tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242073142024-03-14T12:02:51.199+07:00BCFASBatak Center for American StudiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-47545295972437148162020-07-31T20:32:00.001+07:002020-07-31T20:32:54.376+07:00Muslim Families Keeping Eid Al-Adha Traditions Alive in the US<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>For Arabs and Muslims living in the United States, this Eid Al-Adha marks another holy day that must be celebrated at home. </div><div><br></div><div>But for some families, this gives parents the opportunity to use crafts and activities to keep their children entertained and teach them about their cultural heritage.</div><div><br></div><div>Arab News spoke with Nour Tonbakji to find out how her family held on to Eid Al-Adha traditions while living in Los Angeles.</div><div><br></div><div>“The hardest thing about alienation is getting away from family and the feeling of loneliness and missing the atmosphere and the warmth of your own country and the beautiful gatherings,” Tonbakji told us.</div><div><br></div><div>An expert in handicrafts, Tonbakji used crafting as a way to engage her children and connecting them to their heritage.</div><div><br></div><div>“Whenever I have any religious event or a point that I’d like to highlight to my kids, I try to use social media to find things I can print that can support the action I have in mind,” she said. “So we do lanterns and crescent in Ramadan, during Eid Al-Fitr we do decorations & we do coloring or now in Eid Al-Adha we decorate sheep and a model for Kaaba.”</div><div><br></div><div>Families like the Tonbakjis are also sharing their traditions with their new neighbors. And during the coronavirus pandemic even small gestures are going a long way toward building a community.</div><div><br></div><div>“Kids share in everything of course so that they feel the happiness and that there is an occasion happening now and we do the same thing during Ramadan or during any occasion that relates to us,” said Tonbakji. </div><div><br></div><div>“We usually prepare small bags gifts that include delicious meals and gifts and we distribute them to the neighbors and we tell them that we are passing through a religious event that’s related to us and we add a small card that explains the event.”</div><div><br></div><div>With Ramadan and now Adha overlapping with the pandemic, the Muslim community has faced exceptional circumstances this year. But the safety of the people remains the most important, as Eid will come again next year with better conditions.</div><div><br></div><div> <b><u><a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1712261/food-health">Read more</a></u></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-43993851774082245132019-07-03T07:09:00.000+07:002019-07-03T07:09:12.654+07:00Korut Puji Pertemuan Bersejarah Kim Jong-Un dan Trump<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Korea Utara (Korut) memuji pertemuan antara pemimpin mereka, Kim Jong-Un, dengan Presiden Amerika Serikat (AS) Donald Trump di Zona Demiliterisasi (DMZ) yang memisahkan Korut dan Korea Selatan (Korsel). Korut menyebutnya sebagai pertemuan 'bersejarah'.<br />
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Seperti dilansir AFP, Senin (1/7/2019), kantor berita resmi Korut, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), dalam laporannya menyebut bahwa kedua pemimpin dalam pertemuan itu sepakat 'melanjutkan dan mendorong dialog produktif untuk membuat terobosan baru dalam denuklirisasi Semenanjung Korea'.<br />
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Diketahui bahwa Kim Jong-Un dan Trump bertemu pada Minggu (30/6) waktu setempat setelah Trump melontarkan undangan via Twitter sehari sebelumnya, atau pada Sabtu (29/6) waktu setempat. Keduanya bertemu di DMZ yang selama 66 tahun memisahkan Korut dan Korsel sejak berakhirnya Perang Korea.<br />
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Kim Jong-Un dan Trump saling berjabat tangan di area yang memisahkan Korut dan Korsel itu, sebelum Trump akhirnya menginjakkan kaki ke dalam wilayah Korut. Trump mencetak sejarah sebagai Presiden AS pertama yang menginjakkan kaki ke wilayah Korut.<br />
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"Para pemimpin tertinggi DPRK (Korut) dan AS saling bertukar jabat tangan bersejarah di Panmunjom," sebut KCNA dalam artikelnya. "Peristiwa yang luar biasa," imbuh KCNA.<br />
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Lebih lanjut, KCNA menyebut Panmunjom yang merupakan desa gencatan senjata antara Korut dan Korsel sebagai 'tempat yang dikenal sebagai simbol pemisahan'. Disebutkan oleh KCNA bahwa pertemuan itu terjadi 'atas usulan Trump'.<br />
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Trump sebelumnya menyebut dalam pertemuan itu dirinya dan Kim Jong-Un sepakat melanjutkan pembicaraan soal program nuklir Korut, beberapa pekan ke depan.<br />
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Baca juga: Trump dan Kim Jong Un Sepakat Bentuk Tim Khusus Bahas Nuklir Korut<br />
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Pertemuan impromptu di DMZ ini dinilai penuh simbol. Langkah bersejarah Trump dengan menginjakkan kaki ke wilayah Korut -- yang disebutnya tidak pasti hingga saat terakhir, menjadi kelanjutan luar biasa dari pertemuan pertama antara Kim Jong-Un dengan Presiden Korsel Moon Jae-In tahun lalu. Saat itu, Kim Jong-Un mengundang Moon untuk berjalan melangkahi Garis Demarkasi Militer, sebutan resmi perbatasan Korut dan Korsel.<br />
