News and Analysis (4/9/12)

Syria refuse to honor its agreement, adding new conditions, and escalating the violence until it spills over the borders with Turkey and Lebanon:

A glaring highlight on the divide between the allies’ respective counter-terorrism strategies:

The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization says that once Iran has enough medical-grade uranium in stock, “enrichment could be dropped it to the 3.5 percent level needed for nuclear power” resolving foreign powers’ concerns  over weapons-grade (90% enrichment) uranium:

Mubarak’s spy chief dismisses the Muslim Brotherhood’s concerns that he threatens Egypt’s revolution, but at least one Israeli legislator openly roots for his victory …

… meanwhile, supporters of the ultra-conservative candidate disqualified because his mother held U.S> citizens protest the immigration documentation is fraudulent, even as other candidates may face similar disqualification …

… and as as the grandson of the MB’s founder argues they lack a “serious set of policies for dealing with Egypt’s stark economic and social problems,” the FJP’s attempts to excuse breaking its promise not to run a candidate for president fail to address the concerns we raised in a recent blog:

Saudi princess calls for a constitution “inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen’s basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law”:

Amnesty International says the pro-democracy demonstrator’s confession was “made under duress, and no evidence was presented showing he had used, or advocated violence,” and his daughter writes that he “told guards ‘If I die, I die with dignity’” and she and her mother are proud and support “him all the way, no matter what he decide[s]”:

“Salah arrived at Heathrow Airport on June 25 and was detained three days later. He later sought damages for unlawful detention, and the High Court ruled that since he was not given “proper and sufficient reasons” for his arrest until the third day of his detention, he should receive damages for that period’

Experts ask if the emergence of the “lone wolf” terrorist might be connected to “estimates that about half of French inmates are Muslim, far greater than the proportion in the population at large” while “there are only 151 Muslim prison chaplains … compared to 700 Roman Catholic chaplains”:

 


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