Month: November 2011

While Egypt, Tunisia and Kuwait engage the new generation of conservative by allowing their participation in the political process, Jordan has reportedly “kept them in solitary confinement and denied them medical attention”, as the authorities there see “their very existence as an ongoing threat to the country’s stability”: As Gov’t Warms up to Islamists, Salafists…

Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that FBI statistics found that anti-Muslims hate crimes rose nearly 50 percent in 2010, and Cain refuses to identify the “Muslim leader” who warned hm that most Amercian Muslims are extremists: FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence (Huffington Post) Cain’s Lapse into Bigotry, Again (Washington Post) “The free market system…

As a police kill a suicide bomber targeting the meeting, Karzai says this loya jirga, unlike the one that placed him in power, will be strictly “consultative” and non-binding, but his opponents fear that it will be “constitutional” and provide an excuse “to prolong the duration of his government, or announce a state of emergency…

The “younger brother of the brave Tunisian fruit vendor whose self-immolation triggered the Arab uprising” shares with  economist Hernando de Soto the hope that “the lesson of his brother’s “sacrifice would bring to the Arab World” would be that “the poor also have the right to buy and sell”: The Free Market Secret of the Arab…

Municipal authorities leave  racist slogans including “Death to Arabs” sprayed on gravestones at the Muslim cemetery some Israelis seek to desecrate in order to build a “Museum of Tolerance”weeks ago unerased; especially ironic is that some say the cemetery contains the remains of troops of Saladin who allowed the Jews back into Jerusalem after defeating…

Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, President and Director of the Minaret of Freedom Institute,and Dr. Steven Zunes, a professor of politics and international studies at the University of St. Francisco talk about Iran’s nuclear program and the wider implications of the IAEA claims that it has credible information that Tehran is trying to build nuclear weapons: Iran Will Not…

Sen. Mark Kirk’s (R-IL)  says his plans to “collapse the Central Bank of Iran,” slamming the door on Iranian oil exports won’t cause a painful surge in oil prices because Saudi hatred of Iran exceeds their good economic sense and they would make up the differnece at current prices, but others “say Saudi Arabia doesn’t…

Muslim Brotherhood’s Eid charity wins goodwill of voters, but some think systemic change is more important than food subsidies: Muslim Brotherhood Sells Cheap Food Ahead of Holiday and Egypt Parliament Vote (Washington Post with Foreign Affairs) Hurriyah (her first name means freedom) Ziada is part of a nascent movement rejecting the two-state solution in favor…

The new proliferation of civil society institutions gives women new opportunities that fear of of the brutal Revolutionary Committees denied them despite Gaddafi’s expanding “educational and employment opportunities for women and signal[ing] a commitment to gender equality by traveling with a contingent of gun-toting female bodyguards” … Libyan Women Savor New Freedoms After Revolution (Washington…

By firing tank mounted machine guns on demonstrators only a day after agreeing to the Arab league plan to withdraw the military from the cities, Syria has sabotaged Erdogan’s “no problems with neighbors” policy: Syria Unrest: Tanks Open Fire’ in Homs (BBC) Turkey’s Bold About-face on Syria (Christian Science Monitor) A Florida councilwoman says its…