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Micah HalpernFinally 2 Muslim Leaders Raise Their Voices

Finally.
Muslim leaders are beginning to speak out and condemn the wave of "extremist" destruction and anger that has enveloped the Muslim world this past week. Until now Muslim leaders have been silent, complicit and even sponsors of the riots. Hassan Wirajuda, the foreign minister of Indonesia - the most populace Muslim country in the world - condemned the violence and called for a stop to the rioting. Mohammed Usman, a Muslim leader in Afghanistan and a member of the highly respected Ulla Council said "we condemn the cartoon ... but these rioters are defaming the name of Islam." The rioting in countries with large Muslim populations is divided into three.
the color green* Western democracies like Denmark, Germany, Belgium and France. The Muslim press and Muslim leaders are using free speech to stoke the flames and ignite anger. These riots are under control because the police are on hand.

* Liberal Muslim monarchies and dictatorships like Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. These governments are protesting publicly to Denmark about the cartoons and have made known their stand permitting them to now tacitly allow rioters to take to the streets under hidden control with the police nearby.

* Harsh Muslim dictatorships like Syria and Iran. Here the protests are actually organized by the state and controlled by the police. The state controlled press is fueling the public and urging their citizens to take to the streets to protest the West. This is revolutionary.


 

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Germany Releases 9-11 Terrorist
 

The only person to be convicted for his role in 9-11 was ordered to be released from a German prison yesterday. He was serving a 7 year sentence.

It is quite a saga.
Mounir el Motassadeq from Morocco was arrested, tried, convicted and then released when his sentence was overturned. Then he was tried again, convicted again and now released again. No reason has been given explaining the release. The 31 year old Moroccan has been convicted twice for being a member of a terrorist organization. He admits that he was friends with the terrorist cell in Hamburg but will not elaborate on the relationship. We know that his role included paying the tuition for the 9-11 terrorists that allowed them to remain in Germany posing as students but really planning the mother of all terrorist attack against the West. This reads like a comedy, plays like a circus, and is a real life sham.
Something is wrong in Germany.
 

Carrot & Stick Iran
 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has spelled out his country's plan for dealing with Iran and with Iranian nuclear aspirations. Lavroy made two important statements: "I think that at the current stage, it is important not to make guesses about what will happen and even more important not to make threats." "...what we must underline is that there are the decisions of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN Security Council has been informed and will not take any action in the immediate future." Russia wants to appease Iran.  Russia does not want to threaten Iran or to jeopardize Russian interests in Iran. The United States believes in applying threats and pressure. The United States believes in pressuring even to the point of threatening the use of force.

To my thinking, the best way of dealing with Iran right now would be a combination of Russian and United States techniques. Go with the carrot and the stick method: use Iranian-friendly countries as the carrot applying non-threatening pressure and have the greater international community carry the stick, slamming down hard on Iran if they do not cease and desist.
 

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Micah HalpernREAD MORE ARTICLES BY OUR COLUMNIST, Micah Halpern AT THE WORLD JEWISH NEWS AGENCY WEBSITE. http://www.worldjewishnewsagency.org

1-Iran's Nukes & Russia  2-TERROR: THE FEMALE TOUCH 3-Why the Summit Failed. 4-TODAY GAZA, TOMORROW? And much more. 5-WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO THE UNDERSECRETARY. 6-REFORMING THE UN, IS IT WORTH IT? NEW COLUMN OF THE WEEK

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