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June,15-2014 Possibly a hate crime

A man of Iraqi-heritage was shot dead in Home Deport Parking lot in CA Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: According to news outlets a Muslim man of Iraqi heritage was shot and killed in a Home Depot parking lot allegedly because the assailant had “severe hatred” of Middle Easterners and was incensed by the Islamic headscarf (hijab) worn by the victim’s sister.

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Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: An Egyptian teenager who traveled to the United States to take part in a prestigious science fair has decided to seek asylum, saying he fears returning

home after being accused of taking part in anti-government protests in Cairo, his U.S. lawyer said on Tuesday.

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By, Sommer Arekat Last November Mr. Mohammad and Dr. Dina Hamideh met with the president and secretary of the Arizona chapter of the Palestine Children›s Relief Fund with an idea. The couple had a vision of sharing film and art from Palestine with the community here in Scottsdale. Fast forward to last weekend and this idea and dream became a reality at the first annual Scottsdale Palestinian Film and Art festival at Chaparral Suites Hotel in Scottsdale.

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The Islamist stance on Egypt’s presidential elections One year after the failure of their first democratic presidential experience, Egyptians are now witnessing a bitter second episode amid an atmosphere of frustration, trepidation and a loss of confidence.

vote for the only other candidate, Hamdeen Sabbahi, even though they know his chances of winning are low and despite their open hostility towards each other. Their goal is to minimize Sisi’s margin of victory while at the same time preparing for the real fight in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

This instability has been caused by the waves of terrorism, human rights violations, continued economic and political deterioration and a state of polarization resembling that of two years ago. Amid this, the situation of the Islamist current has shifted dramatically. They are in exceptional and unprecedented circumstances, facing loss of popularity, complete exclusion from the political process, and the persecution of their leadership by security forces. The one exception to this remains the Salafi-leaning Nour Party, an ally of the July 3 movement and a main partner in its transitional roadmap.

From an intellectual standpoint, the Salafi current is characterized by a rich variety of religious interpretations within a single school – a trait with both positive and negative implications. The current includes independent members of preachers who prefer to completely withdraw from the scene around them, as well as scattered groups of Salafis.

They will not vote for any of the candidates. The reality is that this current, despite having many opportunities during the past three years, has known nothing but upheavals and massive political and social changes that exceed the ability of any political or ideological group to comprehend, much less cope with. The group’s newness to political activity helps explain the state of its confusion and frustration.

Within this current, the Nour Party is the largest segment and the only organized entity within the Salafi spectrum (the Salafi Da’awa). I believe that this is one of the few parties that moved up the political and social learning curve over the last three years.

The Islamist current can be divided into three parts based on their stance on the presidential elections: first, the Muslim Brotherhood camp (including their allies the Jama’a al-Islamiyya, as well as some non-organized jihadist and revolutionary Salafi groups); second, the Nour party which represents organized Egyptian Salafists, and finally the groups loyal to various independent Salafi ‘ulema.

The Brotherhood members of this first camp likely realize that taking a step back is inevitable after the failure of all attempts to overthrow the transitional authority through internal disruption and external harm. They realize that the passage of time is not in their interest given the steps laid out in the transitional roadmap. They also know that the presidential elections will follow the course of the previous constitutional amendment referendum, with the likely result of the election of former army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as president. The new reality will be cemented even more so than in the past and the group will need to understand this or this historical moment will pass, leaving the Brotherhood in Egypt consigned to a painful history.

The Brussels Charter, in which the Brotherhood called for dialogue with other parties and called on the military to step back from politics, for the first time since June 30 abandoned the illogical demand of returning the ousted president Mohamed Morsi to the presidency, is just the first in a series of steps planned by the group. The Brotherhood is slowly moving back, but not through its leadership of Morsi or even Khairat al-Shater or Mohamed Badie.

Rather, according to younger members of the Brotherhood who have broken away from the group, the organization fears a long-delayed massive internal upheaval that some mid-level Brotherhood leaders are waiting for the right moment to announce.

