The man Think Progress refers to as the first democratically elected leader of a 100% Muslim country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, has been deposed at gunpoint in a military coup, according to the Guardian, by supporters of the longtime dictator Maumoon Gayoom. Nasheed, in addition to his importance for the development of democracy in the Indian Ocean region, is also remarkable for his seriousness and effectiveness in alerting the world to the dangers of global warning; one of the lighter moments in that career is when he held an underwater cabinet meeting, above, in 2009 to call attention to where his country is going to be if we cannot do something about the carbon-caused changes in the world climate (the Maldives is at its highest only a couple of meters above sea level).
ThinkProgress notes that
Global climate grassroots organization 350.org has established an urgent petition to ask the international community to help ensure Nasheed’s safety.so I am passing that on. Please have a look.
