With the death toll mounting, Egyptian youth realize their trust in the military has been betrayed, Muslim puritans seek to take advantage of the discontent while the resignation of the cabinet raises questions as to whether next week’s elections will take place on schedule:
- Egypt’s Tahrir Square Protests: A Second Revolution Unfolding Now? (Christian Science Monitor)
- Egypt’s Arab Spring: Military Dictatorship Replaces Dream of Freedom and Democracy (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
- Strict Muslims Stake Claim on Egypt’s Political Scene (Ottawa Citizen)
- Egyptian Cabinet Submits Resignations amid Mounting Violence (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
As Bahrain takes a step in the right direction with an admission of excessive force …
- Bahrain Charges 20 With Abuse of Protesters (abc News)
… but despite external pressure and military defections, Assad continues his iron fist policy:
- Syria’s Deadline to End Violence Slips By During a Bloody Weekend (Christian Science Monitor)
- Turkish President Says Syrian Crisis at a ‘Dead End’ and Change Is Inevitable (Guardian Unlimited)
- Syrian Army Defectors Raise Stakes for Uprising amid Fears of Civil War (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
- Syria’s Assad Vows to Continue Iron-fisted Crackdown (Christian Science Monitor)
“Though the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon officially denied” the Hezbollah chief’s claim to have unmasked two CIA spies, “American officials concede that Nasrallah wasn’t lying and the damage spread like a virus as Hezbollah methodically picked off the CIA’s informants;” as with the 100 Israeli agents arrested by Hezbollah and the Lebanese government, “bad tradecraft doomed these CIA assets”:
- Hezbollah Unravels CIA Spy Network in Lebanon as Agency Contains Damage (AP / Washington Post)
Minaret of Freedom Institute advisory board member Prof. Charles Butterworth will be among the panelists discussing “attempts to constrain teaching about Islam and the Middle East on the American campus”:
- Panel to Discuss Anti-Muslim Bigotry in America, December 1 (PR Newswire / Sacramento Bee)
“After the pressures that Afghanistan and Turkey put on Pakistan at the Istanbul conference,” Pakistan “has agreed to allow in an Afghan team investigating the killing of ex-President Burhanuddin Rabbani”. who “was assassinated by a man posing as a Taliban peace envoy”:
“British Muslims are more proud to be British than the population as a whole, and they are significantly more optimistic about the country’s future”:
The Somali “government fears that the incursion by Ethiopia — a Christian-led nation — may hand the insurgents a propaganda victory”:
- Somalia Gov’t: Ethiopian Troops ‘Need a Mandate‘ (abc News)
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