tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22494720.post-1143961029704655452006-04-02T08:45:00.000+02:002006-04-02T08:57:09.726+02:00Blogger's Reading this Morning<span style="font-size:85%;">Yemen Observer:</span><br /><a href="http://www.yobserver.com/news_9828.php">The Yemen Observer Fights On </a><br />By Staff Editor Apr 1, 2006 - The Yemen Observer license has been revoked, and hard copies of the newspaper are banned. Private prosecutors have made a series of extreme and irrational demands, from calling for the editor Mohammed Al-Asadi to be executed, to be prevented from ever practicing journalism again. They have demanded the newspaper be closed permanently, and its assets seized. <a href="http://www.yobserver.com/news_9828.php"><span style="font-size:85%;">More ..</span><br /></a><br />As<span style="font-size:85%;">harq al-Awsat:</span><br /><a class="hdlink" href="http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=4357">Afghan clerics say West meddled in convert case</a> MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan clerics blamed meddling foreigners on Friday for the release of a Christian convert who they said should be executed for abandoning Islam. The convert, Abdur Rahman, was spirited out of Afghanistan ... <a href="http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=4357"><span style="font-size:85%;">more</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><a class="hdlink" href="http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=4356">Bush offers quake aid to Iran, but warns Tehran on nuclear issue</a> WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States offered aid to Iran after a devastating earthquake but also kept up pressure over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme. President George W. Bush made a point of offering sympathy and assistance while at a North ... <a href="http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=4356"><span style="font-size:85%;">more</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">IslamOnline:</span><br /><a href="http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-04/01/article04.shtml">French Muslims Get Grand Mosque</a> Hadi Yahmid, IOL Correspondent PARIS, April 1, 2006 - French Muslims in the southeastern city of Villeurbanne will no longer be crammed into vault prayer rooms or perform the weekly Friday prayer in the open as a grand mosque, accommodating 1,000 worshipers, opens its doors on Sunday, April 2. <a href="http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-04/01/article04.shtml"><span style="font-size:85%;">More ..</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Arab News:</span><br /><a class="title1" href="http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&amp;article=80124&d=2&m=4&y=2006">King Vows to Press Ahead With Reforms</a> Raid Qusti, Arab News RIYADH, 2 April 2006 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah said here yesterday that the “Kingdom cannot remain frozen while the world is changing around us,” and vowed to move ahead with... <a class="more" href="http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=80124&d=2&m=4&y=2006"><span style="font-size:85%;">Full Story</span> </a>aboriginalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08434649696181821502noreply@blogger.com