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That said, I was somewhat intrigued by the prospect of J.R. Ward’s “Lover Eternal,” another addition to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. “Lover Eternal” chronicles the passionate affair between the vampire Rhage and the cancer-stricken human Mary Luce—it’s “Love Story” with fangs...
...fact, while in Egypt, she says she intends to express her disappointment that Egyptian leaders postponed municipal elections after the Muslim Brotherhood made a strong showing in parliamentary elections in December. She plans a high-profile meeting in Cairo with Egyptian opposition figures to make the point that, as she put it last week, "Egypt... needs to keep pushing ahead on the democratic course, because it is a great civilization and a great people and it can lead the democratic progress in the Arab world and I would hope that it will do that...
...rewarding fundamentalist groups that have little interest in tamping down anti-Western attitudes. The popularity of Islamists may be discomfiting to the West, but it increasingly seems to be the bargain required for implanting democracy in the Islamic world. Says Mohammed Abdel Koddus, a member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: "People are looking for alternatives, and the only alternative they see is Islam...
...Religion (AAR) as it challenges the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department over the visa revocation of high-profile Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan. The academy is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this law to censor and manipulate political debate,” said Eck, the Wertham professor...
Virtually no one foresaw Hamas' surge. Pre-election polls generally gave Hamas, which was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, about a third of the vote. But when election day dawned, voters leaped at the chance to rid themselves of the incompetent and corrupt Fatah. "It's not that we love Hamas, but we didn't want Fatah anymore," says Samer Bafrawi, 26, a West Bank restaurateur. "It's a bad organization"--bad enough that he voted for the Islamists even though he says he is "not really religious at all." It was Hamas' commitment...