The Brotherhood announces its boycott of the presidential elections but at the same time will likely send their base to

The Nour Party’s philosophy since July 3, and continuing today, is an attempt to manage the Islamist current’s losses on one hand while also helping to stop the spiral of civil war on the other. Extrapolating from many contemporary experiences, the party was expecting that, regardless of the costs, the Brotherhood would not stop their clash with the state (supported by a large segment of Egyptian society), and this is something that conflicts with the Nour Party’s ideology.

The Salafis were faced with four choices regarding the presidential elections, one of which carried a huge political cost that would impact not only the political future of the Salafis but could also impact their social acceptance for a long time to come. Further, it is not realistic to make any choice that ignores the nation’s current context and changing international circumstances, in addition to ignoring the impact of the year that Morsi spent in power. The choices were: boycotting the elections, supporting Sisi or Sabbahi as candidates, or leaving the party base free to make one of the first three choices. Boycotting is the worst of the four choices because it would not impact, in any practical manner, the balance of power and also carries a political price; thus this choice would stigmatize parties taking this route.

As for giving the choice to the base, this is ultimately an admission of weakness or fear of taking a political decision and puts the responsibility on the public, and thus reduces the influence of the parties making this choice (the leftist-affiliated Egyptian Democratic Party is alone among Egyptian parties taking this step).

The choice was therefore down to whether to support Sabbahi or Sisi, and democratic voting within the biggest decision-making committees in the Nour Party led to a decision to support Sisi over his opponent by a wide margin.

The Nour Party’s voters’ reluctance to support Sabbahi can be understood in light of several points. Most important of these is the complete contradiction between the party’s political and economic ideology with Sabbahi and fear of the leftist current’s hegemony over the levers of power, as the Brotherhood attempted previously. Indeed, the party chose a man like Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the candidate the Nour Party endorsed in 2012, that was not from the same school as that of the Salafis, but at the same time was not blatantly hostile to their orientation. Rather the candidate represented a middle ground between liberals, leftists, and Islamists that can lessen the degree of political polarization and ideological conflict. This is something that Sabbahi lacks. Indeed, the failed Morsi experiment in power was fresh in the minds of those opposed to supporting Sabbahi because they wanted to avoid repeating the same unfortunate scenario where the deep state was reluctant to work under a man without any prior leadership experience and with unknown bona fides outside individual stances of struggle. They were reluctant to repeat the same clash between the leftist current and the institutions of the deep state at a time when the country cannot withstand any new conflict.

Sabbahi’s political discourse was not sufficiently convincing for the Nour party. It seems that Sabbahi himself was more interested in electoral one-upmanship and raising the threshold of electoral competition than in attracting as many political currents as possible to support him.

The choice of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi by the largest segment of Egyptian Salafis in the Nour Party was broadly consistent with the party’s position from July 3 to the present.

In choosing between the two candidates, the Nour party leaders decided to go for the “most suited” rather than their “preferred” candidate.

This “most suited” candidate is capable of dealing with the list of dangers, both current and potential, and passing through them with the least possible damage. In the party’s view, Sisi’s election as president reduces the chances for two dangers – state breakup and state failure – and there is no doubt that he is the most able to avoid these two risks.

This is because his political genes are convergent with those of the state and its institutions, who do not consider Sisi a foreign body to be expelled; rather it is expected that the state, under his administration, will see harmony and coordination between the president and state institutions, and bring the presidency (backed by the army and intelligence) into the predominant position among state institutions, which will be closer assistants to Sisi than anyone else. And thus we avoid the danger of security, economic, and social state failure.

Civilisations in service of humanity Bahrain recently hosted an international conference entitled “All civilisations in service to humanity,” where hundreds of participants from all over the world and different religious and belief systems came together to find ways to talk and achieve peace through debate, dialogue and understanding.

There are many obstacles in our current world that negatively affect dialogue and its benefits. Sheikh Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb called in his speech at the opening session of the conference for a dialogue in the Arab and Muslim world first and then a dialogue between Islam and the West.

It is worth mentioning that there are good examples in Bahrain of encouraging coexistence and tolerance. For example, Pastor Hany Aziz who is the head of the Evangelical Church in Bahrain was granted Bahraini citizenship and he is liked by Bahrainis because of his good work in the country. In ad-

dition, the Bahraini ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alice Samaan, is a Christian.

Those examples and others should be replicated and expanded in Bahrain and other countries since diversity is vital to achieve unity. Pastor Hany told me, “Diversity enriches unity.”

