News and Anlysis (5/8/12)

“Reacting to these provocations with violence is not the way of peace-loving Muslims because it is un-Islamic and moreover plays into the hands of the right wing” — the Central Council of Muslims:

Faithful to Islam’s pro-market and anti-monopoly teachings, Indian Muslim leaders welcome the phase-out of tax subsidies to pilgrims and call for ending Air India’s monopoly on flights so airlines may compete to attract more travelers at lower fares:

“Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahla have been placed in ‘administrative detention’, a controversial practice whereby people can be held without charge or trial”:

“All of the defense counsel, all of the guards and everybody who works in Guantanamo Bay camp has seen me dressed like this. … I never thought in my wildest dreams that this would become an issue” —

“The latest video further identifies Al Qaeda with the kidnapping of the elderly Mr. Weinstein, a dubious public relations strategy, notes the Monitor’s Dan Murphy”:

Former MB deputy supreme guide Mohammed Habib contrasts the current leadership to the organization’s founder “who he said was deeper and more far-sighted” and “more open to making alliances” unlike the current group’s attempts at monopolizing power whether in the parliament, the constitution, or the presidency” …

… while the “religious establishment in Egypt … regards religious interpretation as being the domain of academic specialists, or ‘the learned’ (‘ulama), rather than put into the hands of political activists who would corrupt God’s religion for petty political gain” …

The U.S. called him “the worst of the worst,” but the regime we installed in Iraq says there is insufficient evidence to hold him:

“Military officials receive promises from local village elders that violence will decrease in their towns if certain prisoners are released, and warn the prisoners that if they are caught attacking U.S. troops again they will immediately be detained”:

Public criticism of the king “is unprecedented, and the only way out for the king is to move toward real reform” — Zaki Saad, “a leading figure with the Islamic Action Front, the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan’s most organized opposition movement”:


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