Strolling the Islamsphere

November 07

Right: Pakistan under emergency law (this is a charming expression that essentially means codified autocracy; Egypt has been under emergency law for twenty years), Mubarak jailing police officers for torture and then asking that foreign powers (read: the US) not interfere in the politics of the City Victorious, and bombings targeting politicians in Afghanistan. Here’s how the Islamsphere is covering things:

Aziz has a comprehensive roundup on the unfolding situation in Pakistan.

Taking a more literary view, Muse posts an appropriate poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and laments that she’s chosen to spend the past few months in Cairo and not in Lahore (personally I’m glad, because if she had she’d be in jail right now and we’d have to call in the media calvary).

Ali is setting a land-speed record for typing by writing for Jewcy, his own blog, and new site Pakistanpolitics.net. Simultaneously.

Yahya Birt analyzes the current dialogue about Wahhabism.

This is interesting as well.