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Modern piracy rooted in poverty and war
Published: 28 September, 2009, 08:32
Edited: 26 October, 2010, 07:42
Pirates off the coast of Somalia are still a major threat to commercial shipping despite a large-scale international military effort to net them. Thirty-one international warships are now patrolling the Gulf of Aden.
There is no way to truly solve this problem without looking at the causes. I can't understand why my countrymen get so upset over suicidal teens in US while ignoring hundreds of thousands of mentally ill and homeless and full prisons. I suspect the same blindness in regards to piracy. Why doesn't the media sensationalize the poverty that causes the piracy? why don't they cover the reasons Somali government collapsed and the lack of world concern? We are one species, one planet, and the same emotional value and respect given to the tragedy of a suicidal teen here should also be given the difficulties faced by people of Somalia and to the mentally ill here in the US. It is all connected. We need to re-member ourselves together. Once race, one people. The Human Race. Let's feel it and then act on it.
Only the terminally ignorant make the criminals into victims.
islamists first attacked christian lands upon the directives of mohammad, raping, taking slaves and extracting taxes from anyone not converting to islam. within 3 centuries berber muslim pirates along the north african coast were raiding the coastal towns of southern europe, taking away 1.5 million christians as slaves. american merchant ships were also attacked and captured with crew members taken as slaves- just shortly after american independence and before the u.s. even had a navy! so much for muslim claim s that israel and america started all the troubles
Yemen's Foreign Minister, Dr. Abu-Bakr al-Qerbi is absolutely correct; as the origins of the problem are political so ought be it's resoluion. In whose interest is it that 'those Somalis', need sorting out?