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Red-Green Alliance
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The world is changing before our eyes. Five years ago the anti-Israel movement may have been marginal. Now it is growing into a problem. Until now boycott organizers had been on the far left. They have a new ally: Islamic organizations that have strengthened greatly throughout Europe in the past two decades. The upshot is a red and green alliance with a significant power base. The red side has a name for championing human rights, while the green side has money. Their union is what led to the success of the Turkish flotilla.

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"The wall between you and the violence"

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In a capital that pulses with the sounds of war, Mogadishu's Radio Xurmo was an oasis. Haunting Somali love songs and melodic nationalist tunes that evoked Somalia's lost glory filled the airwaves. "Now, the songs have vanished," said news anchor Yasmin Mayo Mohammed. The hard-line Islamist militia, Hezb-i-Islami, ordered stations in Mogadishu to stop playing music, declaring it un-Islamic. Radio Xurmo complied; the Islamists have killed Somali journalists for less cause.

In Somalia's oral culture, music has shaped society for centuries. Singers crooned about family values, ancient rituals, and past empires. Collectively, music helped forge a national identity in a region dominated by clans. "It is a source of oxygen, as important to us as the water we drink," said Mohamed Hassan Haad, a senior figure in the powerful Hawiye clan. "It makes you feel life is still okay," said hotel waiter Mohammed Aden Ahmed. "It is the wall between you and the violence."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050405123.html

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