Greater Middle East
Islamists, labor protest in Jordan
Hundreds of Islamists demonstrated in Jordan to demand faster political reform after an election weeks earlier that produced a mostly pro-government parliament.
Tag: struggle within Islam
North Africa
Al-Qaeda ‘moderates’ seek breakaway state in Mali
A supposed AQIM document found in Timbuktu criticizes jihadists for destroying Sufi shrines and alienating the local populace, calling for a more pragmatic Islamist state.
North Africa
Tunisia: new protest amid political crisis
More than 3,000 Tunisians, led by the father of assassinated opposition figure Chokri Belaid, marched through the capital in a protest against the government’s “slow” investigation.
North Africa
General strike rocks Tunisia
Thousands massed in Tunis for the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, with the city shut down in a general strike called by the main union federation, the UGTT.
North Africa
Tunisians protest Islamist counter-revolution
Tunisia’s Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced that he will dissolve the Islamist-led administration and form a new “technocrat government” as protests rock the country.
South Asia
Bangladesh tribunal: Islamist leader gets life
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah, leader of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami, to life in prison over crimes related to the 1971 war.
North Africa
Mali: French fight Tuaregs in Kidal?
With French forces carrying out air-strikes in preparation for an advance on Kidal, it remains unclear if the remote town is under the control of jihadists or Tuareg separatists.
North Africa
Jubilation in Timbuktu —and ethnic cleansing
Amid music and celebration in northern Mali since a French-led advance swept the jihadists from power, come growing reports of Tuareg and Arab residents forced to flee in reprisals.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: death sentences for anti-Muslim ‘film’
An Egyptian court upheld the in absentia death sentences of seven Coptic Christians and a US preacher on charges stemming from the amateur anti-Muslim film Innocence of Muslims.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: Ikhwan Holocaust denial abets Zionists
Fathi Shihab-Eddim, a senior aide to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, spews Holocaust-denying malarky—seemingly oblivious to how he legitimizes Zionist political logic.
North Africa
Mali: fleeing jihadists burn Islamic manuscripts
Jihadist forces upon fleeing Timbuktu for the desert torched the Ahmed Baba Institute—a library housing a priceless collection of centuries-old Islamic manuscripts.
Iran
UN urges Iran not to execute Ahwazi activists
A group of independent UN human rights experts urged Iran to stop the execution of five activists who worked for the rights of the Ahwazi Arab minority in the country’s west.