If one looks at the current situation in our world, one can find sectarian wars and violence in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and others locations. Religion is used for political goals and this puts dialogue into a dilemma. It is a complex picture and there is an urgent need to start a real dialogue and find practical ways to put dialogue into practice. Sheikh Khaled Al-Khalifa, the Bahraini justice minister, told me in an interview, “We need to find the common amongst civilisations and belief systems in order to achieve unity and coexistence.” He added that there are differences in the same religions amongst different sects and it is not healthy to be unified in one sect. Differences and diversity is a reality and it is a daunting mission to put differences aside and build unity through diversity.

Getting religious leaders from all over the

world together is itself success where networking and knowing each other is the first step to overcoming stereotypes and prejudice. However, it is not enough to meet and talk. There should be a practical agenda to move forward and go beyond Bahrain to make dialogue the theme of the coming decade. In addition, the Lebanese grand mufti, Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani, said that ethics should be taught in schools to help people to understand each other.

There are many divisions in the Arab and Muslim world. It was mentioned during the conference sessions that it is the responsibility of the Arab and Muslim world to start a dialogue to overcome the deep conflict between Sunnis and Shias and other differences. It is also important to tackle the politicisation of Islam and the violent groups that damage the image of Islam and Muslims. In this context, Sheikh Al-Tayeb proposed that Al-Azhar can continue what started in Bahrain. Because of the position of Al-Azhar in the Muslim world, it will be a vital step to making this conference a success. In addition, the role of education and the media is crucial to promote a culture of dialogue.

Those institutions have a huge audience and

On Egypt and Hamas It is without doubt the Palestinian question that has suffered most from the popular uprisings that shook — and still shake — several Arab countries, particularly the central states of the political Arab system, Egypt and Syria. Absorbed by its difficult political transition, the government of Cairo, as with Damascus, stuck in an endless civil war, is unable to provide the traditional political attention to the Palestinian cause, left almost exclusively today in the hands of the United States, whose secretary of state, John Kerry, makes several shuttles in the Middle East to advance the moribund peace negotiations without success.

Egypt and Syria traditionally played central roles in the Palestinian question, albeit in opposite directions. Cairo remains the main support and mentor of the moderate Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, who also enjoys the support of Saudi Arabia and Western states.

Syria, by contrast, alongside Iran and Qatar, supported the Islamist Hamas, the rival of the Palestinian Authority. Although the Palestinian cause is suffering, as a whole, the impact of the “Arab Spring”, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has the most to suffer from the current regional situation, having lost two main allies: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, after the dismissal of Mohamed Morsi in July, and the regime of Damascus, which broke with

Hamas, following the announcement of the latter’s support for the armed opposition seeking to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad. Islamists in Gaza also lost, in turn, the support of Tehran, a staunch ally of Damascus.

Not only the Islamists of Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, lost the Egyptian ally, but they also are now in the crosshairs of the interim regime in Cairo, which is waging a war without mercy against the Brotherhood, accused of terrorism. Hamas in turn is accused of collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood and of providing them multifaceted assistance in their use of violence. A court decision, announced 4 March, prohibited any activity of Hamas in Egypt, ordered the closure of its offices and the seizure of its assets for its alleged role in the attack on Wadi Al-Natroun Prison and for assisting Muslim Brotherhood leaders to escape during the revolution of 25 January 2011. Following this judicial decision, Cairo would have started to investigate the case of 13,757 Palestinians, the majority of which belong to Hamas, who had obtained Egyptian nationality under the reign of Morsi, for the possible withdrawal of their recently acquired nationality. Hamas representative in Cairo, Moussa Abu Marzouk, vice-president of its politburo, would be also denied the renewal of his stay in Egypt.

Meanwhile, the army, which has conducted for several months a broad campaign in Sinai against various terrorist groups inspired by AlQaeda, has proceeded to close the smuggling tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip that are used by Islamic militants. According to various estimates, some 80 percent of these

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tunnels were destroyed by the army, depriving Hamas authorities of $230 million in monthly revenue collected from this illicit trade.

