Posts Tagged ‘christian right’
Why German homeschoolers get asylum and torture survivors don’t
I don’t know, actually. Maybe Uwe Romeike got lucky? Maybe asylum is starting to change? Maybe judges like evangelicals? Or white people better than black people? Or maybe we just really, <em>really</em> hate the European Court of Human Rights? In late January, A US immigration judge in Memphis, Tenn., recently granted asylum to a German [...]
Haitian voodoo is devil’s work, says Robertson. But Liberian gold? Bring it on.
The most interesting tidbit in Colum Lynch’s recent article, about Liberian warlord Charles Taylor’s American contacts, is “Blood Diamond”-mining Taylor apparently got Pat “Haiti-deserved-it” Robertson in the gold business. Per Lynch, Taylor claimed in his trial that Robertson took the concession and then lobbied George W. Bush to help keep Taylor in power. Apparently Robertson [...]
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