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To: tejek who wrote (731675)

8/8/2013 12:00:26 PM

From: joseffy

Respond to of 1575608

British teens targeted in Zanzibar acid attack
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DAR ES SALAAM — Reuters Thursday, Aug. 08 2013,
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Men riding a motorbike threw acid at two British teenage girls in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar region, leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries, a senior police official said on Thursday.The pair, both 18 and from England’s northern city of Manchester according to police in the Indian Ocean archipelago, were flown to Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

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They had been volunteering at a local school in Zanzibar, an island that is popular with international tourists but has suffered a wave of deadly protests last year as supporters of an Islamist group repeatedly clashed with the police.

Britain is concerned about Wednesday’s attack and is “in contact with the Tanzanian authorities”, the Foreign Office said in a statement.

The police described the attack as “an isolated incident”, refusing to link it to rising religious tension on the island between majority Muslims and its Christian population.

“The attackers approached the girls as they were walking on a street at around 7:15 p.m. and threw acid at them,” Zanzibar Urban West regional police commander Mkadam Khamis Mkadam told Reuters. “The incident occurred when the streets were deserted as most people were breaking their Ramadan fast.”

Television images showed one girl obviously in pain in the back of a car at the Zanzibar airport.

“The victims sustained facial, chest and back injuries from the acid attack,” Mkadam said.

The Britons were expected to fly home on Thursday.

The attack comes during the tourist season in the historic town and after a Zanzibar Muslim leader, Sheikh Fadhil Suleiman Soraga, was hospitalized with acid burns in a November attack.

Two Christian leaders were killed early this year in separate attacks.

A separatist group in Zanzibar, Uamsho (Awakening), is pushing for the archipelago to exit from its 1964 union with mainland Tanzania, which is ruled as a secular country. Uamsho wants to introduce Islamic Sharia law in Zanzibar.

Supporters of the group have engaged in running street battles with the police in the past, but authorities have not linked the group with the attacks on Christian clerics.

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To: tejek who wrote (731675)	8/8/2013 12:04:47 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575608

For a renowned “orator,” President You Didn’t Build That sure sounds like a nitwit a lot of the time.

To: tejek who wrote (731675)	8/8/2013 12:26:54 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575608

Christians in Egypt under siege as Islamists blame them for coup

To: tejek who wrote (731675)	8/8/2013 1:25:08 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By simplicity Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575608

>> You bring up all this crap about the teachers' unions but why don't they get paid a salary commensurate with their educational attainment? They are vastly overpaid for their "educational attainment". Let's be realistic; Many, if not most, Education majors are people who really couldn't handle a real major in college. That's not to say that no Education major excels at his/her education; university students tend to get out of a program what they put into it. But most are under-achievers. >> maybe the reason the brightest are not attracted is because the pay sucks. How can you say "the pay sucks"? Even in Arkansas, which you claim is one of the poorest in the nation, salary is $61K annualized, and that is for 7 hour work days with TONS of time off. Add on benefits, and you're getting up in the 80s easily. You can get a degree in Education by just showing up. How is that not overpaying? >> Teachers have to meet them or they get fired. This is total bullshit. In NYC, between 2007-2010, a total of 88 teachers (out of 80,000) lost their jobs for lousy performance -- that is less that 4/100ths of a percentage point per year. Are you fucking kidding me? In these horrible school districts, it takes an act of Congress to fire a bad teacher. >> You keep saying that but my personal experience is that bad teachers do get fired. The facts, hard numbers, do not coincide with your personal experience.

To: tejek who wrote (731675)	8/8/2013 2:00:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By simplicity TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575608

Ted, You keep saying that but my personal experience is that bad teachers do get fired. Two teachers got fired at the school where I did my student teaching at the end of the semester. What did they fired for, and how many years of experience did they have teaching? Based on my limited observations, teachers do get fired, but not for performance. They get fired because of budget cuts, and because the unions choose the least experienced teachers to get fired first. Even a "Teacher of the Year" in southern California (forgot whether it was LA or OC) got a pink slip. Tenchusatsu