{"id":27690,"date":"2011-11-28T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27690"},"modified":"2011-11-28T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:36:41","slug":"reality-give-idealism-the-finger-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27690","title":{"rendered":"Reality gives idealism the finger yet again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that you have seen videos on your local TV stations that call for donations to help stop the famine in Somalia? That brought in celebrity speakers to endorse the program. There was even a catchy abbreviation too. But looks like that this will be futile since the militant groups are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/africa\/somali-militants-ban-16-aid-groups-and-un-agencies-in-south-somalia-after-year-long-review\/2011\/11\/28\/gIQA3jLT4N_story.html\">preventing aid and aide groups from working. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MOGADISHU, Somalia \u2014 The Somali militant group al-Shabab on Monday banned 16 aid groups \u2014 including a half dozen U.N. agencies \u2014 from central and southern Somalia, a decision likely to harm Somalis already suffering from drought and famine.<\/p>\n<p>The banning of the aid groups falls in line with the group\u2019s skeptical view of the outside world, but will worsen the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of Somalis who have come to depend on aid in the Horn of Africa country\u2019s worst famine since 1991-92.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh don&#8217;t worry since talking to the leaders of these groups will sort this out wiht a heart to heart discussion. Then know what the true priorities are during this crisis are right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al-Shabab accused the 16 aid groups of disseminating information on the activities of Muslims and militant fighters, financing, aiding and abetting \u201csubversive\u201d groups seeking to destroy the basic tenants of the Islamic penal system, and of \u201cpersistently galvanizing the local population\u201d against the full establishment of Shariah law, a harsh and punitive interpretation of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab carries out amputations, stonings and beheadings as punishment. The group also frequently recruits child fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Because of its policies limiting the work of aid groups in its territory \u2014 especially the work of the World Food Program \u2014 areas under its control were declared famine zones by the U.N. in July. Some of those famine declarations have since been downgraded, but the U.N. says 250,000 still face the immediate risk of starvation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, so send in that money because it is getting better and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trust.org\/alertnet\/news\/al-shabaab-bans-some-aid-groups-in-somalia-loot-offices\"> better. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that you have seen videos on your local TV stations that call for &hellip; <a title=\"Reality gives idealism the finger yet again.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27690\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reality gives idealism the finger yet again.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}