Can what is splitting Egypt unite Yemen?
- Clashes Between Pro- and Anti-Government Demonstrators Escalate Sharply in Cairo (abcNews)
- Yemen’s Saleh Agrees Not to Run Again. Is that Good Enough for Protesters? (Christian Science Monitor)
- Yemen President Signals Won’t Stay Beyond 2013 (Reuters)
Can the current monarch match his father’s skill at responding to discontent without actually giving up power?
- Jordan’s King Dismisses Cabinet (Washington Post)
Not least of the differences between the Egyptian and Iranian revolts is the Egyptian army’s measured response this past friday compared to “Black Friday” when the shah’s troops “fired on antigovernment demonstrators with helicopter gunships and tanks” to leave thousands wounded and “500 dead in downtown Jaleh Square alone”:
- An Iran-style Outcome for Egypt? Why There Are key differences (Christian Science Monitor)
After Egyptians find ways around the shutdown:
On the “on the Catch-22 argument that no one can ever prove they were targeted by a secret program”:
- US Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Bush Wiretap Program (Christian Science Monitor)
“If it had been a proper court then my daughter would not have died,” protests the father of the 14-year-old murder victim, while there is no report of punishment of any sort for the married man with whom she allegedly committed adultery:
Despite high-profile cases like “Jihad Jane’s” guilty plea on Tuesday the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security found that “the number of U.S. Muslims accused in terror plots dropped by more than half in 2010”:
- Study: Fewer US Muslims in Domestic Terror Cases (AP/ Washington Post)
We may never know for what blasphemy has the 17-year-old student been arrested, since authorities fear that to tell us would be to commit the act of blasphemy themselves:
- Sami Ullah, Pakistan Boy, 17, Arrested For Blasphemy Due To Exam Answer (Huffington Post)
According to Human Rights Watch, India “needs to take bigger steps to make sure past practices of rounding up scores of Muslim men, holding them without access to lawyers and forcing confessions don’t make a comeback”:
- India Urged to Reform Antiterror Measures (Wall St. Journal)
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