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Islam in Bosnia Just as Europeans were being invited to vote in the E.U. elections, Vivienne Walt in her article "Islamic Revival" reminded us of the civil war that this same E.U. allowed to happen in the 1990s [June 15]. It is not surprising that Muslim opportunists took advantage of the situation by supporting the development of their faith. It is important that we Europeans remember and reflect on what happened in the Balkans during the war whenever we go to the polls. Alvin Panjeta, PARIS...
...guard who at first thought he was the attacker. And all that was compounded by the initial lack of a formal apology from Germany. (On Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered her condolences to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the G-8 summit in Italy.) "Had the Muslim been the aggressor as the guards initially thought, the story would have made headlines ... It would have perfectly fitted into the promoted image of Muslims being aggressive, barbaric and uncivilized," wrote a columnist in Egypt's main English-language daily, Daily News Egypt...
...that the family would "avenge her killing" and the Sheik of Al-Azhar, one of Egypt's top government-sponsored religious authorities, called for the maximum punishment for Sherbini's murderer. The Egyptian Pharmacists' Syndicate has even suggested a boycott of German drugs. (See TIME's photos of the Muslim world...
...more salient than the women's-dress issue is the manipulation of Sherbini as a symbol of Islam in a perceived standoff between the Muslim world and the West. "She is a martyr of Islam, and justice will be served on the day of judgment," wrote one man on the wall of another Facebook group, Marwa El-Sherbini "Muslim Martyr." Even Iran, Egypt's traditional adversary, has joined the fray, holding a symbolic funeral for Sherbini in Tehran on Friday and summoning the German ambassador to the Foreign Ministry to hear Iran's formal protest over the attack...
...like-minded Obama Administration to have more of a say on a vast array of foreign policy challenges. Among other issues touched upon was the West's relations with Islam, and the White House noted that they spoke about Obama's recent speech in Cairo directed at the Muslim world...