increases, discrimination increases. Immigration is a richness. Differences are a resource.”
The minister has received taunts from far-right websites which branded her; “Zulu”, “Congolese monkey” and “the black anti-Italian.”
She also received insults from Mario Borghezio, a European Parliament member for the Northern League.
He referred to the coalition as a “Bongo Bongo government” – a play on the Bunga Bunga parties of the Berlusconi era – and said “Kyenge would make a good housewife but not a minister”.
Kyenge plans to push for legislation opposed by the League that would allow children born in Italy to immigrant parents to be given automatic citizenship instead of having to apply when they turn 18.
Although millions of Italian emigrants left the country throughout the 19th and 20th centuries to find jobs and a new life overseas, the country has struggled to integrate those from other countries who have come to Italy seeking work.
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Egypt’s ‘Jon Stewart’ Bassem Youssef freed on bail
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef was released on bail on Sunday after nearly five hours of questioning over alleged insults to the president and religion, highlighting concerns over freedom of expression in post-revolt Egypt. Youssef, whose weekly programme Albernameg (The Show) has pushed the…
Chavez’s successor asks US not to frame him with rival’s murder
Maduro cited “a very good source” as to why he believes such aconspiracy exists.”I call on President Obama – Roger Noriega, Otto Reich,officials at the Pentagon and at the CIA are behind a plan toassassinate the right-wing presidential candidate to createchaos,” Maduro said in a TV interview broadcast on Sunday.The acting president first mentioned the alleged plot to killhis rival, Henrique Capriles, last week. Former Bush administrationdiplomats Noriega and Reich both dismissed the claim as defamatoryand untrue.Capriles kicked off his opposition campaign in Venezuela’sprovinces ahead of the April 14 election. He said if anythinghappens to him, Maduro should be blamed.During his years in office, late Venezuelan President HugoChavez often accused the US of conspiring against his country. Heblamed Noriega, former US ambassador to the Organization ofAmerican States, and Reich, former US ambassador in Caracas, ofseeking to destabilize Venezuela.Maduro is the preferred successor named by Chavez ahead of acancer operation from which he failed to recover. Capriles was theleading opposition candidate in the previous election, which helost to Chavez.The ongoing campaign has been marked by a particularly nastyatmosphere, with both camps accusing each other of dirty tricks,and Capriles and Maduro trading personal insults.Two polls taken before Chavez’s death on March 5 showed Maduroahead of Capriles by around 10 percentage points. … Read More
Fox News guest Zerlina Maxwell: ‘I refuse to be silenced’ by rape threats
Democratic strategist Zerlina Maxwell on Monday said she would not be silenced by vulgar insults and threats of violence, and would continue speaking out against rape. “I’m certainly taking steps to protect my emotional health, but I will not be quiet because I refuse to be bullied into…
You’re such a jerk
Insults are painful because we have certain social needs. We seek to be among other people, and once among them, we seek to form relationships with them and to improve our position on the social hierarchy. They are also painful because we have a need to project our self-image and to have other people not only accept this image, but support it. If we didn’t have these needs, being insulted wouldn’t feel bad. Furthermore, although different people experience different amounts of pain on being insulted, almost everyone will experience some pain. Indeed, we would search long and hard to find a person who is never pained by insults—or who himself never feels the need to insult others.These observations raise a question: why do we have the social needs we do? According to evolutionary psychologists, our social needs—and, more generally, our psychological propensities—are the result of nature rather than nurture. More precisely, they are a consequence of our evolutionary past. The views of evolutionary psychologists are of interest in this, a study of insults, for the simple reason that they allow us to gain a deeper understanding of why it is painful when others insult us and why we go out of our way to cause others pain by insulting them.Continue Reading… … Read More
