Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
October 31, 2011
- Los Angeles Times
LA Times: UNESCO Palestine decision sets off U.S.-U.N. confrontation
A decision by the United Nations' cultural organization to admit Palestine
as a member state set off a confrontation between the U.S. and the
U.N., threatening to strip Washington of influence in several key
international agencies while cutting off a major source of contributions
to the world body.
October 27, 2011
- The Daily Star
Daily Star: Dim prospects for Syrian dialogue
An Arab League delegation tasked with restarting dialogue
between President Bashar Assad’s government and the country’s diverse
opposition to end the country’s eight-month crisis arrived in the
capital Damascus Wednesday.
October 25, 2011
- Common Ground News Service
Common Ground: Women of the Arab Spring: their issues are everyone’s issues
The capture and killing of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi,
on-going demonstrations for an end to the oppressive reigns of Yemen’s
Ali Abdullah Saleh and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and new elections in
Tunisia show that one thing has not changed in the Arab Spring – change
itself.
October 24, 2011
- The Weekly Standard
Weekly Standard: The Pakistan illusion
During his four-year tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Admiral Mike Mullen embodied the quiet professionalism of the American
officer corps.
October 24, 2011
- The Irish Times
Irish Times: Sharia law surprise for secular-minded Libyans
Libya's interim authorities formally declared liberation yesterday
with soaring speeches that praised their revolution’s victory over
tyranny, paid tribute to the fallen and offered clues as to what kind of
state might emerge from the ashes of Muammar Gadafy’s idiosyncratic
rule.
October 23, 2011
- Newsweek
Newsweek: For king or for country?
Awn Khasawneh faced one of the most difficult choices of his life last
week: jump into a political minefield by becoming the prime minister of
Jordan or stay on at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where he
was on track to lead the body, potentially becoming only the second Arab
judge in history to take up the vaunted position.
October 22, 2011
- The Economist
Economist: The Islamist conundrum
The Casbah in Tunis’s Old City, hard by the ancient Az-Zaytouna
mosque and university, is where the Turkish bey once exercised a shaky
control over his militias.
October 20, 2011
- News Core
News Core: Pakistan overturns ban on booze . . . for export
IT IS an Islamic republic where
alcohol is forbidden to 97 per cent of the population and drinkers can
face 80 lashes of the whip under holy law - but in a move set to anger
religious conservatives, Pakistan is poised to become an exporter of
beer.
October 20, 2011
- The New York Times
NYT: Opinion: Iran, the Saudis and the new 'great game'
Whether the Iranian government actually sought to hire Mexican gangsters
to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder asserted at a dramatic press conference last week,
remains uncertain.
October 18, 2011
- The Associated Press
AP: Thousands celebrate freed Palestinian prisoners
Tens of thousands of flag-waving Palestinians celebrated the
homecoming Tuesday of hundreds of prisoners exchanged for an Israeli
soldier, with the crowd and a freed Hamas leader exhorting militants to
seize more soldiers for future swaps.
October 16, 2011
- Newsweek
Newsweek: Intolerant Arab spring
The recent clashes in Cairo between peaceful Coptic protestors and Egyptian
security forces are only the latest sad example of an old and recurring
phenomenon: persecution of native non-Muslim minority communities in
the world of Islam.