Young recruits to the Muslim Brotherhood seek to reform its educational system in order to promote “women’s rights, religious freedom and tolerance:”
While sectarian violence continues to trump itra-faith integration …
- Attacks Belie Steps on Reconciliation: Suicide Bombs at Shiite Mosques, Shooting of Sunni Family Come a Day After Sects Pray Together (Washington Post)
- An Uncertain Future for the Sons of Iraq: Iraq’s Shiite-led Government Has Begun Taking Control of the Anti-insurgent Sunni Fighters Who Have Helped Improve Security Across the Country (Christian Science Monitor)
… U.S. policymakers delude themselves into thinking propaganda will cause Iraqis to forget the reality in which they live:
- U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media (Washington Post)
As Ali Kordon’s phony Oxford degree raises “questions about the qualifications of Ahmadinejad’s inner circle,” …
.. the U.S. belatedly allows one American group to take up Iran’s standing offer of people-to-people dialog:
A spokesman for the “Islamic Courts” movement says, “It is a crime to take commercial ships but hijacking vessels that carry arms for the enemy of Allah is a different matter” …
- Pirates, Warships Continue Tense Standoff near Somali Coast (Christian Science Monitor)
… even as the group alienates the populace it professes to defend by shutting down mosques and destroying a church:
As occasional terrorism turns into full-scale war, about 20,000 desperate people scramble “over the border from the Bajaur tribal area to seek safety in Afghanistan:”
“People that break up make bitter enemies,” opines Islamist Hassan Turabi of the U.S. brokered coalition:
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