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...Hadith as documents of liberation, gay Muslims working out a theology that embraces homosexuality or even the millions of Muslim youths trusting Islamic chat rooms - which one British Muslim leader has dismissed as "Sheik Google" - over the local imam, they, like Muslim punks, are expressing a growing dissent with the Islamic world's mainstream theologians...
...Last week's moves, part of a broad effort to quell dissent following June's disputed election, also included a reported assault on Ebadi's husband and other threats against close relatives. "In the past, there were red lines people believed the regime would never cross, but no red lines really exist anymore," says Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "What is to be gained from confiscating Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Prize or assaulting her husband? It's almost as if Iran is trying to parody a gratuitously cruel, dictatorial regime...
...years strangled by red tape and corruption, there is no reason to think it always will be. Just because India's political system is noisy and disaggregated, with power dispersed between the central government and states, does not mean that it can't deliver. "I don't regard dissent and different views as a sign of dysfunctionality," Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the influential deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission, told...
Seiler then took an oral vote to certify the results. According to Osborne, one of the EC members who later resigned, there were no voices of dissent at the time, resulting in a successful certification...
...unfolded. Those messages were then relayed to a broader audience on social networking sites like Twitter, despite its block by China's web censors. While the demonstration was local in nature, the Guangzhou protesters' ability to spread their message so broadly will likely unnerve a government that fears organized dissent...