Blog Post #5 - U.S, Ambassador safe after Syrian Attack

Robert Ford , a U.S. ambassador was safe Thursday after being attacked by a pro-government group. An official reported that it was an attack by an armed mob but he is OK. Ford has always been outspoken against the Syrian government and their use of violence against protestors and has been seen as more of an activist than a diplomat. In July when he traveled to the restive city of Hama to express support for demonstrators, he sparked a diplomatic firestorm. He was gracefully welcomed with open arms. A crowd tried to assault Ford and embassy colleagues. The mob was violent and it tried, unsuccessfully, to attack but only seriously damaged the vehicles. At the time of the attack, Ford was visiting Hassan Abdul Azim, head of the opposition Arab Socialist Democratic Union. A crowd begin to gather and chant loudly, the crowd protested rowdily for more than two hours.

This goes to show you that no one, not even U.S. ambassadors are safe from religious attacks. During a meeting that they had Azim explained to Ford that his party doesn't want outside intervention in Syria's unrest, but it does want freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence among all religious groups. That is truly necessary to a country. People should feel safe in the religion they're in knowing that they have the right to believe in what they want to believe in and not have to worry about being attacked or killed. The Muslims are the main ones that cause all the problems because they want everyone to believe in their religion, but everyone is entitled to the right to pick their religion and stuck with it. 'Religious Bullying' has to stop and everyone needs to be accepted for who and what they are. We are all one people, no matter what religion we decide confide in.


http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/29/world/meast/syria-us-ambassador/index.html?iref=allsearch

Blog Post #1-Religious Division

In Jos, Nigeria Muslims brutally murdered a Christian family of 8 on Sunday. This only continues a week long torture of violence that has the two religious groups against each other and the civilians around them. More than 40 people have been killed just this week in this battle between Christian and Muslim faiths. It started on Monday when Christian youths attacked some Muslims as they were celebrating the end of one of their holidays called Ramadan. Yiljap Abraham, a plateau state spokesman, took some journalists in a village named Tatu where 8 bodies lay from the attack. That Sundayin another village called Rioym, a bomb was planted in a marketplace. Luckily, the bomb didn't go off because the battery in the bomb had run flat. The plateau is straddled in between the two which is called the 'Middle Belt' Muslim faith in the north and Christianity in the south. On Saturday at least four by-standers were killed, one including a soldier when the chaos was going on between the youth.

The continent of Africa is no stranger to religious division. Because of the different religions that are practiced in Africa, this is expected to happen. The question is what can be done to stop violent acts of crimes against families that believe what they want to believe? Every person has the right to worship who or what they want to worship, so should they be brutalized, beaten, and possibly murdered for their beliefs? They shouldn't but not all countries believe in this. If a certain religion is not believed in, war is raged among the land. There may be to nothing to do about this scenario now, but if something can be done to separate the two religions maybe all of the violence and chaos can come to a slow end. Anything is better than seeing families being slain in cold blood for something they've been taught since birth and continue to practice and pass on to others for generations to come. Everyone person is entitled to believe in what they believe in, so why get murdered for it?

http://wwrn.org/articles/36091/?place=nigeria