For years we have urged Muslims to return to the sunnah of the gold standard; has the U.S. stabbed the dollar in the back by forcing Iran to go half-way there and paving the way for other Muslim nations (and the rets of the world?) to follow:
- Iran Evades US Sanctions by Paying with Gold (Christian Science Monitor)
“The leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal in Qatar on Monday to form a unity government of independent technocrats for the West Bank and Gaza, headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas”:
- Palestinian Rivals Agree to Form Unity Government (Reuters)
- Abbas to Head Palestinian Unity Government (Al-Jazeera English)
Telling his wife “I am striking against humiliation,†Khader Adnan is called a terrorist by his Israeli captors, but they have never charged him with anything:
- Palestinian Prisoner on 55th Day of Hunger Strike to Protest Detention Without Trial (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
Turkish diplomats and Arab religious schoalrs have had their fill of Asad’s bloodshed:
- Syria’s Homs Bombarded again, Turks Push for Solution (Reuters)
- Muslim Scholars Urge Soldiers to Disobey Assad’s Orders (Today’s Zaman)
A former teacher home-schooling her children enables her to combine lessons about Islam, science, and current events as “after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year. We studied earthquakes and tsunamis and donated” food to the victims in fulfillment of Islam’s charitable obligations:
- Voices in Education: Hagara Emira (Montgomery Gazette)
“A defender of Palestinian rights, a friend of several Lebanese political players, and an former friend of Bashar Assad, Turkey is beginning to be seen as a model of an Islamic democracy, slightly different from the liberal version, but faithful to its most important principles” …
- Iran, Turkey, and Saudi: The Regional Race for the Arab Spring (Madawi AlRasheed)
… and those who “say the Arab Spring [read: political Islam] is a threat to the world” have been “conditioned to view Islamism with anxiety since the Iranian revolution” but it is dictatorship rather than “political Islam which has been unstable…. Reliance “on the Shah and Mubarak to provide stable allies in the Middle East … was shown to be an illusion”:
- This House Believes the Arab Spring is a Threat to Global Stability (Huffington Post)
A comprehensive analysis of the elections in which not a single woman, not among the incumbents was elected amid worries “about the rising trend of sectarian agitation, derogatory, anti-tribal rhetoric, sexist discourse, and violent clashes among competing camps”:
- The Identity Politics of Kuwait’s Elections (Foreign Policy)
- Egypt Top Islamist Group May Vote Against $3.2 Billion IMF Loan (Business Week)
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