Pertaining to Mauritania, India and Pakistan...and Germany, Canada and New Zealand...
[Apologies for any lack of overall coherence within this blogpost (as per Sunday's), but time, as they say, waits for no-one...]
#Congrats to the Mauritanian Supreme Court or Court of Appeal for releasing a longserving prisoner convicted on blasphemy accusations, though he's now evidently in his very senior years...-similar to the Pakistani lady (Ayleen? Noriya?) whose name I've presently forgotten...and hopefully the LORD above will protect him from the vigilante justice doubtless so often meted out upon the same either prior to (trumped-up) conviction or following hard-fought-for and eventual release...
#Congrats to India for awhile ago (within recent weeks) voting to ban the easy divorce provisions allowed for amongst its (presumably most) fundamentalist (subset of its) Muslim population...though evidently by only the narrowest of margins in its Upper House...-provisions which eerily recalled those with which Jesus was personally confronted by the various religious leaders and national rulers during His own briefly sojourn...folk only too prepared to utilize any and every possible religious expedient and pretext for effectively doing anything they actually wanted to do anyway...
#Naturally hoping - wishing - (and oughta be) prayin' - that the new standoff between India and (its one-time *'massive geographical province') Pakistan, over the disputed Indian region of Kashmir - is settled and settled quick. But I agree with kiwi academic Al Gillespie that India indeed has every (legal) right to do **'whatever it wants' within part of its own sovereign territory. However, as with the eventual outworking of Brexit - if it does indeed transpire - doing something you've 'every right to' can no doubt have many unforeseen and unintended consequences...
...and obviously a military conflict between these two nuclear weapon-possessing neighbours is not one anyone would really like to contemplate...
*For want of a suitable term, words - as ever - completely failing me once again...
**Obviously 'within reason', and no, those weren't his precise words as such...
Part Two: Germany - Canada - New Zealand (coming your way soon)
[Apologies for any lack of overall coherence within this blogpost (as per Sunday's), but time, as they say, waits for no-one...]
#Congrats to the Mauritanian Supreme Court or Court of Appeal for releasing a longserving prisoner convicted on blasphemy accusations, though he's now evidently in his very senior years...-similar to the Pakistani lady (Ayleen? Noriya?) whose name I've presently forgotten...and hopefully the LORD above will protect him from the vigilante justice doubtless so often meted out upon the same either prior to (trumped-up) conviction or following hard-fought-for and eventual release...
#Congrats to India for awhile ago (within recent weeks) voting to ban the easy divorce provisions allowed for amongst its (presumably most) fundamentalist (subset of its) Muslim population...though evidently by only the narrowest of margins in its Upper House...-provisions which eerily recalled those with which Jesus was personally confronted by the various religious leaders and national rulers during His own briefly sojourn...folk only too prepared to utilize any and every possible religious expedient and pretext for effectively doing anything they actually wanted to do anyway...
#Naturally hoping - wishing - (and oughta be) prayin' - that the new standoff between India and (its one-time *'massive geographical province') Pakistan, over the disputed Indian region of Kashmir - is settled and settled quick. But I agree with kiwi academic Al Gillespie that India indeed has every (legal) right to do **'whatever it wants' within part of its own sovereign territory. However, as with the eventual outworking of Brexit - if it does indeed transpire - doing something you've 'every right to' can no doubt have many unforeseen and unintended consequences...
...and obviously a military conflict between these two nuclear weapon-possessing neighbours is not one anyone would really like to contemplate...
*For want of a suitable term, words - as ever - completely failing me once again...
**Obviously 'within reason', and no, those weren't his precise words as such...
Part Two: Germany - Canada - New Zealand (coming your way soon)
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