Why do both sides in the political debate continue to disingenuously call the Benghazi CIA base a “consulate” or even an “embassy” when it was nothing of the sort?
- An Alternative Explanation for the Benghazi Talking Points: Bureaucratic Knife Fight (Washington Post)
What then? Shall Google also stop calling the apartheid state “Israel” since “since it entrenches the [Zionists] in their view that they can further their political aims through one-sided actions rather than through negotiating and mutual agreement”?
- Israel Asks Google to U-turn on ‘Palestine’ Recognition (Al- Arabiya)
As Muslims object to the burial of a man killed in a hail of bullets before he could be convicted or acquitted of terrorism accusations in a country that does not hesitate to bury mass murders and terrorists of other faiths in accord with their own religious traditions, a Christian woman steps forward for common decency:
- Va. Woman Says Faith Prompted Her Efforts to Help Get Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Buried (Washington Post)
The “Islamist Justice and Development Party won the most seats on a platform of reform and fighting corruption”, but its coalition partners have fought “its efforts to cut spending and reduce subsidies”:
- Party’s Withdrawal Threatens Moroccan Govt (AP / abc News)
“Besides overhauling a moribund economy Sharif … wants to end his country’s decades old feud with India and put Pakistan’s meddlesome generals in their place. It is a programme that has won him fans even among left-leaning critics who oppose his conservatism. It has also raised hopes in India and Afghanistan”:
Rafsanjani “has enough of a liberal aura to re-energize reformers for the first time since being crushed in the wake of Ahmadinejad’s disputed 2009 re-election. He also is seen as a potential steadying hand on Iran’s sanctions-sapped economy as a ‘millionaire mullah’ patriarch of a family-run business empire”:
- Looking for a Hero: Iran’s Rafsanjani Builds Comeback Bid on Reformist Hopes (AP / Washington Post)
“Azath Sally, 49, the former deputy mayor of Colombo, was arrested on Sunday in what the minority Muslim community described as the latest attack on them in the Buddhist-dominated island nation”:
- Sri Lanka Frees Muslim Leader (Arab News)
“[H]e described the executions of nine people carried out by the government as ‘un-Islamic.’Â President Yahya Jammeh’s government faced mounting pressure from the international community as the Muslim cleric was regarded a prisoner of conscience by many human rights organizations”:
- Gambia Frees Muslim Cleric After 5 Months (AP / Yahoo)
After “bombs exploded on Boylston Street … the unlikely face of the Muslim community in its time of crisis became this 6-foot-5-inch, blond-haired, blue-eyed former hip-hop DJ whose grandfather was a fundamentalist Christian preacher””
- In Life and Words, Muslim Leader Bridges Cultures (Boston Globe)
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