Month: April 2013

  • News and Analysis (4/10/13)

    While John Kerry kids himself into believing a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute can ignore UN Res. 194, Khaled Mashaal demonstrates his own naivete by “seeking to transform his Islamic militant movement that rules Gaza into a widely recognized political force …without making concessions toward Israel needed for international acceptance”: Analysis: Hamas Chief Seeks Wider Regional Role in New…

  • News and Analysis (4/8/13)

    The brawl in which seven Buddhists and a Muslim died broke out in a “severely overcrowded Indonesian detention center” whose homeless Rohingya inmates get no “welcome mat rolled out to them…. The country has a long track record of trying to avoid resettlement of refugees, whatever their religious beliefs, and that’s unlikely to change soon” … How Myanmar’s…

  • News and Analysis (4/4/13)

    British personnel were told to pretend the prisoners had been captured by Americans so that the government could “to side-step a Geneva convention clause that would have obliged it to demand the return of any prisoner transferred to the US once it became apparent that they were not being treated in accordance with the convention”: Camp Nama:…

  • Women and the American Mosque

    In a March 27 webinar, seven major organizations (including Women in Islam, ISNA, and CAIR)  released their third report on American Mosques in the US, this time on Women and the American Mosque. The report is simply excellent!  You can read it at: http://www.hartfordinstitute.org/The-American-Mosque-Report-3.pdf The main findings of the report are that fewer than half…

  • News and Analysis (4/2/13)

    The violence Myanmar takes its toll on schoolchildren … 13 Dead in Blaze at Myanmar Muslim School (AFP / Global Post) … but arrested Buddhist monks are released after Video footage on YouTube shows monks actively involved in the attack on a Fashion Bug store, and a nationalist monk accuses the Muslim victims of provoking the Buddhists…

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