Minaret of Freedom Weblog

Under the compromise, Sunni candidates will be allowed to run for office but must deal with their appeal if they are elected…

• Iraqi Court Lifts Mass Ban on Candidates, Cutting Risk of Sunni Election Boycott (Washington Post)

…Meanwhile, Malik’s makeover from a sectarian politician to a nationalist has cost him more allies than he has gained, and with 400 dead since August, his claim of bringing stability to Iraq is in question:

• With Fewer Allies this Time, Iraq’s Maliki Faces Tough Reelection Campaign (Washington Post)

“America’s justice system, the establishment, the war on terror, the fraud of the war on terror, all of those things have shown their own ugly faces” – Siddiqui’s sister

• Pakistani Found Guilty of US Attack (Al Jazeera)

Israeli night raid arresting two Palestinians and detaining an American activist is captured on tape:

• Watch: American Detained for `Interfering` with Military (Ma’an News)

Days after the US drops a return to the moon, Iran sends a mouse, two turtles and worms into space:

• Iran Rocket Launch Opens Can of Worms in Space Race with West (Guardian)

Playing politics with an election approaching, the French immigration minister  denied  citizenship to a Muslim man who supposedly called his wife “an inferior being,” supporting Sarkozy’s view that women are incompetent to make up their own minds on what to wear:

• French Citizenship Denied to Man with Veiled Wife (Christian Science Monitor)