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"Sungguh menjadi sebuah kehormatan bahwa Anda meminta saya untuk melangkahi garis itu, dan saya bangga bisa melangkahi garis itu," ucap Trump kepada Kim Jong-Un dalam pertemuan itu.<br />
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KCNA sendiri menyebutnya sebagai 'momen bersejarah' dan menjadikannya sebagai 'yang pertama dalam sejarah' seorang Presiden AS yang masih menjabat menginjakkan kaki ke wilayah Korut.<br />
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Gambar-gambar pertemuan Kim Jong-Un dan Trump -- termasuk foto-foto keduanya muncul dari sisi berbeda untuk berjabat tangan dan melangkahi perbatasan -- dipajang sebagai sampul surat kabar Korut, Rodong Sinmun. Total ada 35 foto yang dipublikasikan surat kabar resmi Korut tersebut.<br />
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Analis dari Asan Institute of Policy Studies, Shin Beom-Chul, menyebut laporan KCNA sebagai 'propaganda khas Korea Utara yang memuja Kim sebagai pemimpin perubahan besar dalam geopolitik'.<br />
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"Tujuannya adalah memulihkan status tercoreng Kim setelah dia kembali dengan tangan kosong dari pertemuan puncak di Hanoi," ujar Shin merujuk pada pertemuan kedua Kim Jong-Un dan Trump di Vietnam pada Februari lalu yang gagal mencapai kesepakatan.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-66185130430945051132019-05-30T13:35:00.002+07:002019-05-30T13:35:51.323+07:00US is Waging a Tech War against this Shenzhen District<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Every lunchtime hundreds of young Chinese tech workers spill out of their offices onto streets in the Yue Hai district of Shenzhen, eager to grab tables before restaurants fill up.<br />
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The area – home to some of China’s biggest names in technology, including social media giant Tencent, telecoms maker ZTE and drone giant DJI – is often called China’s Silicon Valley.<br />
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Now, a joke that went viral online has put Yue Hai on the map amid the escalating US-China tech war.<br />
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“Rather than China, it seems the US government has started a tech war with Yue Hai. It is the district officer who should attend the negotiations with US President Donald Trump,” said the post, referring to the local government official in charge of administrative affairs in Yue Hai.<br />
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Streets and buildings in Yue Hai are tech-themed: Tencent’s original headquarters is located on Science and Research Road, while DJI is on High Tech Road, about half an hour’s walking distance away.<br />
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About a 30-minute drive from Yue Hai is the corporate headquarters of Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecoms giant at the epicentre of the latest escalation in the tech war after Trump banned it from buying US technology without Washington’s approval.<br />
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DJI, which is building a new headquarters designed by the architectural firm behind Apple Park in Silicon Valley, provides nearly 80 per cent of the drones used in the US and Canada. Without naming DJI, the US Department of Homeland Security recently warned American companies about the security risks posed by Chinese-made drones.<br />
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One Yue Hai district company that has so far avoided the heat in the tech war is Tencent, operator of social media platform WeChat, whose CEO Pony Ma Huateng brought up the viral joke in remarks at a Shenzhen tech summit over the weekend. “It was widely circulated on the internet,” Ma noted.<br />
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In the span of four decades, Shenzhen, which became China’s first special economic zone after it was opened up to capitalism and foreign investment in 1979, has grown from a fishing village of 30,000 people to a sprawling manufacturing and innovation megacity of more than 13 million.<br />
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As well as big names like ZTE, DJI and Tencent, Yue Hai is home to dozens of China’s national hi-tech and research centres as well as nationally known tech companies such as Shenzhen Dazu Laser Technology and the Kingdee Software Group.<br />
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Now Shenzhen has been caught in the crossfire of a tech war because China’s most advanced technologies, from artificial intelligence to drones and robotics, are being developed in the area. “The [Yue Hai] hi-tech area has a very special position, playing a key role in Shenzhen’s pursuit of tech innovation,” Tencent’s Ma said over the weekend.<br />
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During lunch hour in Yue Hai earlier this week, the South China Morning Post spoke with young scientists, engineers and programmers to get their take on the tech war. Those who agreed to speak did so on the condition their names and companies would not be used as they were not authorised to speak to media.<br />
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“It will be a no-win situation for the US and China,” an engineer said. “Huawei and China’s high-tech manufacturing will be heavily hit if the tech war continues. I don’t think the US has prepared well for a break with China. The conflict has come about from China’s ambitions of having its own technologies and that makes the US feel threatened.”<br />
