Syria rejects the Arab League/U.N. peacekeeping mission; al-Qaeda calls for the overthrow of Asad, but international military action is unlikely:
- Syria Rejects New Arab League Peace Mission Proposal (BBC)
- In Complicating Move, Al-Qaida Backs Syrian Revolt (AP /abc News)
- Syria: Why International Action Remains Unlikely Even as Death Toll Rises (Christian Science Monitor)
- Arab Peace Moves on Syria Herald More Diplomatic Wrangling (Reuters)
“[F]or true religion to thrive, for peoples’ affections to be stirred for their Creator, they needed freedom. Freedom from state coercion. Freedom of conscience…. Freedom to accept religion or reject it. When religion, particularly faith in Christ, is mandated by the state … it lulls [people] into thinking they are truly of Christ when in fact they are not”:
- Why Evangelicals Must Defend Muslims (Huffington Post)
After ten years of reflection on arguments over whether and how to celebrate Valentine’s Day, a Muslim woman decides, “I will make every day in my marital life a celebration of love and good feelings towards my husband and my family”:
The unity government solution reduces Hamas’s position in government form the unexpected big win in the last elections to something more like what it had expected to win:
- Opposition Mounts to Palestinian Unity Deal as Many in Hamas Loath to Give Up Gaza (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
In a move aimed “to help restore stability in the Muslim country ahead of presidential elections due next year [, s]ix members from four political parties were sworn in Sunday as ministers“:
- New President of the Maldives Expands His Cabinet (AP / Eureka Times-Standard)
A regime that considers even Jay Leno dangerously controversial is accused of being “a thin-skinned government that gives in to the demands of violent mobs, ostensibly to make political gains but in fact to suppress its critics,” such as the prosecution FaceBook and Google executives and the cancellation of ” the screening of a documentary on Kashmir”:
- Â India Debates Limits to Freedom of Expression (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
“Authorities in Iran‘s national telecommunications company declined to comment, saying the outage had no connection to them”:
- Iranian Internet Email Access Returns After Mysterious Four-day Outage (Christian Science Monitor)
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