Despite lifting of emergency laws and Assad’s personal promise to end the bloodshed, reports of Syrian violence against civilians escalate:
- Syrian Security Forces Raid Home of Activists After Breaking up Funerals (Christian Science Monitor)
- 3 Prominent Syrians Resign in Protest Against Deadly Crackdown (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
- Syrian Army ‘Attacks Protest City of Deraa’ (BBC)
This is liberation? “Our churches have become like prisons†— Monsignor Pious Casha, Our Lady of Salvation:
- Iraqi Christians Mark a Restrained Easter (Christian Science Monitor)
“[T]he entire political wing of the prison was emptied of inmates. These had been ferried off to “secure destinations” by a fleet of cars the Taliban had organised”:
The “former Marine reservist and registered Republican, has been largely immune to the innuendo that has caused other politicians to distance themselves from Muslims post-Sept. 11. He has bucked the hard-line law enforcement approach of security checks and surveillance in favor of outreach and cooperation”:
- LA County Sheriff Reaches Out to Muslims Around the World (Sacramento Bee)
“[M]ost of the 172 remaining prisoners have been rated as a ‘high risk’ of posing a threat to the United States and its allies if released without adequate rehabilitation and supervision,” but so were “an even larger number of the prisoners who have left Cuba … before they were freed or passed to the custody of other governments”:
The crown prince hopes the Prince of Wales will “will accept my wholehearted apologies — and those of the Kingdom of Bahrain — but also recognise the circumstances and deep sense of responsibility in which they are proffered;” I’m afraid we do:
A failed assassination bombing?
- Gaddafi Compound Hit in Nato Attack (Guardian)
“There are many interfaith Seders but I am not aware of any, anywhere in the world where a mosque, a large important mosque, any mosque like the ADAMS center has actually hosted a Passover Seder” Andrea Barron, Washington Area Jews for Jewish Muslim Understanding:
Leave a Reply