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A programmer said that while Huawei and some tech hardware makers were at the centre of the storm, everyone would feel the negative impact if it continued. “There are no lay-offs in my company so far, but marketing strategies have changed and sales of some products have been hit,” he said.<br />
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Beijing most innovative city in China, finds JLL study<br />
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To ease the impact on the local tech economy, which accounts for 40 per cent of the city’s GDP, the Shenzhen government said it would cut individual annual income tax from as high as 45 per cent to 15 per cent for certain top overseas and local talent as it seeks to maintain its edge in innovation. Deputy mayor Wang Lixin said on Sunday the city would use its own operating income to make up for the shortfall in tax revenue.<br />
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After a US tech ban on ZTE in 2017, which was lifted after it paid a US$1.4 billion fine and agreed to US compliance on Iran sanctions, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged China to go all-in on scientific self-reliance. Those calls have grown louder since Huawei met a similar fate in being denied access to US technology.<br />
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“I think the US government’s behaviour is barbarous,” a programmer said. “I don’t think what Trump is doing is farsighted. The trend of globalisation cannot be reversed.”<br />
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Others were more sanguine. “Complaining or being angry cannot solve any problem,” a scientist said. “What we can do is develop our own technology. If not, China’s tech development will be restrained by the US forever.”<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-11877737532421500032018-12-11T04:06:00.001+07:002018-12-11T04:06:04.281+07:00Pembangunan Jalan Modal Utama AS Jadi Super Power<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Amerika Serikat saat ini harus diakui sudah menjadi negara maju yang ada di dunia. Tapi tidak banyak yang tahu, kerja keras Amerika untuk menjadi maju seperti saat ini bukan kerja satu atau dua tahun, namun ada gerakan besar yang dilakukan puluhan tahun silam.<br />
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Apa itu? Setelah perang dunia ke 2, Amerika mulai menatap masa baru, memiliki presiden baru dan mulai membangun peradaban yang kelak menjadi cikal bakal Amerika yang super power seperti saat ini.<br />
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Dia adalah Dwight Eisenhower, presiden ke 34 Amerika Serikat, yang menjadi pendobrak dan penggerak dalam pembangunan di Amerika Serikat.<br />
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Yang dilakukan Dwight Eisenhower atau akrab disapa Ike saat ia menjabat sebagai presiden adalah membangun jalan bebas hambatan, yang menembus setiap negara bagian di Amerika Serikat.<br />
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Pada tahun 1956, Kongres menyetujui pembangunan jaringan jalan raya nasional yang disebut Sistem Jalan Raya Antar Negara Bagian.<br />
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Jalan jalan raya yang ada di Amerika saat itu kata Eisenhower sudah ketinggalan jaman karena dibuat berdasar jalan setapak suku Indian, tanpa rencana yang menyeluruh.<br />
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“Jalan jalan yang ada dibuat untuk memenuhi keperluan lokal, dalam era trans-kontinental. Setiap tahun milyaran jam terbuang karena kemacetan lalu lintas, jalur yang harus dialihkan dan lain lain. Ini berarti pemborosan milyaran dolar,” katanya.<br />
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Presiden Eisenhower mengusulkan program pembangunan jalan raya bernilai 50 miliar dolar, selama 10 tahun.<br />
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Ada dua kejadian yang yang membuat Presiden Eisenhower kuat sekali untuk membuat jalan raya. Pertama, ketika Eisenhower memimpin pasukan Sekutu ke Jerman selama Perang Dunia 2, di mana ia menyaksikan sendiri jalan raya bebas hambatan Autobahn yang dibangun Hitler.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-9687004076288419422017-10-17T21:00:00.000+07:002017-10-17T21:00:10.370+07:00History: Canada's Dark Secret<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant "Canadian" culture. Over more than a century, tens of thousands of families were torn apart as children were kidnapped or forcibly removed from their homes<br />
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Residential schools were part of an extensive education system set up by the Canadian government and administered by churches with the objective of indoctrinating Aboriginal children into the Euro-Canadian and Christian way of life.<br />
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Bud Whiteye, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute Residential School, was "picked up" and taken to the school along with four other children as they walked along a public road to visit his grandmother.<br />
