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19. US report on religions targets usual suspects
Date of source: Wednesday, October 20, 1999
The US State Department announced on October 6 that China, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar (Burma), and Sudan were liable for diplomatic and economic sanctions for engaging in "particularly severe violations of religious freedom during the preceding 12 months."
27. US judges the world’s tolerance
Date of source: Friday, September 24, 1999
The Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which criticizes several Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, is the result of the Religious Freedom Act sponsored by right-wing members of the US Congress in 1998 in what some observers say was a capitulation to fundamentalist Christians...
59. Society struggles with rising divorce
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 1999
The number of divorces in Egypt is on the rise according to a Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) study reported in the Egyptian opposition daily Al Wafd. While there were 67,000 divorce cases filed in 1990, by 1997 that number had jumped to 71,000. Last year the number...
3. Smooth Maghrebi power transition as Hassan dies
Date of source: Thursday, July 29, 1999 to Wednesday, August 4, 1999
The late King Hassan II actively used religious symbols, to shape himself into the ultimate father figure in the country and outflank his Islamist opposition. Morocco kept relatively free of the fundamentalist problems that have plagued its neighbors. It remains to be seen if the young King...
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