Violence erupts as Vice President al-Hashemi accuses President al-Maliki of aspiring to be Iraq’s new dictator:<\/p>\n
“Sixteen Muslim preachers from a moderate sect were shot dead in central Mali as they traveled by road to a religious conference…. Early reports indicate that the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long beards aroused the suspicion of Mali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s military, which confused them for the extremists who have taken over the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s north”:<\/p>\n
During his previous visits to Syria – in March and May \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jacques Beres, co-founder of medical charity Medecins Sans\u00c2\u00a0Frontiers\u00c2\u00a0said he had dismissed suggestions that the rebels were dominated by Islamist fighters but he said he had now been forced to reassess the situation:<\/p>\n
“Muslims are being seen as an impossible-to-integrate, fast-reproducing invasion force who follow a religion that’s more an ideology of conquest than a faith. Using the latest facts and figures,” Doug Sanders demonstrates “the far less alarming truth about these new arrivals”:<\/p>\n
“Although Afghan President Hamid Karzai has hailed the handover, disagreements with the US remain.\u00c2\u00a0Washington is insisting that it will maintain control over some detainees in the prison”:<\/p>\n
The “chief negotiator of the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front, said more than 50 percent of the issues being tackled by the rebels and government negotiators in Malaysian-brokered talks have been settled in principle” and “President Benigno Aquino III has expressed hope that a peace pact can be signed as early as December”:<\/p>\n
The increased political involvement of American Muslims draws advocates from both sides of the gay marriage debate::<\/p>\n