After not hearing much about the unrest in the Middle East, specifically Libya, some news has come from two other countries—Syria and Yemen. Both are undergoing violent opposition to the government and equally if not more violent suppression by the respective countries governments. Yemen experienced the worst of it as the government’s military continues to experience the defection of senior military leaders. The latest attack was a result of attempting to suppress a military leader from supposedly defecting. In Syria government forces shot into crowds of protesters, and ended up killing an eleven year old girl.
Still more violence in the Middle East it seems…I highly doubt it’s going to be done until better governments are put into place. Simple as that. The only problem is a lot of people want a government that bases its laws off of the Muslim religion and its holy book the Quran. This would result in a society where women are suppressed, not even allowed to leave the house without head covering and certainly not entitled to an education beyond what they need to function as good housewives. This is something many Americans do not understand because they did not grow up in Muslim society, while they need to exercise their cultural relativism, I understand people wanting equality for women in Muslim societies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43234473/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
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