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This isn't anything new for the Brotherhood. The group has been banned since 1954, but its popularity - derived mainly through Islamic charity work, calls for political reform and appeals to Muslim religiosity - makes it especially threatening to the authoritarian regime of President Hosni Mubarak. Even so, the Brotherhood has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's Crackdown: When a U.S. Ally Does the Repressing | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

First the country went through histrionics as parliamentarians bustled to ban the niqab - the face-covering garment that only a few hundred Muslim women wear in this nation of 65 million people. Then came President Nicolas Sarkozy's push for a debate on national identity, a move that critics claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halal Burgers? Another French Brouhaha Over Islam | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Unsurprisingly, Marine Le Pen, vice president of France's far-right National Front Party, whose power base lies near Roubaix, has been quick to jump on the issue. France, she says, needs to be defended from Islam's growing influence. Quick's halal option is "an Islamic tax" on diners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halal Burgers? Another French Brouhaha Over Islam | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

The Steve Irwin was later joined by two more vessels from the Sea Shepherd's fleet: The high-tech stealth boat Ady Gil, which sunk in the Southern Sea following a collision with whaling boat on Jan. 6., and the Bob Barker, a ship that survived a collision on Feb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia to Japan: Stop Whaling, or Else | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

In the ongoing tumult of Iranian politics, Ayatullah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has made few public pronouncements - even though he is said to be the main guiding force behind the scenes for those in the regime who are opposed to the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, and President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rafsanjani Raises Hopes for a Compromise in Iran | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

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