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February 06, 2012 | | UNDER ATTACK From one end of the Muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith. In January 2012 alone, the Nigerian group Boko Haram, whose stated goal is to kill all Christians in that country, has been responsible for 54 deaths. In this week’s Newsweek, Ayaan Hirsi Ali reports on a war the media has been reticent to report—and says the fate of all minorities is at stake. 2012 Mitt Romney may have won Nevada, but the brutal primary campaign appears to be taking a toll on his national support. A poll by The Washington Post and ABC News finds the Republican frontrunner clearly losing to President Obama for the first time. Obama's approval rating came in at 50 percent—the highest since the killing of Osama bin Laden—and he is beating Romney 52 percent to 43 percent in a general-election matchup. Voters said they disapprove of things the GOP primary candidates have said during the race, and by more than 2 to 1, voters said that the more they learned about Romney, the less they like him. As Romney suffers from the primary fight, Obama is benefiting from increasingly good jobs numbers. Even worse for Romney, the poll found that the two are evenly matched in voters' minds when it comes to job creation. Victory Looks as though Tom Brady and the New England Patriots won't be getting rid of their demons anytime soon. The New York Giants won the Super Bowl Sunday, defeating New England 21-17. The game went down to the last play, with Brady hurling a hail mary to the endzone as time expired, deflecting off a few players, and landing just inches away from a Patriots receiver. With about a minute left, the Giants down by 2, the team failed to successfully run down the clock so that the Patriots would have no time, instead stumbling into a touchdown. It's the Giants' Eli Manning's second championship. ASSAULT Syria is spiraling further into violence after a U.N. resolution criticizing President Bashar al-Assad’s regime failed to pass. The shelling of Homs has resumed with a vengeance, killing at least 50 people so far, according to activists. Rebels say a hospital is being targeted and that the assault is one of the largest in the 11-month uprising. Syria’s biggest opposition group said Russia and China, the two nations that vetoed the resolution, are “responsible for the escalating acts of killing.” Russia and China claimed that supporting the resolution would have amounted to taking sides in a civil war. On Sunday, Hillary Clinton called the veto a “travesty.” WARFARE A report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism may undercut President Obama’s claim that U.S. drones haven’t caused many civilian casualties. According to the bureau, the U.S. has repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a drone strike, as well as mourners at funerals. It found that at least 50 civilians have been killed in the follow-up strikes and another 20 at funerals. The report is based on interviews with witnesses in Pakistan’s tribal area, and American officials have questioned its accuracy. | | 
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