Egypt appears to want to go further. According to Reuters, citing high Egyptian security officials in January, Cairo, which considers Hamas as a threat to its national security because of its links with the Muslim Brotherhood and jihadist groups in Sinai, intends to undermine the credibility of the movement in the Gaza Strip by supporting its opponents. According to a senior security official quoted by the news agency, Egypt cannot get rid of the terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt without ending it in the neighbouring Gaza Strip.

This growing hostility toward Hamas is not limited to the Egyptian government; public opinion has, in turn, turned largely against the Islamists in Gaza Strip, without however affecting its traditional support for the Palestinian cause. Current conditions, political and security instability and economic decline, has nevertheless relegated the Palestinian question into the background of Egyptian public and official concerns. The Brotherhood-Hamas connection eventually triggered an enmity towards the masters of the Gaza Strip. Hamas officials are now undesirable in Egypt. Since the dismissal of Morsi, none of them set foot in the country.

A major consequence of this quasi-break with Hamas is that Egypt has become disinterested in the mediation it had always conducted between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas towards an inter-Palestinian reconciliation.

No doubt, the current context does not allow a resumption of dialogue with Hamas officials.

By Said Shehata address different types of people.

There are hopes expressed by the organisers and participants that this conference can be a boost for dialogue and building alliances amongst civilisations. There was an agreement that was signed between Bahrain and the UN to spread the culture of dialogue in order to stop violence and killings in the name of religion.

There are other suggestions to follow up what started in Bahrain. Moreover, those conferences and meetings that discuss the importance of dialogue should be held in the six continents in order to raise the awareness of the world that it is time to talk to each other and achieve more cooperation. In this context, Pastor Aziz told me that there will be follow up meeting and conferences to implement the recommendations of this conference. Furthermore, special attention should be directed towards new social media that reaches many people. There is an urgent need to use social media to face the challenges of radical groups. There is a danger if those efforts fail or do not move fast enough, because the alternative is more violence and instability. However, there is hope because people are tired of violence.

By Hicham Mourad Ironically, the hostility displayed by Cairo towards Hamas eventually promoted inter-Palestinian reconciliation. The agreement to form a national unity government signed by Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah with Hamas in Gaza on 23 April, is basically the result of the political and economic weakness of the latter as a result of the regional developments mentioned above.

The quasi-break between Egypt and Hamas at the political level should, however, not affect the Egyptian presence at the security level, in case of a military escalation between Hamas and Israel, or a possible aggression by the Israeli army against Palestinians in the enclave.

Egypt thus intervened on 13 March, while snubbing Hamas, to conclude a ceasefire between Tel Aviv and the Islamic Jihad, a radical Palestinian Islamist group, after the launching of several rockets against the south of Israel following the killing of three activists of the group by the Israeli army. Egypt cannot in fact afford to stand idly by before a possible Palestinian-Israeli military escalation, which could have a negative impact on security in the Sinai Peninsula, already facing a serious terrorist activity.

The firing of rockets against Israel by the Islamic Jihad was indirectly a challenge from the latter to the authority of Hamas, held in check by a truce with Tel Aviv negotiated by Egypt under Morsi in November 2012. The obliged indulgence demonstrated by Hamas to the proIranian Islamic Jihad, the second biggest political force in Gaza Strip, is explained by its desire to reconnect with the Islamic Republic, after losing most of its external allies.

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Egyptian teenage scientist plans to seek asylum in United States Three days later, the gifted 17-year-old contacted officials with the Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and expressed concern about returning to Egypt, according to Chehata, who is a staff attorney with the council.

With the support of his parents in Egypt, Assem decided to stay in the United States and seek asylum, said Chehata, who will represent the boy in his application. He has not yet filed the application with

U.S. immigration authorities.

“It’s unfortunate and it’s very sad to see children with a lot of potential to do a lot of great things, to have that stifled by the government over there for whatever reason and without due process,” she said.

U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp sponsors the annual fair, which is the world’s largest science competition for precollege students, with more than $5 million in awards available for competitors from more than 70 countries.

Muslim Taxi driver attacked in N.Y Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: A hate-filled taxi pas-

senger smashed a Pakistani cabbie in the face with a skateboard after asking the driver his nationality, the driver said After the passenger sat in the cab, he asked the driver about his

country of origin, when the driver said that he was born in Pakistan, the passenger started cursing and banging on the partition A police spokeswoman said the attacker was an African-American man about 5 feet, 11 inches tall. He was wearing a white sweatshirt.

