“At the end of the war, Albania was the only European country with a larger Jewish population than before the war.” Jewish holocaust survivors themselves oversee opening of new photo exhibition detailing Muslims’ efforts to save Jews from Nazi extermination during WWII:
- Exhibition Honors Muslims Who Saved Jews (Washington Post/Associated Press)
Georgetown journalism professor Asra Nomani’s statistics show her fellow Indian Muslims are in a worse situation than India’s Hindu “untouchable†population:
- India’s New Untouchables (Washington Post)
Managing Saudi Arabia’s wealth while contending with its deeply entrenched conservative cultural interests, King Abdullah continues to tread carefully towards reform:
- Saudi’s Difficult Journey To Reform (BBC News)
Lebanon counts at least 342 breaches of its air and land sovereignty, in blatant violation of the truce made after the Hizballah-Israel war:
A worsening security situation and the possibility of an early unfavorable Supreme Court ruling have Western diplomats telling Musharraf to cool his thoughts on invoking emergency rule, and push him to continue on with elections in January:
- Musharraf Is Asked to Resist Emergency Rule (New York Times)
- Crisis Fears Make Pakistan Court Hurry Musharraf Case (Reuters/New York Times)