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"They didn't put us in a room and indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that," he explains. "It was in the routine of the place.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-54333360893056274022017-10-15T10:38:00.000+07:002017-10-17T11:26:05.652+07:00Mystery of Polynesian in America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- But did Polynesians land on South American beaches, or did Native Americans sail 3500 kilometers into the Pacific to reach Rapa Nui? “Our studies strongly suggest that Native Americans most probably arrived [on Rapa Nui] shortly after the Polynesians,” says team member Erik Thorsby, an immunologist at the University of Oslo. He thinks that could support the controversial theory, posited by Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl more than a half-century ago, that Native Americans had the skills to move west across the Pacific.<br />
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But many scientists say that Pacific currents and Polynesian mastery of the waves make it more likely that the Polynesians were the voyagers. They may have sailed to South America, swapped goods for sweet potatoes and other novelties—and returned to their island with South American women.<br />
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- One does not need to look closely to see the striking similarities between <b><a href="https://ancientexplorers.com/blogs/news/mayan-temple-in-java">ancient Maya</a></b> and certain <b><a href="http://cryptoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2016/03/5-similarities-between-ancient-mayans-and-indonesians.html">Indonesian temples.</a></b><br />
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How is it possible that these ancient structures are so alike if we assume ancient builders of each were completely unrelated to each other? Even more curious is the fact that ancient Sumerians appear to have visited <b><a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread669531/pg1">Asia and left some</a></b> of their legacy there.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.ancient-code.com/ancient-maya-construction-details-indonesian-temples/">The Sukuh temple</a></b> located in Berjo Village, Argoyoso district, in the slope of mount Lawu, Indonesia is decorated with wayang stone carvings of Hindu origin.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-21310638137575922312017-10-13T20:45:00.001+07:002017-10-13T20:45:38.936+07:00Indonesia Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was established on 1 June 2004 by Security Council resolution 1542. The UN mission succeeded a Multinational Interim Force (MIF) authorized by the Security Council in February 2004 after President Bertrand Aristide departed Haiti for exile in the aftermath of an armed conflict which spread to several cities across the country.<br />
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The devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010, which resulted in more than 220,000 deaths (according to Haitian Government figures), including 96 UN peacekeepers, delivered a severe blow to country's already shaky economy and infrastructure. The Security Council, by resolution 1908 of 19 January 2010, endorsed the Secretary-General's recommendation to increase the overall force levels of MINUSTAH to support the immediate recovery, reconstruction and stability efforts in the country.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-76014583360115521562017-10-13T19:30:00.000+07:002017-10-13T19:30:06.663+07:00Hawaii: How If North Korea Nuke You..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The email read: "In light of concerns about North Korea missile tests, state and federal agencies are providing information about nuclear threats and what to do in the unlikely event of a nuclear attack and radiation emergency."<br />
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The message was sent to 51,674 students and 10,606 faculty and staff in the university's system. Despite being in line with Hawaii state policy, the university was forced to apologise after sending the alarming email.<br />
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With less than 8,000 miles between them, the islands would theoretically be among the easiest US territories for North Korea to attack.<br />
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Experts believe a missile could reach Hawaiian shores in little more than 20 minutes and could easily kill as many as 15,000 people.<br />
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The University's director of communications Dan Meisenzahl, speaking to Hawaii News Now, said the email "could have been worded better".<br />
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He continued "I take full responsibility. The last thing I wanted to do was cause any unnecessary concern among our community."<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-36697980853455930892017-10-13T16:39:00.001+07:002017-10-13T18:39:35.514+07:00USAToday: Guam Groups Seek U.N. Help for Decolonization<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Petitioners representing Guam at the United Nations' 72nd General Assembly in New York strongly urged the U.N.'s Fourth Committee to hold the U.S. accountable for the delayed progress in Guam's path to self-determination.<br />
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Sixteen delegates from Guam and continental U.S. went before the committee, which has oversight on decolonization, and spoke of the injustices that resulted in Guam's status quo as an unincorporated U.S. territory.<br />
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"Our situation on Guam is urgent, as our land and ocean are increasingly under threat. Access and control of our resources is impeded by the delay in decolonization," Vice Speaker Therese Terlaje, D-Yona, said to committee chair Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño.<br />
