The anti-Islam hysteria that seems to affect a small but highly vocal constituency in the US is not a new phenomenon. In the 19th century, the hysteria was directed toward Catholics, stimulated by the massive inflow of Irish and Italian immigrants into the US. The sentiment crystallized into the Know Nothing Party which actually ran candidates for President and won several local offices in the northeast. The Ku Klux Klan also ran hate campaigns against Catholics (and Jews) in the 1920s (in addition to its ongoing hate campaigns against blacks). The US Congress also passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 in response to the growing number of Chinese coming into the US to work in the American West.
One of the most wanted individuals responsible for the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, has finally been arrested. He was residing in Congo with a $5 million bounty on his head. He was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Ntaganzwa was the mayor of Nyakizu and orchestrated the killing of nearly 20,000 Tutsi. Rwanda has started extradition proceedings to bring him to trial in Rwanda.
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk was giving a speech to the Ukrainian Parliament when he was assaulted by Oleg Barna, a member of the opposition party. The brawl is merely one index of the fragility of the Ukrainian political system as it is wracked by Russian-inspired turmoil in the east and by a deteriorating economy.
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