News and Analysis (4/10/13)

While John Kerry kids himself into believing a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute can ignore UN Res. 194, Khaled Mashaal demonstrates his own naivete by “seeking to transform his Islamic militant movement that rules Gaza into a widely recognized political force …without making concessions toward Israel needed for international acceptance”:

Whatever your opinion on the morality of drone strikes may be, it’s hard to argue their effectiveness against the man who was reported to have been killed by one:

Amina Tyler helps advance liberation of Muslim women when she bares her breasts about as much as the guy in the trench coat out by the schoolyard helps advance the liberation of Western men when he flashes his private parts:

“The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. ‘If you follow us, I’ll kill her,’ the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city in central Myanmar”:

The U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka has called upon moderate Buddhists to help stop the “hate speeches, vilification and even attacks on Muslim-owned businesses and places of worship by Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist groups” that have been met by inaction “that has spurred allegations that the government supports the campaign, which it denies”:

“In my judgment, the 2006 Memorandum by requiring the plaintiff, a non Christian, to remain on parade with his cap off whilst a Christian minister said a prayer, was a violation of the plaintiff’s freedom of religion” — Bahamian Chief Justice:

“I can’t work in public institutions, and now I can’t work in private institutions. What is my future? In my opinion, this is a disastrous law” — an Algerian graduate student:

Syria’s state news agency immediately sought to capitalize on the announcement by declaring it “proves that this opposition was never anything other than a tool used by the West and by terrorists to destroy the Syrian people”:

No one knows what will happen after the foreigners leave Afghanistan …

… but unless the Taliban is part of the solution, expect a civil war:


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