US to provide lawyers for some immigrant children Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: The Department of

Justice said on Friday it will help provide lawyers for the growing number of children coming to the United States illegally, without parents or relatives accompanying them.

The new program, established in conjunction with the agency that administers the AmeriCorps volunteer program, will seek out around 100 lawyers and paralegals to provide legal services to the children, the department said.

“We’re taking a historic step to strengthen our justice system and protect the rights of the most vulnerable members of society,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.

Earlier this week President Barack Obama described the growing numbers of children as an “urgent humanitarian situation,” and put the Federal Emergency Management Agency in charge of coordinating humanitarian relief for them, including housing, care, medical treatment and transportation. The Obama administration estimates that about 60,000 “unaccompanied minors” – children under 18 – will enter the United States illegally

this year. It projects that number to grow to nearly 130,000 next year.

As recently as 2011, the number was only some 6,000.

Senior Obama adviser John Podesta described it as a “heart-breaking situation” at a Friday breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, and said it was another reason comprehensive immigration reform was needed.

The Senate last year passed a wideranging immigration bill with bipartisan backing. It has languished in the House of Representatives, where Republicans are deeply divided on the issue and stress the need for tougher border controls before advancing broader legislative changes.

The minors flooding over the border are often teenagers leaving behind poverty or violence in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. They are sometimes seeking to reunite with a parent who is already in the United States, also without documentation.

The children often end up before immigration courts without legal representation and with little knowledge of English or the U.S. legal system.

US added 217,000 jobs in May; unemployment steady at 6.3 percent Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: U.S. employers added

217,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate stayed at 6.3 percent, according to a report from the Labor Department released Friday.

U.S. employers maintained a solid pace of hiring in May, returning employment to its pre-recession level and offering confirmation that the economy has snapped back from a winter slump.

Despite decelerating from an outsized gain of 282,000 jobs in April – when hiring was still rebounding from a winter lull, May marked a fourth straight month with job gains above 200,000 and an important milestone in the economy’s recovery.

Job gains have now averaged 234,000 in the past three months, up from only 150,000 in the previous three.

Despite the gains, the unemployment rate – which is calculated from a separate survey – remained 6.3 percent.

The job market has reached a significant milestone. Nearly five years after the Great Recession ended, the U.S. has finally regained all the 8.7 million jobs lost in the downturn. Employment has risen by 8.8 million since hitting a trough in February 2010.

However, the population has grown nearly 7 percent since then.

Average hourly earnings, which are being closely watched for signs of how fast labor market slack is easing, rose by five cents last month.

The pace of hiring adds to data ranging from automobile sales to services and factory sector activity that have suggested growth this quarter will top a 3 percent annual pace.

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dragged down by unusually harsh winter weather and a slow pace of inventory building by businesses.

The unemployment rate held steady at a 5-1/2 year low of 6.3 percent, even as some Americans who had given up the search for work resumed the hunt. That was because there was an increase in household employment.

Economists expect more previously discouraged workers to re-enter the labor force over the course of the year. While that would be a sign of confidence in the labor market, it could slow the decline in the jobless rate.

Report on the Palestinian Film and Art festival in Scottsdale By, Sommer Arekat The event featured Palestinian films, one of which had a Q and A session with the film’s producer as well as Palestinian artwork by local vendors. National Public Radio (NPR) was also represented at the festival as well.

All proceeds of the festival went to the PCRF, an international humanitarian organization that is a Charity Navigator 4-star rated, 501c(3), non-profit, non-political, non-religious charity which assists with the medical needs of the children of the Middle East.

The festivals main objective was to showcase the art and culture of Palestine and was clearly met and well received with packed attendance both days. This event could not have been such a success without the hard work and dedication of

Mr. Mohammad and Dr. Dina Hamideh, the AZ PCRF Chapter, the volunteers and Chaparral Suites hotel. Everyone involved in the production of this cultural success is looking forward to making this an annual event.

