European governments, companies and banks simply did not share the U.S. view that Moscow should be penalized for its sponsorship of repressive martial law in Poland (and near Soviet invasion) in the early 1980's, but instead should be de facto rewarded with the largest single Western taxpayer-subsidized transaction in the history of East-West trade.
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Let's be clear: The Islamists are trying to establish a kind of Catch-22: If you point out that they seek to impose a barbaric, repressive and seditious Shariah Law, you are insulting their faith and engaging in unwarranted, racist and bigoted fear-mongering.
The three Muslim clerics are, respectively, the director of a Jamaica Muslim Center Koranic Memorization School in Queens, the deputy Amir (leader) of Majlis Ash Shura (a group that advocates the repressive theocratic code known as Shari'a Law) and New York University's imam, who forced the NYU administration not to display the Danish editorial cartoons of Mohammed that Islamofascists used to foment violence around the world.
Our correspondent says that one of the few unduly repressive measures that continues to remain in place is an electronics law which restricts email access and which was widely used by the military government to silence dissenting voices.
"If passed in the current form, the draft law will essentially replace Burma's old censorship regime with a similarly repressive new one, " said Shawn Crispin, Southeast Asia representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Today, it is the law of the land in Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, three of the most repressive regimes in the world, all of which have extensive ties to jihadist terrorism.
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It is the law of the land in Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia three of the most repressive regimes in the world, all of which have extensive ties to jihadist terrorism.
Jacques Maheasa, a representative of the Socialists, said the law would not make any contribution to fighting juvenile delinquency as the thinking behind it was "excessively repressive".
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