The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution Wednesday granting President Obama limited authority to launch a military strike on Syria in response to its reported use of chemical weapons against civilians …
- Senate Committee Approves Resolution Authorizing U.S. Strike on Syria (Washington Post)
… but who’s giving the orders?
- Pro-Israel and Jewish Groups Strongly Back Military Strike Against Syria (Washington Post)
… and why does John Kerry have such a hard time getting the orders straight?
With American support, Israel is ready for the coming war. “We are building an iron wall, an Iron Dome, and an iron will” — Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu …
- US-Israel Missile Test as Syria War Tensions Rise (Christian Science Monitor)
… but Putin insists that any attack without UN sanction is “aggression” ..
- Russia’s President Putin Warns US over Syria Action (BBC)
- On Eve of G20, Putin Set to Make Big Push on Syria (Christian Science Monitor)
… and “many Muslims, and not just Arab Muslims, look at American military actions in the Middle East as habitual, predatory, and destructiveâ€:
- In Syria Buildup, Obama Can’t Forget Broader Muslim World (Christian Science Monitor)
“The greatest form of jihad is speaking up against an unjust authority” [journalist Ilsam] Tawfiq, quoting the words of the Prophet Mohammad [peace be upon him]:
- Muslim Brotherhood Newspaper Soldiers on Despite Egypt Crackdown (Reuters / Yahoo)
In a “simple lane running through Zaatari refugee camp [they call] the Champs Elysées” Syrian refugees “have managed to create quite the shopping strip, with slushy machines, wedding dress shops, and color TVs for sale. One particularly enterprising refugee elsewhere in the camp even created his own swimming pool, charging 1 JD ($1.40) for each half-hour of swimming”:
- Syrian Refugees Top 2 Million – and Zaatari Camp Prepares for Long Haul (Christian Science Monitor)
“The hunger strikers are among 69 suspects convicted in July of links to an Islamist faction that authorities allege seeks to overthrow the UAE’s Western-allied ruling system. The prisoners claim that they have faced torture and other abuses since their arrests last year”:
- Rights Group Urges UAE Hunger Strike Probe (AP / Sacramento Bee)
Becoming a woman and a Muslim freed her from a life of depression. But although spokesman for her local mosque says, ‘Everybody is welcome, as long as they behave according to Islam”, congregants drove her away. ‘They said I had to pray with the men so I left and pray at home instead”:
“Baz said he strictly followed prison regulations, dismissing reports that the leaders were allowed contact with the outside world, allegedly through mobile phones smuggled to the prison”:
- Egypt’s Interior Minister Removes Prison Official (AP / abc News)
“Alpha Lambda Mu–a one-of-a-kind, all-Muslim fraternity at the University of Texas–is serious about rehabbing the reputations of both fraternities and Islam.” While conceding that the a Muslim fraternity might seem heretical, the founder argues that “living together and supporting one another makes it easier to follow Islam while at college”:
- Meet America’s First All-Muslim Texas Fraternity (Daily Caller)
“[P]etrodollar rich Muslim countries [with] absolutely no civic rights or political representation … permitted to the ordinary Muslims” Â now have “provided $12 billion to the Egyptian army and have pledged to provide many more billions of dollars to the army to uproot and destroy Ikhwan, millions of their supporters, and the political movements of the poor Muslims of Egypt”:
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