News and Analysis (4/21-22/07)

While lead Presidential candidates and Nigeria’s head monitoring organization call for new elections, the apathetic Syrian “electorate” openly voice openly voice “their lack of interest in the polls”:

• Nigerian Candidates Reject Poll (BBC News)
  
• Syrians Unmoved by Chance to Vote (BBC News)

Prime Minister Maliki and prominent Sunni parliamentarian Adnan Al-Dulaimi reject sectarian wall built by US military occupation forces:

• Iraqi PM Speaks Out Against Wall (BBC News)

Hamas officially ends its non-military resistance since 2004 after the latest Israeli incursion into the West Bank kills three Palestinians and a prominent Arab-Israeli Knesset member resigns from his political office:

• Israeli Soldiers Kill Three Palestinians in West Bank (Washington Post)

British Muslim argues that the term “moderate Muslim” is a redundant and loaded term and opts for “orthodox Muslim”:

• Why I Am Not a Moderate Muslim (Christian Science Monitor)

Alejandro

Alejandro Beutel is program assistant for the Minaret of Freedom Institute with expertise in religious freedom, democratization and security issues.