Sanctuaries Quotes
Under the Kanun, even blood enemies who would kill each other under any other circumstances may not attack anyone in his home or be attacked. The stricture masks many major difficulties and made the Serbian atrocities against Albanians in Kosovo even more offensive to Albanians who follow the Kanun.
Al Qada and Taliban insurgents fighting in Afghanistan had a sanctuary for training and resupply in the rugged mountains of Pakistan near the Afghan border. Many American military and policy makers believed that we did need Pakistan to close down the sanctuaries and lines of supply if the war was to end. However, the Pakistanis, as Mr. West stated, extracted much from the United States while at the same time, not only refusing to try to control their frontier, but several elements of the Pakistani government were actually assisting the Taliban and Al Qada while taking U. S. Military Aid to suppress them.
This Biblical Quotation was one of the main reasons that Christian religious abolitionists were so active in the Underground Railroad and other efforts to assist and harbor fugitive slaves. It was also a motivating force for those states which passed laws making a slave free the second he set foot in the state. It was cited by many of those Northerners refusing to follow the Federal Fugitive Slave Act even after the Supreme Court upheld it in the Dred Scott decision. The act required them to return a fugitive slave to his master. This clearly violated this passage of the Bible. and the concept of States Rights. The Southern States which pushed the Fugitive Slave Act through Congress and complained bitterly when it was ignored by many Northern States were never able to provide any refute to the argument that because of this passage, following the act would be violating the law of God. The South which viewed itself as a bastion of Christianity, never were troubled by this passage when they passed state laws requiring the return of fugitive slaves. It illustrates the hypocrisy that slavery forced upon its advocates.
. We cannot suffer a foreign government to allow plots to our polity to be hatched on its territory!
The assassins and plotters who murdered the Archduke of Austria in Sarajevo were 5 Serbs and a Bosnian. They planned their operation in Serbia. This was the excuse that Austria was giving for going to war with Serbia who had an alliance with Russia.
The Pakistani Government at the time and for most of the history of that nation did not have much control over the military, and regardless of what agreements the civilian government might have made, the military did not wanted to curry favor with as many Islamic radical terrorist groups as possible even though they even killed Muslims of Pakistan. They would not send the military into Northern Pakistan (Waziristan) to eliminate the Taliban sanctuaries or offend their tribal "hosts" as they were so paranoid about India that they wanted the terrorists as allies.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
1st Earl of Mansfield
She had just been appointed as the Librarian of Congress
1st Earl of Kingston. In 1848, there were a number of democratic revolutions in Europe. In France, however, there was a Military Coup led by Louis Napoleon (Napoleon BonaparteII) who was then declared “President.” The French King and Queen escaped and went to England. The new Louis Napoleon French government charged that if the English would provide asylum to the French Royal Family, England would be interfering in the internal affairs of France by supporting the Royal Family in their presumed efforts to regain the crown. At the same time, there were many Englishmen who wanted nothing to do with the French King as France had been England’s traditional enemy. None the less, the Prime Minister maintained and strengthened the English principle and tradition of tolerance and asylum for a wide variety of political opinion. Over the years many people, great and not; right, left, and center, popular and unpopular, had found sanctuary in England. This tradition was picked up by America which even eclipsed England in being the great political asylum to the world.
In the first part of the 18th Century, one county in Virginia became a magnet for runaway indentured servants, The more runaways settled there the more empathetic and hospitable they were to new runaway servants. The culture at the time had identified knowing your place in society and accepting it. So a runaway indentured servant had renounced their oath and contrast to serve their masters, and hence were not Christians. These renegades were armed and there was not enough political will or support for forcing the County to comply with the laws and mores of the time.
of the Jewish refugees from the German concentration camps
Alabama passed a set of laws making it a crime to assist undocumented immigrants in any way. However, many of the religions in Alabama required providing sanctuary. It would not be Christian to provide food for poor documented immigrants and their children but not provide food for poor illegal immigrants and especially their innocent children. Many of the religious groups in Alabama filed a lawsuit to declare the Alabama state laws unconstitutional. The Federal Courts did do but the basis of their ruling was the state was encroaching on a Federal function—control of immigration. The court did not have to rule on the thorny issue of interference with religion so the point has not yet been settled.
