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Doings of the Land of Egypt Watch

Ok, we get the part about not liking George W. Bush. What we can't figure out is why so many of our friends on the progressive left think they're going to get a better deal if the war against Islamofascism is lost and the mullahs take over.
Consider this item from al-Associated Press:

Egypt Steps Up HIV Arrests
Feb 15, 6:58 PM (ET) By KATARINA KRATOVAC

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian police have stepped up arrests of persons suspected of having HIV, detaining four men this month in a crackdown that violates basic human rights, two international rights groups said Friday.
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Police denied making any HIV-related arrests but one police official speaking on condition of anonymity said there is a campaign to get persons registered in hospital records as HIV-positive into treatment in "special clinics." The official said he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The latest arrests bring to eight the number of HIV suspects in detention.
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The police official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that police recently rounded up four men and sent them to "precautionary hospital detention" for treatment. He declined to elaborate.

The whole thing lives here.
The effort to clamp down on homosexuality is a relatively recent development in Egypt, where Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, two Overseers of the Manicurists from the Fifth Dynasty, felt comfortable enough in their relationship to memorialize it on their tomb walls. And, while the Bible contains no explicit prohibition of sexual relations between women, tradition banned lesbianism as "the doings of the land of Egypt".
One thing strikes us as remarkable about this latest human rights abuse on the part of the heirs of the pharoahs. The CIA says about 80,335,036 people were living in Egypt in July of last year, and we tend to believe them, since they've done such a great job in the past. Out of that number, one would think that the authorities would be able to find more than four men to lock up.

Full post as published by West Neanderthal Drive on February 17, 2008 (boomark / email).