Month: January 2007

Former State Department official argues “Nuclear-Free Zone” can bring stability and security to entire Middle East, including Israel and Iran A Middle East Free of Nuclear Weapons (Christian Science Monitor) Members of Israeli and Palestinian civil society produce a documentary on reconciliation that will reach wide Arab and Jewish audiences: Israeli Documentary Captures Citizen Reconciliation…

Muslim Museum in Mississippi: an example of civil society contributing to public education and social cohesion Islam In the Heart Of Dixie (AP/Washington Post) Was he manipulated by the police into making threats?  Court sentences young Muslim man to thirty years over an alleged terror plot: Would-Be NY Subway Bomber Gets 30 Years (AP/Washington Post)…

War of words between two US regional allies strengthens the Taliban: Pakistan needs to do more on Taliban, U.N. says (Reuters) With Saddam dead, court finds no need to try him on charges of massacring Kurds: Court Drops Kurd Charges Against Saddam (ABC News) Electoral protest in Bangladesh’s fragile democracy turns violent: Bangladeshi Police Clash…

A week after Saddam’s execution: · US Iraq Losses Now More Than 3,000 (AFP) Those who say Muslims don’t elect women to top offices have not been paying attention: · The Personal Politics of Bangladesh: Feuding Women Lead Top Parties (Washington Post) While others struggle to ban landmines, Pakistan proposes using them for border control…

Who benefits? · Cleric Gunned Down in Gaza After Plea for Calm (Reuters) French president foresees “the end of the centuries long, undivided Western domination of the world”: · Chirac Slams Iraq War as Boost to Terrorism (AFP) Somali example underscores the relationship between law and prosperity: “Mogadishu was liberated by the Islamic Courts movement,…

Going into business for themselves is among the means India’s Muslims are struggling to break free from second-class status India Awakens to its Other Pariahs: Muslims (Christian Science Monitor) How a cavalier attitude toward civil liberties can harm national security: Federal prosecutors rely on vague wiretapped conversations to prosecute Jose Padilla because coerced confessions are…

Democracy in Iraq: man who recorded the sectarian taunting of Saddam is arrested ·        Official Held in Saddam Hanging Video (ABC) Is this response to the Danish cartoons a case of poor taste or incitement to violence? (At least the editor of Jyllands Posten never said “I’ll be back”): ·        Cartoon Protests ‘Just Slogans’ (BBC)…

Fears of “an Iraqi-style insurgency” and a return of warlords remain in Mogadishu Ethiopian Army to Stay in Somalia in Coming Weeks (Reuters/Washington Post) Egypt arrests more Muslim Brotherhood members: Egypt Detainees 29 Members of Muslim Opposition (Reuters/NY Times) According to the Iraqi government “1,930 Iraqis died last month, three-and-a-half times the number killed in…