News and Analysis (2/19/07)

Latest BBC poll shows polarization, but possibility for a ‘middle ground’ between Muslims and Westerners:

Middle East professor Juan Cole gives his analysis and opinion on why Muqtada As-Sadr most likely did not flee to Iran and provides a link to the draft law on Iraqi oil money:

The effects of the Iraq military distraction:

Attack on Indian train bound for Pakistan part of a “conspiracy… to disturb the peace process between India and Pakistan”

Fascism Watch: Editorial calls for the repeal of a passed provision giving greater executive authority to declare martial law in America

“What could have been done to Mr. Padilla in those seventy-two, or so, hours that the government turned off the camera when for almost four years every one of Mr. Padilla’s bowel movements were videotaped?” – Defense lawyer Anthony Natale

“While it is dispiriting to read about the bungling overzealousness of a government that has more often treated American Muslims as part of the problem of Islamic extremism than as part of the solution, there is nevertheless something oddly hopeful in Hussayen’s unflinching faith that the rights and freedoms for which the United States has for centuries been admired throughout the world would ultimately protect him from harm”–Reza Aslan reviews Paul Barrett’s new book:

Alejandro

Alejandro Beutel is program assistant for the Minaret of Freedom Institute with expertise in religious freedom, democratization and security issues.


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