Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 25. november 2004 / Timeline November 25, 2004
Version 3.524. November 2004, 26. November 2004
11/25/2004
Den internationale dag for afskaffelse af vold mod kvinder.
11/25/2004
Folketinget stemmer for krigsforlængelse
Folketinget vedtager beslutningsforslag om 'fortsat dansk bidrag
til den multinationale sikringsstyrke i Irak'.
Ulla Røder
og fire andre protesterer i Folketinget mod forlængelsen af
de danske styrkers ophold i Irak. Efterfølgende sigtes de af
statsadvokaten for overtrædelse af straffelovens § 137,
stk 2 ved 'i forening og efter forudgående aftale ved larm
eller uorden at have forstyrret en offentlig samling i
Folketinget'... Retssag er fastsat til 10. juli 2005. Dommen i
Byrettes afsiges 2. november
2005.
11/25/2004
Folketinget vedtager beslutningsforslag om 'udvidelse af det danske
bidrag til den internationale sikkerhedsstyrke ISAF i
Afghanistan'.
11/25/2004
NEW STUDY BY HARVARD PROFESSOR FINDS:
POVERTY IS NOT THE CAUSE OF TERRORISM
NEW YORK - A new study by a Harvard University professor has found
that terrorism is not caused by poverty - thus further undermining
the main premise behind international aid to the Palestinian
Arabs.
The Harvard University Gazette reports that Alberto Abadie,
associate professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of
Government, "examined data on terrorism and variables such as
wealth, political freedom, geography, and ethnic fractionalization
for nations that have been targets of terrorist attacks ... Before
analyzing the data, Abadie believed it was a reasonable assumption
that terrorism has its roots in poverty, especially since studies
have linked civil war to economic factors. However, once the data
was corrected for the influence of other factors studied, Abadie
said he found no significant relationship between a nation's wealth
and the level of terrorism it experiences... (New York Sun, Nov.10,
2994)
Palestinian Arab journalist Khalid Amayreh has likewise written
that it "is simply nonsense" to "claim that Islamic terrorism in
Israel, as elsewhere, is the product of poverty, backwardness, and
ignorance ... Islamic fundamentalism is not a product or by-product
of poverty. Several studies have shown that a substantial majority
of Islamists and their supporters come from the middle and upper
socio-economic strata ... The fact that city-dwellers [in
Judea-Samaria], who are generally more educated and better off
economically, have consistently lent more support to Islamists
refutes the widely held assumption that Islamist popularity thrives
on economic misery." (Jerusalem Post, Feb. 21, 1995), writes
IMRA.
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