News and Analysis (10/11/10)

The banned party’s decision to run is called “a slap in the face” to their former ally Mohammed Baradei, who had called for a boycott:

• Egypt’s Opposition Muslim Brotherhood to Run in Parliamentary Election (VoA)

“Many investigations in Europe have centered on mosques where extremist preachers incite hatred of non-Muslims, intelligence officials said”:

• Germany Steps Up Terrorism Probes (Wall Street Journal)

“One of the world’s most prolific thinkers and a professor of Islamic Studies at Oxford University, Ramadan has been named 49th among Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the world’s top 100 contemporary individuals”:

• Tariq Ramadan Speaks About Muslim Identity (Daily Northwestern)

“The way to win the war against Islamist extremism is to isolate the fundamentalists from the main streams of Islam. Pamela Geller, on the other hand, would radicalize moderate Muslims”:

• Pamela Geller, Clinical Paranoid (Atlantic)

Kevin Duewel