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9/17/11, "Religious Unity Regulation prohibits preaching a religion except Islam," HaveeruDaily, Maldives
"President’s Office has gazetted the controversial Religious Unity Regulation, declaring it an offence to preach a religion
- except Islam in the Maldives.
- a ministry-approved college, university or centre.
The Islamic ministry is authorised under the regulation to license experienced persons who do not possess the educational qualification required.
The regulation, which instructs scholars to consider the social harmony, states practices that should be avoided in preaching Islam in the Maldives, including the practice of making comments in contradiction with prophetic
- traditions and majority view of the scholars.
“In explaining an issue that has been disputed by scholars, the different views expressed by scholars should be explained. If the scholar favours a certain point of view, evidence to support his view should be made clear,” the regulation reads.
The regulation also prohibits comments of hatred towards people of other religions, spreading a religion other than Islam and using an object that resembles a sign of a religion
- other than Islam.
- 2-5 years in prison, banishment or house arrest."
The Maldives' naturally occurring water table is apparently America's fault:
From IndianOceanIsland.com:
Islands of the Maldives "have a naturally high water table."
Maldives Islands "have not been influenced much by the western world and they keep strictly to Muslim faith"
"Climate:
"Every year the Maldives are affected by two monsoons: iruvai, which is the northeast monsoon, is hot and dry, while hulhangu, being the southwest monsoon, brings wind and rain to the islands of the Maldives....Only the far northern atolls of the Maldives are struck by cyclones."...
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8/22/11, "Stimulus Helped Equip Climate Research Facilities--In Maldives, India and Australia," CNS News, Penny Starr
"The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week that it has used $60 million of the $1.2 billion given to the agency in economic stimulus funds for purchasing “advanced-technology research instruments”
- to study climate change.
Some of this equipment was deployed at facilities in the Maldives, India and Australia."...
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Maldives has no income tax.
"8/21/11, "Sri Lanka gives Maldives $10m import credit," BBC
"The government of Sri Lanka has granted a $10m (£6.1m) import credit to the Republic of Maldives.
Analysts say the agreement signed in Colombo on Thursday during a visit to the island by President of Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, is mutually beneficial to both countries.
The Maldives archipelago which mainly relies on the tourism industry is currently facing a foreign exchange crisis, according to Amal Jayasinghe, the AFP bureau chief in Colombo.
"Maldives is among few countries in the world that does not collect any income tax," he told BBC Sinhala service.
"It is therefore struggling to balance the government
- spending sheets.""
Maldives President Nasheed working underwater in cooperation with US media (see below) to effect transfer of US middle class earnings to him for his island near India which has a naturally high water table and two monsoons a year.
11/2/2009, from the NY Times: "Last month, the cabinet of Maldives donned scuba gear and held an underwater meeting to highlight the threat of global warming to that nation,
- the world’s lowest." (last item in article)
12/7/09, "Climate change threatens Maldives," CBS "News".
CBS "News" stages a non-scientific, sensationalist event avoiding that problems in the Maldives have nothing to do with climate. CBS "News" seems to be a propaganda girl standing on the corner.
- They could have fed and clothed hungry American children with the money they wasted on gas flying to and from a hoax.
The Maldives' president's wife works for the UN (item near end of page under heading, 'Post-Script'), the primary profiteer of global warming and carbon trading.
The disappearing coral reefs aren't due to global warming. Instead:
- Maldivians use the coral reefs as their
The resort islands were only set up in the 1970's.
Recently, big hotel chains invested there.
No residents are allowed to have permanent residence on resort islands, so as not to dilute their
The islands are in the Indian Ocean.
"The Maldives' principal assets are its beauty, geographical isolation, and rich marine resources. When an
Italian entrepreneur set up some uninhabited islands as resorts
- for foreign visitors in the early 1970s,
- the tourism sector began to develop very rapidly.
The recent purchase of resorts by the multinational hotel groups, Hilton and Four Seasons, is a clear indication of the projected
growth of the Maldives' tourism sector. Yet the cultural effect of foreign influences has been controlled by the government policy of restricting tourist access to resort islands, unless they specifically apply for permission.
- Also, no Maldivians have their permanent residence on resort islands.
- The traditional construction material, coral, is near its point of full depletion.
- Reference: 12/8/10, Shakedown artists of Maldives and Tuvalu just trying to cash in
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12/8/10, "Cancun's Climate Crock," American Thinker, Brian Sussman
"And the submersion of Tuvalu and Maldives? Their surrounding waters show no measurable signs of rising. The problem is the islands of Maldives are relatively flat coral atolls. Since tourism was first introduced to the nation in 1972,
- ninety plush resorts have been built, with locally mined coral being the primary aggregate for construction.
- creating the impression that the islands are sinking.
- Tuvalu is a tropical island mess being
- run by slick politicians
- using global warming for a shakedown operation.
we believe that the major greenhouse polluters should pay for the impacts they are causing.""...
- The global whiners can continue to make all the wild pronouncements they wish, but the fact is that they're losing the debate."
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"Of all the apocalyptic imagery summoned by global warming's proponents, the most compelling has been
- the threat of coastal devastation from rising sea levels. In his best-selling work "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore argued that the selfishness of Western industrialization would obliterate small, impoverished countries.
"Although the sea level has risen and fallen through different geological periods, never has the change been anywhere near as rapid as that now expected as a consequence of global warming," he wrote. "... [I]sland nations like the Maldives and Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), will be devastated if the projections made by scientists turn out to be accurate."
- Mr. Gore solemnly predicted that millions of poor inhabitants would be forced to flee their homelands in a desperate bid for survival - unless we adopt his political agenda. It just isn't so.
In a forthcoming issue of the journal Global and Planetary Change, researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission in Fiji documented changes in 27 vulnerable, low-lying reef islands in the Central Pacific.
- Using aerial photographs taken as early as 1944, the areas were carefully mapped and compared with modern satellite images.
It turns out that the islands did, in fact, change over time, but they are hardly sinking. Overall, 20 grew or remained stable. The island of Funamanu, for example, expanded from 7.4 acres to 9.5 acres in size - a 28 percent growth. Only seven islands shrunk, with the biggest percentage change occurring on Tengasu, which dropped from a tiny 1.7 acres to 1.5 acres - a diminishment of 9,670 square feet, the size of Mr. Gore's Tennessee mansion.
According to various studies, sea levels appear to have risen about 8 inches since the year 1860, but these Pacific islands continue to prosper nonetheless. This new study attributed size differences over time to the effect of ocean swells pounding and eroding windward shorelines. On leeward sides protected from the swells, coastlines grew.
- In other words, nature struck a near-perfect balance, wholly unaffected by the purported evils
- of America's internal-combustion engines.
This research was not conducted by scientists who disputed climate change, but even they noted the suspicious absence of verification for a key alarmist claim.
- "The lack of monitoring seems a gross oversight given the international concern over small island stability and pressing concerns of island communities to manage island landscapes," the report stated.
So the islands aren't sinking, the Hockey Stick has been thoroughly debunked, the Himalayas still have snow and the polar bears are alive and well. As just about every tenet in the Church of Global Warming has been debunked,
- it's time for the movement's high priest, Mr. Gore, to offer a refund to those from his flock who bought his work of fiction."
6/3/10: "New Zealand research shows Pacific Islands not shrinking," from New Zealand television. From journal, Global and Planetary Change: "It has been thought that as the sea level goes up, islands will sit there and drown," Prof Kench told the New Scientist. "But they won't. " Mentions land area of
- Tuvalu had increased due to a typhoon in 1972..
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