One Egyptian is spared, …
- Egypt Brotherhood Leader Clear of Insulting Judges (AP /abc News)
… but an Egyptian-American’s letter from prison reveals the depth of the junta’s cruelty:
- Prison Letter from Hunger-striker Muhammad Soltan (Middle East Monitor)
Hatred belongs in the public domain. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court says that while Pamela Geller may use terms disparaging other people, she can’t use the power of the state to prevent others from using them:
- Court Denies Trademark Protection to Anti-Muslim Group (Washington Post)
“The New York Police Department has no intention of scrapping a policy of recruiting Muslim arrestees and arrestees from Muslim countries as informants, visiting NYPD Commissioner William Bratton told The Jerusalem Post”:
As negotiators make another attempt to start a final draft on a nuclear accord …
- Iran, World Powers Begin New Round of Nuclear Talks (Christian Science Monitor)
… America prosecutes an Israeli for selling jet parts to Iran …
- Israeli Arrested on US Request Over Iran Trade (AP /abc News)
… and Iran boasts of a pending test flight for its replica of a downed U.S. drone …
- A ‘Nightmare Becoming Reality’? Iran Unveils American Drone Replica (Christian Science Monitor)
… Saudi Arabia and Iran both signal desire to end the divisiveness that leaves the would-be regional leaders easy prey to their common enemies:
- Saudi Arabia Invites Iran’s Top Diplomat to Visit (AP / abc News)
- Iran Shows Openness to Improving Saudi Ties (AP / abc News)
As the chair of governors at the “school at the centre of the ‘Trojan Horse’ allegations” expresses his shock at the poliferation of “false allegations”, …
… “with each reincarnation of a creeping Islamic threat, the gulf between the facts and what is reported widens. The following are some of the most popular examples – and the facts that discredit them”:
The shocking nature of Boko Haram’s most recent atrocity has put the little-understood terrorist group in the spotlight:
- What We Know Now About the Kidnapped Nigerian Girls (AP /abc News)
- Boko Haram: Six Reasons Why the Nigerian Militant Group Is So Powerful (Guardian)
- The Boko Haram Terrorists Are Not ‘Islamic’ (Daily Beast)
- Nigeria Signals Readiness to Talk to Boko Haram Rebels (Reuters)
- Boko Haram Leader Shekau is Dead Say Nigeria Officials, as Nation Rolls Its Eyes (Christian Science Monitor)
- Why Nigeria Cannot Defeat Boko Haram (BBC)
Proving they prefer autonomy to welfare, “Iraqi Kurdistan is risking the loss of its share of Iraq’s national budget to secure greater independence and the right to manage its own oil”:
- Iraqi Kurdistan Gambles on Oil and Baghdad’s Benevolence (Christian Science Monitor)
Dakka claimed that rather than wait while his attorney finished parking his car, an impatient detective “lunged toward Dakka’s daughter to bring her inside the headquarters, and a melee started in which … police officers allegedly beat Dakka to the ground” and the called Dakka names “and uttered expletives”:
- Hackensack Agrees to Settle with Muslim Man Who Claims Police Beat Him (northjersey.com)
“[I]mplementation and timing of the reform remain in doubt, as does the nature of the system that will take its place. In one significant change it will become easier for foreigners to leave the country and change jobs. This and other reforms will have to be ratified by the shura (advisory) council”:
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