News and Analysis (12/8/14)

The killer with the “Quran is a virus worse than ebola” sign in his car window stalked the mosque for weeks and then pretended h had lost control of the vehicle before admitting “he had struck the teenager because he looked like a man who had threatened him several days earlier”:

“What kind of person would go to the police if they think their son will get 12 years in prison?” the young man’s mother asks, comparing “her son’s harsh sentencing to a two-year-prison term for British soldier … [for] making bombs filled with shrapnel along with possessing knives, axes and [fux] guns”:

“The only dissenters were Israel and the United States, along with three small South Pacific islands that always vote with the US, presumably in order to receive foreign aid. Some 161 countries voted for the measure”:

“Rezaian has not been allowed to speak to a lawyer hired by his family, which Kerry called a ‘clear violation of Iran’s own laws and international norms.’ Rezaian’s brother, Ali Rezaian, said in an interview Sunday that Iranian authorities have “bent over backwards to bend and break their own rules to keep him in jail” …

… while, in what analysts suggest “might be a veiled reference to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps” Rouhani is blaming “monopolies – on anything from the production of rifles to advertising – … [as] the cause of corruption. ‘Anything which does not have rivalry or whose management is monopolised is flawed’”:

Opponents of “the ban on women driving [say it] underpins wider issues regarding guardianship laws in Saudi Arabia that give men powerful sway over women’s lives…. No such ban exists in the rest of the Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia’s conservative Gulf neighbors”:

Four unnamed defendants out of 18 were referred to the grand mufti after the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced them to death on Sunday, according to state media …

… but “a member of Morsi’s defence team said many NGOs and political parties cooperate with the US…, and that the prosecution has singled out the Brotherhood to oppress the group politically”  and that attacks were the work of “criminal elements”:

“Hagel said the original plan to cut U.S. troop levels to 9,800 by the end of this year had been abandoned, but not because of a recent surge in Taliban attacks … [but] because planned troop commitments by U.S. allies for a NATO train-and-assist mission … have been slow to materialize”:

“Groups like ISIS pose a genuine threat to the West. But the bigger war is being waged within Islam itself… For classical Muslim theologians, the decision of who was and who wasn’t a Muslim was ultimately up to God”:

The Indian Court ruled that young adult Muslims cannot be denied the right to marry if the parents do not object:


Posted

in

by

Tags:

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

RSS
Follow by Email