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Western press accounts are focusing on the violence, but Juan Cole says that shouldn’t be allowed to overshadow the significance of
…a coordinated series of peace marches in 53 cities of Pakistan by civil society organization protesting both Taliban bombings, especially the attack on Shiites in Karachi on Monday, and the American drone strikes.
Interesting conversation I was having with another moderate Muslim.
Her point: Mainstream/moderate American Muslims deserve the suspicion of our fellow Americans for having allowed this thing to grow among us that resulted in the violence at Fort Hood and other recent expressions of extremism, for shrinking back from mosque boards and private school committees when those of the puritanical strain among us take them over, for allowing ourselves to be put on the spot at mosque functions and social events instead of turning it around and not putting them on the spot.
Agree or disagree?
New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned this month’s slaying by an alleged insurgent of Laila Paaitae Doah, a prominent peace advocate and Muslim women’s rights activist in Thailand’s violence-torn deep South. Laila was shot by a suspected Muslim militant in broad daylight on March 12 in Krongpenang district, Yala province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok. She died of her wounds in hospital on March 13.
“Laila’s brutal murder is part of ongoing efforts by insurgents to intimidate and attack Muslims who oppose insurgency or have supported Thai authorities,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Her death is a serious loss for those trying to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in the South.”