As Palestinian Christians and Muslims defy the Israeli travel ban, Israelis arrest people, a horse, and a donkey…
.. and MK Abbas Zaki, refuses “to recognise the legitimacy of the military court in trying a senior Palestinian official for participating in a peaceful march” marking Palm Sunday …
- Fatah Official Shuns Israeli Court (Al Jazeera)
… while MK Jamal Zahalka calls Israel’s expropriation of “80 percent of the land of Arab citizens … ‘the biggest land robbery of the 20th century’”:
Some officials point to evidence, “largely circumstantial” that the Afghani “president’s brother is engaged in many activities that buoy the insurgency and undermine the Afghan state”:
- Despite Doubt, Karzai Brother Retains Power (NY Times)
Past sanctions have been ineffective, and the West should not provide Ahmadinejad with as a scape-goat for his failed policies:
- Q&A: Will Iran Nuclear Sanctions Work? (Christian Science Monitor)
Scholars reinterpret a 14th century fatwa by Ibn Taymiyya claiming that militant violence and the medieval Muslim division of the world into a “house of Islam” and “house of unbelief” no longer applies:
- Muslim Scholars Recast Jihadists’ Favorite Fatwa (Reuters / Washington Post)
Hindus tearing down Muslim’s green banners to replace them with saffron ones ends in at least one dead and many others injured:
- Curfew Follows Hyderabad Riots (Al Jazeera)
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