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The delegates said collectively that the U.S. has taken little to no action to assist. Recent events, including two federal lawsuits and movement towards a new Marine Corps Base on Guam, have once again put a strain on the island's right to self-determination.<br />
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LisaLinda Natividad, member-at-large for the Guam Commission on Decolonization, said the people of Guam have come to the U.N. for four generations to make the same request, yet that request hasn't been fulfilled.<br />
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With Guam's current political climate, Natividad said it is crucial for the U.N. to use its influences to force engagement from the U.S. for Guam's decolonization. In unity, the delegates asked the U.N. to intervene and to conduct a visiting mission to Guam.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-68742184556467961662016-12-13T08:30:00.000+07:002016-12-13T08:30:25.904+07:00Foreign Involvement in US Elections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- President-elect Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election and will be the next president of the United States. As I have written before in these pages, the rules of the game for choosing our presidents need to be changed, but that discussion concerns future elections, not this past one. A win is a win.<br />
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That most people acknowledge Trump’s victory should now free us to have a serious discussion about the role of foreign interference in the 2016 presidential election. During the campaign, mentions of foreign meddling quickly became partisan and polarized, blocking any real examination of the facts, let alone a discussion of prescriptions. Even Obama administration officials seemed to tiptoe around these issues, not wanting to appear to use their privileged access to classified information to help the Democratic Party’s candidate, Hillary Clinton. But now the election is over.<br />
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Before the next one, we need to know the facts — investigate what did and did not occur — so that we can develop procedures, policies and laws to strengthen the integrity of our electoral process before 2020. This is not a partisan plea; it is a national security issue.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-53148633037602129412016-11-27T22:08:00.000+07:002016-11-27T22:30:06.856+07:00Fidel Castro’s Venezuela Obsession<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- On May 8, 1967, two small boats carrying a dozen heavily armed fighters made landfall near Machurucuto, a tiny fishing village 100 miles east of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. Their plan was to march inland and recruit Venezuelan peasants to the cause of socialist revolution.<br />
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The eight Venezuelans and four Cubans who took part in this mad adventure were on a mission from Fidel Castro. It was the heyday of Cuban agitation abroad, with Cuban-backed guerrilla cells spreading throughout Latin America.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-1177946647863318892016-11-27T22:05:00.000+07:002016-11-27T22:31:42.233+07:00Trump Portrays Clinton as a Hypocrite..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- President-elect Donald Trump is still railing against the Clinton campaign’s decision to participate in Green Party nominee Jill Stein’s call for a recount in Wisconsin.<br />
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Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, Trump used Hillary Clinton’s own words against her to suggest that his former campaign rival was hypocritical for implying that the election results might have been wrong.<br />
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“The Democrats, when they incorrectly thought they were going to win, asked that the election night tabulation be accepted. Not so anymore!<br />
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“Hillary Clinton conceded the election when she called me just prior to the victory speech and after the results were in. Nothing will change,” Trump wrote.<br />
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During the campaign, Trump complained repeatedly that the election was “rigged” against him, and refused to promise to accept the results if he lost during one of the general election debates.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-39253013907774865872016-07-30T18:17:00.003+07:002016-07-30T19:04:00.623+07:00Book: Indonesia Sailors Were in America before Columbus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The community are Minangkabauans and Achehness.<br />
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1: <b><a href="http://www.koranunik.com/2016/07/Hebat-Pelaut-Indonesia-Menemukan-Benua-Amerika-Sebelum-Ch-Columbus-ini-Bukti-Ceritanya.html">Koran Unik</a></b><br />
2. <b><a href="http://humbahas.blogspot.co.id/2016/07/pelaut-indonesia-temukan-benuka-amerika.html">Humbahas Times</a></b><br />
3. <b><a href="http://www.beritadekho.com/2016/07/tulis-ulang-sejarah-pelaut-aceh-dan.html">Berita Dekho</a></b><br />
4. <b><a href="http://repository.uinsu.ac.id/290/5/BAB%20II.pdf">Biography of author JOESOEF SOU’YB</a></b><br />
5. <b><a href="http://bcfos.blogspot.co.id/2016/07/sultan-of-papua-history-of-melanesian.html">The power of Sultanate of Tidore in Papua and Pacific Islands belongs to United State of America</a>.</b><br />