House votes to prove freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: The House of

Representatives voted Thursday morning to approve what is being called (in the thoroughly unironic way that it has) the USA Freedom Act. The bill as first crafted and still sold, was an attempt to rein in the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection programs — behavior exposed and confirmed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last year. The final vote was 303 to 121.

The legislation, sponsored by one of the original authors of the USA Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc., was originally supported by privacy and civil liberties advocates, as

well as coalition of Democrats and libertarian-minded conservative Republicans as it moved through the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees.

But when the bill hit the Rules Committee, much had changed, reportedly at the request of the White House.

Though never as ironclad a set of protections as House sponsors claimed, previous versions of the USA Freedom Act included some restrictions on bulk data collection and reporting requirements designed to increase transparency and foster oversight.

But the bill as passed defines “bulk” as “nationwide collection,” pointedly leaving open

the possibility that intelligence agencies could still indiscriminately suck up all the metadata in a region, a city, a state or several states under a single court order.

Privacy watchdogs abandoned the bill. “We cannot support a bill that continues to authorize untargeted surveillanceat such a massive scale,” said Harry Geiger, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, long an advocate for better intelligence safeguards, agreed, saying it wouldn’t “support a bill that doesn’t achieve the goal of ending mass spying.”

Man charged with impeding Boston marathon bombing probe Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Federal pros-

ecutors have charged a Massachusetts man with obstructing the investigation into the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.

He was allegedly a friend of the two accused bombers.

Prosecutors said Friday that Khairullozhon Matanov, a 23-year-old taxi driver who lives in Quincy, Mass., is charged with destroying, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation and with making false statements in a federal investigation.

Authorities said that in the days after the April bombings, Matanov realized the FBI would want to talk with him because he knew the suspects and shared their “philosophical justification for violence.” He is accused of deleting information from his computer and lying to investigators.

Prosecutors said Matanov had been friends with accused bombers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and had spoken with both in the days after the blast but lied to police about the extent of his relationship with the pair.

However, Matanov is not accused of participating in the bombings or knowing about them in advance. He was scheduled to appear in court later in the day.

The marathon bombings, which involved a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs, killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died following a shootout with police days after the bombings.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges and is awaiting a trial in which he faces a possible death sentence.

Central American migrants in Texas flown to Arizona and released

The return of discouraged job seekers would be welcomed by the Federal Reserve, which has cited low labor force participation as one of the reasons for maintaining an extraordinarily easy monetary policy.

The labor force increased by 192,000 people in May after declining sharply the prior month. That left the labor force participation rate, or the share of working-age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job unchanged at 62.8 percent.

May employment gains were broadbased. Manufacturing employment increased by 10,000, expanding for the 10th straight month. Further increases are expected as auto sales outpace inventories.

Construction payrolls rose by 6,000. It was the fifth consecutive month of gains, but the pace is slowing.

There were sturdy job gains in leisure and hospitality, and professional and businesses services, as well as healthcare. Government payrolls increased 1,000, the fourth straight month of gains. Retail employment also rose last month.

The length of the workweek held steady at 34.5 hours.

Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Federal authorities

flew 400 suspected undocumented immigrants to Arizona and released them at bus stops, because detention facilities were full in Texas — where the suspects were picked up over the past few days — after a surge in migrants, U.S. officials said.

Over the past month, detention facilities in Texas overflowed for the first time as a large influx of Central Americans crossed the border into the Rio Grande Valley, said Andy Adame, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman in Tucson, Arizona.

“We have enough manpower. It’s due to detention space,” Adame said Thursday, explaining why the immigrants, mostly families with young children, were sent to Arizona.

Many Republicans in Congress and some state lawmakers say the federal government is not

doing enough to secure the U.S.Mexico border, while a number of groups push for policy reform to allow the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country to obtain a pathway to U.S. citizenship.

Many people who cross the border illegally from Mexico are quickly returned by the U.S. Border Patrol, but those from Central America and other regions are supposed to be transferred to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) so they can be flown home.

The 400 migrants who crossed into Texas were transferred into the custody of ICE and released, dropped off at bus stops in Tucson and Phoenix, ICE said.

It said the migrants will be required to report within 15 days to an agency office near where they were dropped off, and their cases will then be handled based on immigration enforcement priorities.

