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Iranian Dissident Says

artappraiser — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:40:13 +0000

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Iranian Dissident Says Planned March Will Test Regime
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, New York Times, February 8, 2011

Mehdi Karroubi, an Iranian opposition leader, said Tuesday that a demonstration planned in Tehran next week, nominally in solidarity with the protest movements in Egypt and Tunisia, was a test both for the Iranian government and its opponents.

Since Tehran is painting events in Cairo and elsewhere as the long-awaited regional blossoming of its own Islamic Revolution, to deny a permit for such a march would show that its position in support of the Arab movements is fake, Mr. Karroubi said in a rare interview from Tehran, conducted via an Internet video link.

For the Iranian opposition, events in Cairo mirror the post-election protest movement in Iran in 2009, not the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and could give new life to the Green movement for political reform, which Mr. Karroubi said had largely been battered into submission by government oppression....

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/world/middleeast/09iran.html?ref=today...

Ian Buruma:Where are the

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:04:26 +0000

In reply to Muslim Brotherhood rejects Khamenei calls for Iran-style Islamic state

Ian Buruma:

Where are the Islamists?
By Ian Buruma, 08 Feb 2011 13:57 GMT
The West must accept the results of elections if it wants to avoid marginalisation and radicalisation of opposing views.
This article was first published by Project Syndicate.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/20112883255532796.html

It's out there. For one quick

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:53:27 +0000

In reply to As someone who doesn't follow

It's out there. For one quick example:

MIDDLE EAST: Ignoring Egyptians, Iran continues to hail 'Islamic awakening'

February 8, 2011

Both the Egyptian foreign ministry and the opposition Muslim Brotherhood have said the popular protest movement sweeping the country has nothing to do with Iran, or Islam.

But that hasn't stopped Iranian officials from continuing to try and cast the uprising as an "Islamic awakening" in the tradition of their own 1979 Islamic Revolution.....

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/02/middle-east-iran-h...

But Iran is really pushing it, pushing their alternative universe propaganda. This is Iranian state media:

Muslim Brotherhood hails Leader's support
Tehran Times, February 8
A senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has expressed gratitude to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei for his support of the Egyptian revolution.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=235393

Also, it's probably wise to keep in mind that the Muslim Brotherhood itself is factional, with the less conservative youth more likely to be the ones who are updating their website. And also it's probably wise to keep in mind that there is a difference between things like wanting civil law to reflect sharia law and wanting clerics to be part of government. And in the case of the latter, some westerners might not agree that there is a difference, where what you refer to "MSM" trying to explain that kind of nuance is a lost cause.

One thing people allegedly

acanuck — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:34:16 +0000

In reply to Whither the Muslim

One thing people allegedly worried about a new govt. "imposing" sharia don't seem to realize: the Egyptian constitution already declares sharia to be the basis of the country's laws. If I'm not mistaken, that amendment was enacted by the Mubarak regime in 2005 or 2007.

Whither the Muslim

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:03:42 +0000

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Whither the Muslim Brotherhood?
By TARIQ RAMADAN | GLOBAL VIEWPOINT
I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor, February 8, 2011

OXFORD, ENGLAND —

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/opinion/09iht-edramadan09.html

As someone who doesn't follow

Verified Atheist — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:01:26 +0000

In reply to Muslim Brotherhood rejects Khamenei calls for Iran-style Islamic state

As someone who doesn't follow the MSM very much, does anyone have a feel for the likelihood that they'll disseminate this message?