“At the Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem they fear the next administration will … [lead] to a more aggressive policy of settlement building in the West Bank, and a less peaceful stance towards Gaza” …<\/p>\n
… and as “a parable of the Palestinian predicament in their own homeland, ‘Cyber Palestine’ captures the quintessence of the story of the birth of Christ under military occupation of the Romans then and the Zionists now” …<\/p>\n
… while in Pakistan, “early this month, … extremist leaders were arrested and charged with various offenses, belatedly signaling that religious minorities \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the law \u00e2\u20ac\u201d were to be respected”:<\/p>\n
“A large number of my classmates … are non-Muslims, we are still friendly to this day as a family, and frequently contact each other and meet for reunions.\u00c2\u00a0Differences of opinion are a blessing in Islam”:<\/p>\n
Edalat, who “returned to the UK last week…, ironically, had been a campaigner against US sanctions against the Iranian regime, and his detention appeared to be based on a misunderstanding”:<\/p>\n
A Christian writer suspends disbelief to read the Qur’an “on its own terms” and Juan Cole “portrays Islam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founder as a peacemaker who wanted only to preach his monotheism freely and … [sought] ‘multicultural’ harmony”:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Iran has no substantial influence over the Taliban to help bring the group to negotiations,” but then neither has the U.S.:<\/p>\n
The Saudi “proxy war against Iran in Yemen “has bled the kingdom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coffers, left large numbers of an already impoverished country facing malnutrition and disease,<\/a> and done little … to ward off its arch foe”:<\/p>\n\n\n Opponents of the criminalization men who engage in instant unilateral divorce say it violates “Article 25 of the Constitution on ‘freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Iran began selling crude oil to private companies for export in late October, just ahead of U.S. sanctions on sectors including oil which came into effect in November”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n