“To gain international financial assistance, the new government needs to prove its commitment to basic human rights. Lingering concerns about extrajudicial killings will set back that effort” …
… but his inglorious burial is an unpromising start; “Throw him in a hole, in the sea, in garbage. No matter. He is lower than a donkey or a dog and only foreigners say they care about how we killed him. And they are lying”:
- Libya Gives Gaddafi Inglorious Secret Burial (Reuters)
“This election helps shatter the myth that Arabs can’t act in a democratic fashion. But now this pioneer nation, whose every move is followed on Arabic satellite TV channels, needs help to shake up its dormant economy and consolidate its revolution”:
- Tunisia Election Result: A First for Arab Spring, a Chance for Obama (Christian Science Monitor)
Anti-Islamic opinions are suppressed through legal punishment in Egypt while they are avoided by civic pressures in Tennessee:
- Egyptian Facebook User Jailed for 3 Years for Anti-Islamic Opinions (AlMasry AlYoum)
- Tennessee Hotel Cancels Contract With Major Anti-Muslim Conference (Think Progress)
While the FBI “opposes racial and ethnic discrimination,†they are eager to draw “connections” between crime and the ethnic and racial nature of a society:
- FBI Uses Maps to Track Muslims and Fight Fake Crime (Color Lines)
- Muslim Americans Find Ways to Engage (The Daily News Egypt)
