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The Economist (January 23)

2015/ 01/ 24 by jd in Global News

The death of King Abdullah “could hardly have come at a more challenging time for Saudi Arabia.” His successor “King Salman has inherited a realm that is the world’s top oil exporter at a time when prices have plunged; is home to Islam’s holiest sites of Mecca and Medina at a time when jihadist violence is at a peak; and has been dragged into turmoil in the region.”

 

Washington Post (August 21)

2014/ 08/ 22 by jd in Global News

“With each day, the barbarism of the Islamist extremists terrorizing Syria and Iraq becomes more evident—as does the need for the United States and its allies to act more vigorously to block their rise.”

 

Financial Times (November 23)

2012/ 11/ 25 by jd in Global News

“Instead of protecting a revolution,” by usurping power Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi “risks relaunching one.” The largest nation in the Arab world, “Egypt, is the standard bearer for all those who rose up against autocracies.” President Morsi’s “deft handling of foreign affairs has shown that his government can be an effective interlocutor between Middle East and west.” Egypt may help prove the potential of democratic Islam. Still, “as long as there are no checks on his exercise of power, this will be in doubt. The decree should be reversed. Democracy is often noisy, complex and slow. But its processes cannot be usurped.”

 

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