By the controversial move to rush to a vote on the draft constitution today, putting the draft before a public vote within 15 days, the constituent assembly hopes to finesse both judiciary attempts to dissolve the body and Mursi’s polarizing decree immunizing himself from judicial review:
- Egypt to Vote on New Constitution in Effort to Avert Morsi Crisis (Christian Science Monitor)
- Mursi to Speak as Egypt’s Islamists Seek Way Out of Crisis (Reuters / Chicago Tribune)
- Egypt Speeds New Constitution amid Morsy Protests (CNN)
… but a move temporarily “[g]ranting the Shura Council legislative power could cause a backlash on the street”:
- Egypt Fast-tracks Constitution amid Political Turmoil (AlAhramonline)
“I didn’t know that I was breaking the law when I went to the gun range,” he pleads, but prosecuted after blowing the whistle on FBI attempts to recruit him for terrorism, he could land in prison for up to 10 years on an unrelated gun charge, even if “the court discounts most of his prior convictions” and “he could face a minimum of 15 years” otherwise:
- Wilkinsburg Man Accused of Taliban Sympathies Pleads Guilty to Gun Charge (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
CAIR’s “Ibrahim Hooper said it was unacceptable for the Cedar Rapids-based company to be crippled by the seizure of operating funds without being charged with a crime or formally told what the government is investigating”:
Journalists Without Borders accuse Israel of having deliberately targeted journalists and buildings housing “the offices of al-Arabiya, Agence France Presse, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an, and Russia Today, among others”:
- Journalists Demand UN Probe Into Why Israel Targeted Them in Gaza (electronic intifada)
“While the US and Israel have strongly opposed the move, and the UK has said it will abstain from the vote unless Mr. Abbas promises not to use his new status to bring war crime allegations against Israel in front of the International Criminal Court, there appear to be more than enough votes in the UN General Assembly for the motion”:
- Who Backs Palestine UN Bid? Ehud Olmert, Among Others (Christian Science Monitor)
“The ruling puts it in conflict with European Union rules that allow the practice on the grounds of religious freedom”:
- Polish Court Nixes Muslim And Jewish Ritual Animal Slaughter (Huffington Post)
“America’s roughly 2.6 million Muslims are a tiny fraction of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but they took 41 spots on the 500 list”:
- U.S. Dominates List of World’s “500 Most Influential Muslims’ (RNS / Salt Lake Tribune)
- Bosnian Muslims Thrive in U.S. Despite Unease over Homeland (Washington Post)
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