Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and others initiated the lawsuit out concern that the “statute that authorizes indefinite military detention for people deemed to have ‘substantially supported’ al Qaeda, the Taliban or ‘associated forces’ would adversely affect their First Amendment rights:
“[T]he prosecutor’s decision to take legal [action] appears aimed at absorbing at least some of the public anger over the amateur film, which portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and buffoon”:
- Egypt to Try 7 Copts, US Pastor over Prophet Film (AP / abc News)
Coptic Bishop Serapion and Muslim Public Affairs Council Senior Advisor Maher Hatout agree “that no religion or group should be blamed for the actions of one”:
- Pro-democracy “Arab Spring” Crowds Were Much Larger than Those Involved in the Current Protests in the Middle East and North Africa; Lack of Media Objectivity About Geographic Scope of So-called “Muslim Rage” Has Dangerous Implications (U. Colorado / U. Michigan)
- Newsweek’s ‘Muslim Rage’ Cover Sparks Wave of Scorn (Mother Nature Network)
- Is the Islamopocalypse Really upon Us? (Christian Science Monitor)
- Muslim Leaders Unite Against Violence (aap / Yahoo)
- Libyans Seek Justice for American Deaths (Enterprise News)
“I hope justice is served because it’s not okay, especially in America, … just to come up to someone and to punch them because we are expressing our freedom of speech” — Tili Ayala, after she saw her fellow volunteer at a Muslim information booth receive a swollen, bleeding eye from a screaming stranger:
- Muslim Volunteer: Attack in Santa Clara (NBC Bay Area)
Netanyahu and Abbas refused to comment, but “Palestinian lawmaker and scholar Hanan Ashrawi accused Romney of ‘destroying the chances for peace’ and called his remarks ‘irresponsible and dangerous and both ignorant and prejudiced’”:
- Romney: Palestinians Not Interested in Peace (Huffington Post)
“After America negotiated a cease-fire that included written guarantees to protect the Palestinian civilians remaining in the camps from vengeful Lebanese Christians, the Marines departed Beirut” but when the slaughter began, facilitated by the Israeli army, the U.S. failed “to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Israel that could have ended the atrocities”:
- A Preventable Massacre (NY Times)
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