6<b>. <a href="https://afandriadya.com/2011/06/21/raja-minang-di-nusantara/">History of Minang Kings in Archipelagos</a></b><br />
7. <b><a href="http://www.hidayatullah.com/kajian/sejarah/read/2015/07/27/74618/500-tahun-islam-di-papua-dari-raja-ampat-hingga-sultan-papua-1.html">History of Islam in Papua and Pacifics, Aceh lines.</a></b><br />
8. <b><a href="http://humbahas.blogspot.co.id/2007/01/batak-dan-tanah-tuhan.html">Batak Sailors in ancient Egypt and America</a></b><br />
9. <b><a href="https://books.google.co.id/books?id=5Qf39DpguysC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=philippines+muslim+island+minang&source=bl&ots=18Ec_4QYXy&sig=l7oBV7LHpxoIhe3ss9xnHWNz3OA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0sZPnkZvOAhVLNY8KHc0aCeQQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=philippines%20muslim%20island%20minang&f=false">History of Minangs: Sultans, Shamans, and Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia</a></b><br />
10. Historically, Minangs had also settled outside West Sumatra, migrating as far as the south Philippines by the 14th century. Raja Bagindo was the leader of the forming polity in Sulu, Philippines, which later turned into the Sultanate of Sulu. The Minangkabaus migrated to the Malay peninsula in the 14th century and began to take control of the local politics. In 1773 Raja Melewar was appointed the first head of state of Negeri Sembilan.<br />
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Notable people of Minangkabau descent outside of Indonesia include the first President of Singapore, Yusof Ishak; the first Supreme Head of State (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) of the Federation of Malaya, Tuanku Abdul Rahman; Zubir Said, who composed Majulah Singapura (the national anthem of Singapore); World War II hero, Lieutenant Adnan Bin Saidi; the language expert Zainal Abidin Ahmad, member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, Rustam Effendi; Ahmad Khatib, the imam (head) of the Shafi'i school of law at Masjid al-Haram; and Khatib's grandson Fouad Abdulhameed Alkhateeb as Saudi Arabian ambassador. (<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minangkabau_people">wikipedia</a></b>)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-30859115591809608072016-07-24T03:15:00.002+07:002016-07-24T03:15:24.261+07:00Desert in Amazonia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The pesindhèn may sing together with a gerong (male chorus), but their styles and words will be different. The part of the sindhen is largely improvised within strict parameters (similar to instrumental cengkok). The sindhen is also allowed a much freer rhythm, similar to the rebab and suling, instead of the strict rhythm of the gerong.<br />
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Dangdut (pronounced /dɑːŋ. ˈduːt/) is a genre of Indonesian folk and traditional popular music that is partly derived from Hindustani, Malay, and Arabic music.<br />
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Javanese Surinamese are an ethnic group of Javanese descent in Suriname.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-66129630913854000422016-07-22T06:15:00.000+07:002016-07-22T19:43:57.969+07:00Caucasoids Surpass Mongoloids in Number Only in a Century<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- In 1881, the Mongoloid race, using a broad definition which included both Malays and indigenous Americans, was the most populous race on Earth, and it was still the most populous race on Earth in the year 1892, using a narrow definition which did not include either the "Malayan" or the "American" races.<br />
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In 1994, the Mongoloid race, using a broad definition which included indigenous Americans, comprised 34% of the Earth's human population which made it the second most populous race behind Caucasoids who comprised 56% of the Earth's human population at that time.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-15910298352387980092016-07-22T06:09:00.000+07:002016-12-13T01:52:25.251+07:00Native American DNA Reveals They are Descended from Asia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Scientists studying Native American populations see no cultural or genetic connection between Old and New World populations. There is a broad consensus view among archaeologists, geologists and biologists, based on more than a century of excavating thousands of archaeological sites, that the New World was first populated at least fifteen thousand years ago, and possibly as early as twenty thousand years ago, by Asian.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24207314.post-10856137248698631952016-07-22T05:36:00.001+07:002016-12-13T01:53:22.929+07:00Asian Genetic in Amazon Tribes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- A number of natives of the Amazon rainforest may partly descend from peoples in the Pacific, researchers say.<br />
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It remains a mystery as to when and how this genetic signature from an Australasia group in the Pacific they call "Population Y" made its way to the Amazon, scientists added.<br />
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Most genetic studies have suggested that all Native Americans analyzed to date can trace much or all of their ancestry to a single common origin — a population from Eurasia that probably migrated to the Americas more than 15,000 years ago, back when lower sea levels exposed the Bering land bridge known as Beringia that connected the continents. Some Native Americans from North America and the Arctic may also trace other parts of their ancestry to more recent waves of migration.<br />
