Author: Fatema

“In a rare public criticism of the New York Police Department, the top FBI official in New Jersey said Wednesday that the department’s surveillance of Muslims in the state has hindered investigations and created ‘additional risks’ in counterterrorism”: NJ FBI Official Says NYPD Monitoring of Muslims Caused ‘Risks’ in Terror Investigations (AP / Washington Post)…

“[T]his dangerous style in the expression of intellectual differences is a threat to peace among the citizens of one country and spreads sedition among them” — Tunisian President Muncef Marzouki : Marzouki Calls for Criminalising ‘Takfir’ (Maghrebia) “One remarkable quality of the Palestinian refugees which Pipes keeps from his readers, is that in the main they,…

“Despite strong statements from both the top U.S. and Afghan commanders, today’s violence took a sharp, dangerous twist as the protests spread into neighboring Pakistan. Radical and religious parties sponsored demonstrations in all four of Pakistan’s provinces, with protests in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, and Islamabad”: Koran Burning Protests Spread to Pakistan (abc News)…

” ‘I can tell you one thing, we now have a golden opportunity,’ he said, smiling. ‘And in this golden opportunity, I’m not interested in control. I’m interested in delivering the best charismatic system, a charismatic, democratic system. This is my dream,’ ” says Said Ferjani in this report by Anthony Shadid: Islamists’ Ideas on…

Ultra-conservative Islamist Presidential candidate Hazem Salah is calling on Egyptians to raise money in order to end the US annual aid to Egypt. But how long will the winning parties survive in Egypt if they fail to free up the economy to the point of self-sufficiency?… Islamist Presidential Hopeful Wants to End U.S. Aid to…

The most recent Muslim-Americans denied the right to return to the U.S., his attorney had to travel to Tunisia and “raise hell” with the assistance of a U.S. Senator: Ore. Man Asks Why He Was Queried by FBI in Tunisia (AP / abc News) Rand Paul wants to send Egypt an unequivocal message, but Essam el-Erian…

For years we have urged Muslims to return to the sunnah of the gold standard; has the U.S. stabbed the dollar in the back by forcing Iran to go half-way there and paving the way for other Muslim nations (and the rets of the world?) to follow: Iran Evades US Sanctions by Paying with Gold…

The Israeli “price tag” campaign of desecration of holy places spreads beyond mosques as “‘death to Christians’ and other Hebrew-language graffiti has been scrawled on a Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem”: Police Say Jerusalem Monastery Desecrated (AP / abc News) Shortly after release of his “Worldwide Threat Assessment”, James Clapper, “the director of national intelligence, said…

Despite Ban’s call for Israel to comply with International Law on settlements, Palestinians prohibited from visiting relatives held in Israeli prisons protest: UN Chief Urges Israel to Halt Settlements (AP / Times-Leader) Angry Palestinians in Gaza Hurl Slippers at Vehicle Carrying UN Chief (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)  The recent terrorist act in Norway performed…

“It takes a lot to get K Street to distance itself from a regime. Egypt’s ruling military junta has manged the feat by investigating a group of American NGO workers for criminal prosecution”: With Americans Holed Up in Cairo Embassy, Egypt’s Lobbyists in DC Quit (Christian Science Monitor) “My 14-year-old son once asked if what…