Egypt’s plans to consider releasing overthrown dictator Hosni Mubarak  even as it prepares its prosecution of both secular politician Mohamed El-Baradei and the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual guide sums up the reversal of the advancement of Egyptian democracy…
- Egyptian Court Could Free Mubarak as Crisis Deepens (Reuters)
- Mohamed ElBaradei Facing Court Case (Guardian)
- Egypt’s Arrest of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Brings Ban Closer (LA Times)
- Muslim Brotherhood Appoints New Spiritual Guide (US News)
- Has Egypt Brought Back Mubarak’s Police State? (Christian Science Monitor)
… while the Gulf states, cheered by Egypt’s deteriorating Christian-Muslim relations  offer to pick up the slack as the US suspends aid …
- Christian-Muslim Animosity Becomes Incendiary Subplot in Egypt (LA Times)
- US Quietly Suspends Military Aid to Egypt, but Won’t Call Uprising a Coup (Christian Science Monitor)
… and journalists who cheered when the military that seized power, now face live bullets and accusations of spying:
- Media in Egypt Stoke the Heat — and Now Feel It (AP / abc News)
… and “violence in Sinai has intensified since the toppling of Mr Morsi, suggesting that events in Egypt’s core are closely linked to those in its periphery”:
“An Afghan teenager who survived a rampage by a U.S. soldier who killed 16 unarmed civilians last year testified on Tuesday about the pain of losing his grandmother, at the start of a sentencing trial for the man behind the carnage”:
Syria says accusations of a massive poisonous gas attack are a rebel effort to distract UN investigators from their mission, American reluctance to even limited military intervention is motivated by concern that the rebels would not support U.S. interests, and Syrians in Jordan resort to self-help because international local aid groups are overwhelmed by the crisis:
- Syrian Pro-opposition Groups Claim Dozens Killed in ‘Poisonous Gas’ Attack near Damascus (AP / Washington Post)
- Top US General Says Syrian Rebels Unready to Back US Interests, Rejects Cruise Missile Option (AP / Star-Tribune)
- With Aid Groups Stretched Thin, Syrian Refugees Provide Their Own Relief (Christian Science Monitor)
Amina Sboui attributes her change of heart to Femen chants “insulting to Islam” and to “other ‘Islamophobic’ acts” as well as their “obscure financing”:
- Tunisian Activist Quits Feminist Group Femen (AP / abc News)
“[T]he organisers of ‘hijabuppropet’ urged Justice Minister Beatrice Ask to take measures to ‘ensure that Swedish Muslim women are guaranteed the right to personal safety and religious freedom, without being subject to verbal and physical attacks’”:
- Swedes Don Hijab to Support Muslim Woman  (AlJazeera)
“[W]ith rebels blockading key oil ports and the capital, Tripoli, braced for armed confrontation[, l]eaders in the provinces of Cyrenaica and Fezzan are considering breaking away from the centre with rebel militias mobilising across the country”:
“More than 1,800 Rohingya who fled Myanmar by sea this past year are being detained across Thailand, often in overcrowded centers and shelters, and thousands more have been intercepted and pushed back out to sea by the Thai authorities”:
-  Muslim Rohingya Asylum Seekers Escape Thai Detention Center (Reuters / Yahoo)
“Israel has already treated the [Gazan] gas fields as its personal property”:
- Will Palestine Retain Its Natural Gas Fields? (Wallwritings)
Israeli “price tag” attacks are not restricted to Muslim targets:
- Israel Monastery Defaced in Apparent Political Act (AP / abc News)
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