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However, a number of prior studies of skull shapes hinted that two distinct groups entered the Americas. While one Asian type is similar to the vast majority of modern Native Americans, an earlier type seen in skeletons in Brazil and elsewhere resembled modern people from Australasia — a region that includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighboring Pacific Islands — and even some African groups. [In Photos: Human Skeleton Sheds Light on First Americans]<br />
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To shed light on this mystery, scientists analyzed the DNA of 30 Native American groups from Central and South America and from 197 non-American populations sampled worldwide.<br />
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The researchers found that some Native American groups from the Amazon rainforest — also known as Amazonia — derive a fraction of their ancestry from a population that is more closely related to the Onge from the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, New Guineans, Papuans and indigenous Australians than it is to present-day Eurasians or Native Americans.<br />
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"This finding was really surprising to us," said study lead author Pontus Skoglund, a population geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston. "Most genetic studies to date have basically found that all North and South Americans come from a single ancestral source population. That's not what we found — we found a more complicated scenario."<br />
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Present-day Native American populations from North and Central America seem to lack this genetic signature. The investigators propose that a group they call "Population Y" — named for Ypykuéra, which means "ancestor" in the Tupi language family spoken in Brazil — passed on this Australasian genetic signature to Amazonians. Population Y had already genetically intermingled with a lineage related to Native Americans by the time it reached Amazonia.<br />
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It remains uncertain when and how Population Y reached South America. "We cannot say much about the story of how this genetic link came about," Skoglund told Live Science. "This finding just raises more questions we need to answer about American history."<br />
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Still, the researchers do not believe this genetic signature came by boat in the last few thousand years. "We think intermingling happened earlier, potentially among the earliest colonizers of the Americas," Skoglund said. "They probably came over Beringia."<br />
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This finding is one of several recent genetic surprises suggesting links between Amazonia and the Pacific. In 2013, scientists in Brazil unexpectedly found Polynesian DNA in the bones of the Botocudo, now-extinct Native American hunter-gatherers who once lived in Brazil's interior. However, Skoglund noted the genetic signature in the Amazonians his team analyzed differed from what was seen in the Botocudo.<br />
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The researchers suggest analyzing DNA from ancient remains from across the Americas to help solve these mysteries. They detailed their findings online today (July 21) in the journal Nature.<br />
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<a href="http://bcfas.blogspot.com/"><b>BCFAS</b></a> -- Indigenous people that lived in southeastern Brazil in the late 1800s shared some genetic sequences with Polynesians, an analysis of their remains shows. The finding offers some support for the possibility that Pacific islanders traded with South America thousands of years ago, but researchers say that the distinctive DNA sequences, or haplogroups, may have entered the genomes of the native Brazilians through the slave trade during the nineteenth century.<br />
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Most scientists agree that humans arrived in the Americas between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago, probably via the Bering land bridge linking northeastern Asia with what is now Alaska. But the precise timing and the number of ‘migration waves’ is unclear, owing largely to variations in early Americans’ physical features, says Sérgio Pena, a molecular geneticist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.<br />
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By 1887, it is estimated that only 2000 of the original 4000 remained.<br />
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In 1889, the pitiful businessman Maurice Maitre, with the permission of the Chilean government, took eleven Selk'nam to Paris by force to exhibit them in the human zoos of the World's Fair. Of the 11 people he captured, 2 died on the way there. They were put in cages and given horse meat to eat. A missionary society protested their condition and he ended up canceling the tour to England, and instead took them to Belgium. Two more died on the way there. In Belgium, they were jailed for being immigrants by the police. When they finally returned to Tierra del Fuego, only six remained.<br />
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Because of their persecution, the Selk'nam that remained had all migrated to the southern coast and were deported by the Chilean government to Dawson Island. Some Salesian missionaries settled there with the purpose of converting and civilizing the remaining natives.<br />
