A moving expression of dignified pageantry:
Nightly border closing between India and Pakistan
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The UK is planning on withholding aid to African countries with poor gay rights
From here:
Andrew Mitchell, the International development secretary has confirmed that the British government will withhold aid from countries with homophobic countries but denied that it will harm the most poor in those countries
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Last week, the Mail on Sunday revealed that aid ‘fines’ may be imposed on countries such as Uganda and Ghana for hard-line anti-gay laws.
The UK hasn’t altered its plans to double aid to Pakistan, though. Of course, although Pakistan persecutes gays just like any other part of the burgeoning Islamic caliphate, it compensates for it by also persecuting Christians, providing the UK with a vicarious sense of atonement for real or imagined past Christendom inspired imperialist sins.
In its defence, the UK is working on self-propitiation by doing its bit in eradicating Christianity within its own borders. Sadly, the British government doesn’t truly have its heart in the effort since it hasn’t resorted to burning or raping Christians. Yet. Withholding aid to Africa will have to do in the meantime.
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Bishop Michael Bishop Nazir-Ali on Pakistan aid
From here:
A senior Christian leader has warned much of the aid flowing into Pakistan to help deal with massive flooding may never be used for relief.
Retired Anglican bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, a Pakistani national who has spent much of his life in Britain, is visiting Australia to discuss issues around Islam and its growth in the West.
“The misery that the (Pakistani) people are in has been caused, to some extent, by corruption and incompetence,” Bishop Nazir-Ali told reporters in Canberra on Monday.
Much of Western aid to third world nations seems to be used to prop up corrupt and despotic regimes. Short of a civilising colonial incursion, there probably isn’t a solution and, as Malcolm Muggeridge used to say, Western aid tends to earn its givers the undying contempt of the recipients.