With escalating violence in Syria condemned by the U.N. secretary-general, Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood promises”to establish pluralism and democracy in a civil constitutional State, with equality of all citizens – even in access to the country’s ‘highest level posts,’ and with full respect for human rights and freedoms” …
- Syria Muslim Brotherhood Issue Post-Assad Commitment Charter (World Bulletin)
… but while the U.S. goodwill tour of their Egyptian counterparts hits the right high notes, the broken promise to stay out of the Egyptian presidential race fuels doubts in the minds of Christians, liberals, secularists, women and others as to what other promises it would break …
- Muslim Brotherhood Attempts to Charm U.S. Skeptics (NPR)
- Muslim Brotherhood’s Goals Questioned as Candidate Runs for Egyptian Presidency (VoA)
- The FJP Vision is Inspiring, but Is It Believable? (Minaret of Freedom)
… and seems to have encouraged Mubarak’s chief intelligence officer to throw his hat into the ring just as the Nour Party candidate is disqualified for having an mother with a U.S. citizenship:
- Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s No. 2, Enters Egypt’s Presidential Race (Christian Science Monitor)
- Egyptian Protesters Rally to Support Islamist Presidential Hopeful Who faces Disqualification (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
Unintended consequences continue to bedevil Western intervention into Muslim affairs:
- Mali Rebels Declare Independence in North as Fears Grow over Extremist Links (Guardian)
- Did Libya’s Revolution Topple Mali into Crisis? (Christian Science Monitor)
- Mali Junta Sees Civilian Government “in Days” (Reuters)
“The overarching theme of these stories is, of course, the often conflicting pulls of religion and sexuality and how these Muslim women struggle to reconcile the two, particularly in the case where their partner is not Muslim. And yet what ties many of these women together is their own personal commitment to Islam”:
- Muslim Women Lambaste One-dimensional Stereotypes (Winnipeg Free Press)
“Being discriminated against for wearing certain types of clothing, or coming from certain religious or racial backgrounds is unacceptable… We want to help spread the word on campus to both honor Trayvon and Shaima’s lives, and to send a loud and clear message†— Yale Muslim Students Association announcement:
- Muslim Students Don Hoodies, Hijabs in Protest (Yale Daily News)
Correspondent alleges “Court proceedings in the Gaza Strip are not held in public, and defendants are identified only by their initials, so it can be difficult event to match announcements of executions even with previous news of arrests or convictions…. It is not even possible to know what specific charges the executed men faced”:
An Israeli official brands an Iranian legislator’s protest that Iran could build a nuclear weapon but doesn’t want to as a threat, but Israel’s Iranian Jews are left in an awkward position as they recall “relations with Muslims back in Iran as being ”so good it is hard to describe’” insisting neither they nor the Iranian people want war and asking what went wrong?
- Israel’s Iranian Jews Grapple with Possible Strike on Their Homeland (Christian Science Monitor)
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