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Despite the efforts of the missionaries, only 279 remained in 1919.<br />
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The number kept going down. In 1945, there were 25 left. And in 1974, with the death of Angela Loij, the last full-blooded Selk'nam was gone.<br />
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Nb: The Selk'nam, also known as the Onawo or Ona people, were an indigenous people in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina and Chile<br />
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Numerous evidence suggests that Muslims from Spain and West Africa arrived in the Americas at least five centuries before Co1umbus. It is recorded, for example that in the mid-tenth century during the rule of the Umayed Caliph Abdul-Rahman III (929-961), Muslims of African origin sailed westward from the Spanish port of Delba (Palos) into the “Ocean of darkness an fog.” They returned after a long absence with much booty from a “strange and curious land.” It is evident that people of Muslim origin are known to have accompanied Columbus and subsequent Spanish explorers to the New World.<br />
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The last Muslim stronghold in Spain, Granada, fell to the Christians in 1492 CE, just before the Spanish inquisition was launched. To escape persecution, many non-Christians fled or embraced Catholicism. At least two documents imply the presence of Muslims in Spanish America before 1550 CE. Despite the fact that a decree issued in 1539 CE, by Charles V, King of Spain, forbade the grandsons of Muslims who had been burned at the stake to migrate to the West Indies. This decree was ratified in 1543 CE, and an order for the expulsion of all Muslims from overseas Spanish territories was subsequently published. Many references on the Muslim arrival in the Americas are available. They are summarized in the following notes:<br />
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l. A Muslim historian and geographer Abul-Hassan Ali Ibn Al-Hussain Al-Masudi (871 - 957 CE) wrote in his book ‘Muruj Adh-dhahab wa Maadin al-Jawhar’ (The Meadows of Gold and Quarries of Jewels) that during the rule of the Muslim Caliph of Spain Abdullah Ibn Muhammad (888 - 912 CE), a Muslim navigator Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad of Cordoba, Spain sailed from Delba (Palos) in 889 CE, crossed the Atlantic, reached an unknown territory (Ard Majhoola) and returned with fabulous treasures. In Al-Masudi's map of the world there is a large area in the ocean of darkness and fog (the Atlantic ocean) which he referred to as the unknown territory (the Americas).<br />
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2. A Muslim historian Abu Bakr Ibn Umar Al-Gutiyya narrated that during the reign of the Muslim Caliph of Spain, Hisham II (976 -1009 CE), another Muslim navigator Ibn Farrukh of Granada sailed from Kadesh (February 999 CE) into the Atlantic, landed in Gando (Great Canary Islands) visiting King Guanariga, and continued westward where he saw and named two islands, Capraria and Pluitana. He arrived back in Spain in May 999 CE.<br />
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3. Columbus sailed from Palos (Delba), Spain. He was bound for Gomera (Canary Islands) - Gomera is an Arabic word meaning ‘small firebrand’ - there he fell in love with Beatriz Bobadilla, daughter of the first captain General of the island (the family name Bobadilla is derived from the Arab Islamic name Abouabdilla). Nevertheless, the Bobadilla clan was not easy to ignore. Another Bobadilla (Francisco), later as the royal commissioner, put Columbus in chains and transferred him from Santo Domingo back to Spain (November 1500 CE). The Bobadilla family was related to Abbadid dynasty of Seville (1031 -1091 CE).<br />
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On October 12, 1492 CE, Columbus landed on a little island in the Bahamas that was called Guanahani by the natives. Renamed San Salvador by Columbus, Guanahani is derived from Mandinka and modified Arabic words. Guana (Ikhwana) means ‘brothers’ and Hani is an Arabic name. Therefore the original name of the island was ‘Hani Brothers.’ [Click here for corrupted names of Arabic origin, such as those starting with Guad-, al-, Medina and others.]<br />
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Ferdinand Columbus, the son of Christopher, wrote about the blacks seen by his father in Honduras: “The people who live farther east of Pointe Cavinas, as far as Cape Gracios a Dios, are almost black in color.” At the same time in this very same region, lived a tribe of Muslim natives known as Almamy. In Mandinka and Arabic languages Almamy was the designation of “Al-Imam” or “Al-Imamu,” the person who leads the Prayer, or in some cases, the chief of the community, and/or a member of the Imami Muslim community.<br />
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4. A renowned American historian and linguist Leo Weiner of Harvard University, in his book Africa and The Discovery of America (1920) wrote that Columbus was well aware of the Mandinka presence in the New World and that the West African Muslims had spread throughout the Caribbean, Central, South and North American territories, including Canada, where they were trading and intermarrying with the Iroquois and Algonquin Indians....<br />
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