Malaysian leader calls on world leaders to confront terrorism | Reuters

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called on world leaders to confront Islamic terrorism, saying its “barbaric acts” do not represent any race or religion, as he opened a regional summit overshadowed by a spate of attacks around the globe.Islamist militants killed 19 people in an attack on a hotel in Mali on Friday before Malian commandos stormed the building and rescued 170 people, many of them foreigners. This came a week after Islamic State militants killed 129 people in coordinated attacks in Paris.”The perpetrators of these cowardly and barbaric acts do not represent any race, religion or creed, nor should we allow them to claim to do so,” Najib said in his opening speech at the ASEAN summit.”They are terrorists and should be confronted as such, with the full force of the law.”Malaysia has deployed extraordinary security measures around Kuala Lumpur as leaders from 18 countries, including U.S. President Barack Obama, arrived for a pair of weekend summits.

Source: Malaysian leader calls on world leaders to confront terrorism | Reuters

Führer Trump To Register All Muslims In Amerikkka: Gothamist

Donald Trump, the talking slice of cheesecake served atop an expensive suit who moonlights as an esteemed Terrorism Whisperer, has come up with a solution to keep America safe from Islamic terrorists. In fact, one might call it a Final Solution of sorts, since it involves requiring Muslim-Americans to register with a database system so they can be “manag[ed].” Sound a little familiar? Hey, the Sudetenland could really use a classy casino!

Source: Führer Trump To Register All Muslims In Amerikkka: Gothamist

For Russia, Links Between Caucasus and ISIS Provoke Anxiety – The New York Times

Much like the disaffected Muslim communities in Europe, the Caucasus region and the swath of former Soviet republics across Central Asia have become a vital recruiting ground for the Islamic State. Law enforcement officials estimate that there are at least 2,000 fighters from the Caucasus among up to 7,000 recruits from Russia and the former Soviet Union now in Syria and Iraq.At the same time, the Islamic State is steadily establishing a foothold in the Caucasus. It is tapping into the rage and resentment over Russia’s constant, brutal and arbitrary security presence in order to foster a new crop of homegrown, fanatical opponents to revive the insurgency that the Kremlin suppressed.

Source: For Russia, Links Between Caucasus and ISIS Provoke Anxiety – The New York Times

Doctor Tells Patient: No More Birth Control for You, I’m Catholic

Earlier this month Leslie Gauthier received a letter from her doctor stating that, as a “Catholic physician” the doctor would no longer prescribe birth control. Unfortunately, Ms. Gauthier’s experience is all too common. Medical providers, clinics, and hospitals across the country are substituting their personal or institutional beliefs for sound medical judgment and denying people medical care.

Putting Personal Beliefs Above Patient Care

In some ways, Ms. Gauthier’s situation could have been worse. At least her doctor let her know about the new restrictions before she came in for her appointment. People are often refused care only after they have arrived at a doctor’s office, a hospital, and even the pharmacy. Last year, a pediatrician refused to treat a newborn infant because her parents were lesbians. When Krista and Jami Contreras arrived at the pediatrician’s office with their six day old daughter, they were greeted, not by the doctor they had carefully selected and previously met, but another doctor. This doctor told them that their original pediatrician had “prayed on it” and decided she couldn’t care for their daughter.

birthcontrolpill_istock_000022609098_larIn April, two separate pharmacies refused to fill a prescription to treat Brittany Cartrett’s miscarriage. Another woman responded to Ms. Cartrett’s Facebook post about her experience and told a similar story. That woman ultimately chose to undergo a more invasive surgical procedure to complete her miscarriage rather than face additional humiliation at another pharmacy.

People refused care often don’t even know that there were other treatment options available. When Tamesha Means’ water broke after only 18 weeks of pregnancy, doctors at the Catholic-affiliated Mercy Health Partners hospital sent her home twice. The hospital told her there was nothing they could do, even though in these circumstances terminating the pregnancy would have been the safest course of treatment. There was virtually no chance that the pregnancy could continue and waiting merely placed Ms. Means’ health and life in jeopardy. Ms. Means was only offered care after she returned to the hospital a third time in extreme distress and with an infection. Even then, the hospital staff were in the process of discharging her she went into labor.

We Deserve Better

It’s becoming increasingly common for people to try to impose their own beliefs on others by refusing to provide services. Sometimes it’s the service they object to and sometimes it’s the people. It’s always discrimination and it’s always wrong. But medical providers, in particular, have an ethical and moral duty to treat their patients with dignity and respect and to provide appropriate and necessary medical care. Personal beliefs should not trump patients’ access to the care they need. 

New Ebola Case Confirmed In Liberia After 17 Weeks

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On September 3rd, and for the second time this year, Liberia was declared `Ebola-free’ after going 42 days  without a positive Ebola lab test.   They then entered a 90 day `period of heightened surveillance’ – which, if it passed without incident – would finally allow the country to declare their battle truly won.

Today, less than two weeks before that `probationary period’  was to end, we got the heart wrenching news that a new Ebola case has been confirmed near the capital city of Monrovia, reportedly a 10 year old boy.

Assuming these reports are correct, the process of contact tracing begins again, and the countdown clock gets set back to zero.  It also means there are still unidentified chains of infection in the region, and raises question anew about the convalescent shedding of the virus by recovered Ebola patients. 

Determining what risk exposures this child may have had, including travel and/or contacts with travelers, now becomes a top priority, along with monitoring his contacts and containing any further spread.

Getting to zero was never thought to be easy, but today’s announcement demonstrates how hard that goal is going to be to achieve.   This report from Reuters.

 

New case of Ebola found in Liberia – U.N. official

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A new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.

The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, said the official, who declined to be named.

The case represents a setback for Liberia, which has seen more than 10,600 cases and 4,808 Ebola deaths since it was first announced in March, 2014, according to U.N. World Health Organisation figures.

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