Egyptian court ruling seeks to balance religious liberty and “security†interests by striking University’s attempt to ban the face veil on campus, but does require that women remove it temporarily in order to enter:
- Cairo Campus Veil Ban Struck Down (BBC News)
After being freed from Gitmo, Uighur Muslims receive asylum in Albania, but live under surveillance with little hope of social mobility and others due to be released have no where to go:
- Chinese Leave Guantánamo for Albanian Limbo (New York Times)
Military adventurism in Middle East and lackluster support for outcome of electoral results leads to loss of credibility on global democracy support and hurts development of local civil society:
- Bush Is Losing Credibility On Democracy, Activists Say (Washington Post)
Malaysian Islamists, distracted by foolhardy attempts to implement corporal punishment, instead of focusing on peoples’ economic welfare, have the party fighting for electoral viability and motivates the party to elect moderates over hardliners to lead itself:
- Malaysia’s Islamic Party Fighting for Survival in its Last Political Bastion (Associated Press/International Herald Tribune)
- ANALYSIS – Malaysia’s Islamists Reshape Image to Win Allies (Reuters)
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