Month: November 2013
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News and Analysis (11/11/13)
A deal is on the table, but  the devil is in the details, especially as to what the West is willing to give in response to the Iranian concessions after Iran’s concessions on inspections: Where Do the Iran Nuclear Talks Stand? (AP / Biloxi-Gulfport & Mississippi Gulf Coast Sun-Herald) Iran Allows Inspectors to Visit Two Key Nuclear…
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News and Analysis (11/8/13)
With John Kerry planning to join the negotiations as they seem to near conclusion, Iran Foreign Minister Zarif compares his country’s own hardliners to those in the US: Iran Foreign Minister Says Initial Nuclear Deal Could Be Struck Today: Interview (Christian Science Monitor) Iran: Don’t Blame Us, Blame Our Tea Party (Christian Science Monitor) “Supporters of…
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News and Analysis (11/6/13)
In sustaining the ban, the court endorses not only the kangaroo trail of Morsi, but the arrests of thousands of his followers , “including nearly all of the Brotherhood’s senior figures” and the slaughter of “[m]ore than 1,200 pro-Morsi protesters”: Egypt Court Upholds Ban on Muslim Brotherhood  (LA Times) “This judgment sends a message to Emirati…
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Challenges of Educational Reform in Muslim Societies
NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON GOOD GOVERNANCE IN ISLAM: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES #15 [This is the fifteenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on Good Governance in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches held in Herndon, VA. These notes have only been lightly edited and represent…
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News and Analysis (11/4/13)
Not content with banning the Muslim Brotherhood and putting the winner of the presidential election on trial … Mursi Faces Trial in Egypt in Test of Democracy (Reuters) … Egypt attempts a complete takeover of religion banning independent places of Muslim worship and requiring “state sanction to preach” … As Morsi Trial Nears in Egypt,…
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News and Analysis (11/1/13)
“Who are they to comment anyway? We got our own funding, we did not take any money from the government. Freedom of religion is enshrined in the Federal Constitution,” says temple president S. Anandakrishnan of the Muslim NGO “protesting the refurbishment work” … Let Them Make Noise, We Got Our Own Funding, Says Klang Temple President (Malaysian…
