NYMHM: Gay Muslims seek asylum; why cougars attack people

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  NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * March 19, 2008 * Vol. 7, No. 12

  Important but overlooked news from around the world.
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QUOTED:

    "You don't get to be an old cougar by doing stupid stuff like 
   hanging out in backyards and eating cats."

    -- Researcher Robert Wielgus on why mountain lion attacks are
    up in Washington State (see "Wildlife," below).


CONTENTS:
    
    *Gay Rights & Refugees*
      Gay Muslims seek political asylum in Britain

    *Wildlife*
      Hunting animals who hunt humans


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 GAY RIGHTS & REFUGEES
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 > Gay Muslims Seek Political Asylum in Britain

   The United Kingdom has been gripped in recent weeks by the 
   stories of two gay teenagers who say they face persecution and
   even death in their home countries of Iran and Syria. 
   
   Though unrelated, the stories the two youths tell are eerily
   similar. 
   
   The Iranian, 19-year-old Mehdi Kazemi, won a temporary reprieve 
   last week when the British Home Secretary agreed to reconsider 
   a deportation order, according to The Independent.  
   
   Kazemi had already lost one bid for asylum in Britain and had 
   been rejected in ...
   
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 WILDLIFE
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 > Hunting Animals Who Hunt Humans

   With mountain lion attacks are on the rise in rural Washington, 
   and many residents feel the answer is more hunting. 
   
   New legislation signed by Gov. Christine Gregoire allows just 
   that -- but a new study finds that hunting actually makes 
   attacks more likely.

   The Seattle Times reports that a research team from Washington 
   State University working in the northeastern part of the state, 
   where most of the attacks have ...
   
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   http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004591.html
     

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