News and Analysis (4/3/08)

More Bush administration legal memos depict “Big Brother” running amok around the Fourth Amendment and creating “a culture of abuse”…

…using shadowy “fusion centers” to suck up and store troves of personal data…

…and allowing the military, through the FBI’s abused National Security Letters powers, to illegally spy on Americans:

Attempting to allay ethnic and religious minorities’ fears, lawmaker from the Malaysian Islamic Party visits non-Muslim houses of worship…

…but such overtures could be undermined by extremists seeking to extend legal punishments against intra-Muslim flirting to Muslims and non-Muslim flirting:

The Egyptian state continues its political persecution of the Muslim Brotherhood, arresting another 147 activists after a recent demonstration:

“…I think the headscarf is not the issue here. It’s whether Turkey should develop into a normal democracy, from one dominated by a state elite that manages everything as they see fit.”—Suat Kiniklioglu, AKP parliamentarian

Alejandro

Alejandro Beutel is program assistant for the Minaret of Freedom Institute with expertise in religious freedom, democratization and security issues.


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