Federal officials under President Barack Obama have focused their immigration enforcement priorities on turning back unauthorized immigrants stopped in border regions and deporting others outside of those areas who are convicted of crimes.

On Tuesday, Obama asked his administration to hold off on making changes to deportation policy until the end of the summer in order to allow Congress time to pass immigration legislation.

Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which calls for restrictions on immigration, said the migrants released in Arizona would likely slip away and be able to avoid deportation if they do not commit any crime.

“Essentially, they have gotten successfully into the country, and it’s unlikely that they’re going to leave,” Mehlman said.

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International & Business

Police probe London sign declaring Islamic area Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: A sign declaring a Lon-

don park to be an Islamic area is being investigated by British police.

The warning, printed on paper and posted in London’s Bartlett Park, reads: “Do not walk your dog here!

Muslims do not like dogs. This is an islamic [sic] area now.”

A council spokesman called the poster “alarming and divisive.”

Jim Fitzpatrick, a local member of parliament, alerted police to the sign after a dog-walker complained, the Evening Standard daily reported.

The politician said he believes the

sign may have been posted by a farright group such as the English Defence League.

“The question is whether it was put up by the EDL to be provocative or by religious zealots to be racist,” Fitzpatrick told the paper.

“It’s another facet of intolerance, or, because there’s no guarantee it was done by Islamists, it could be those in society who are trying to polarize and divide us.”

The sign has been removed, and local police are conducting additional patrols in the area.

Pakistan suspends largest news channel Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Pakistan›s media

regulatory agency on Friday suspended the operating license of the country›s leading news channel for two weeks after a spat between the broadcaster and the country›s top spy agency over the shooting of a leading journalist.

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) suspended Geo News for 15 days and imposed a $100,000 fine. The channel had locked horns with the feared military intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), since anchor Hamid Mir was attacked in the port city of Karachi in April. Mir was shot three times but survived, with his family blaming the chief of the ISI, Gen. Zaheerul-Islam, for the attempted murder.

In response, the channel is now suing the ISI, along with the Ministry of Defense and PEMRA «for defaming and maligning» it and the Jang Media Group, which owns Geo News. The channel said it had also given the ISI 14 days to retract its accusations and issue a public apology – an unprecedented move in Pakistan. Although the country’s media have become increasingly vibrant in recent years, with stories exposing corruption or injustices appearing frequently on the pages of daily newspapers, public criticism of the army and the ISI is taboo.

Mir›s brother, Amir Mir, said Ha-

mid told him before the attack that he felt threatened and that if anything happened to him, the ISI chief «would be responsible.» Geo News broadcast images of Gen. Islam along with the Mir family allegations for eight hours, infuriating the military, which filed a complaint to PEMRA seeking the channel›s closure.

Before shutting down, Geo reported the news of its own license being pulled, along with a graphic showing the Geo News logo wrapped in chains. Viewers then saw a blank screen with the message: «The license of Geo News has been suspended by PEMRA, therefore the broadcast of channel has been terminated.»

Many journalists from the Jang Media Group have reported receiving threats and being harassed following Geo›s row with the ISI. A regional editor of Jang newspaper, the group›s Urdu-language daily, was severely beaten in the city of Multan on Monday after leaving his office.

Geo News is also facing the wrath of the religious community for airing a song-and-dance routine on a breakfast show aired in May. Clerics said it was blasphemous and defamed Islam.

The media group subsequently apologized, a move that was apparently enough to save it from closure but not suspension.

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Famed Syrian storyteller’s life upended by war Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: For

more than 20 years, the Storyteller of Damascus entertained crowds in a centuries-old cafe in the Syrian capital with long, poetic tales of Arab warriors and lovers, acting out scenes with his fists thumping and a sword that he’d swing and slam on a table.

Rashid Hallak was the most famous of the few remaining “hakawatis” in Syria - traditional reciter-performers of old Arab legends.

Now he’s a 70-year-old broken man, his life upturned by Syria’s war.

“I am the Storyteller of Damascus,” Hallak said, chain-smoking, in an interview with The Associated Press in the Syrian capital. “In these events, many people were harmed. I am one of them.”

The war, now in its fourth year, cost him his job and his home, destroyed in shelling. He’s among the more than 9 million people driven from their homes in a war that has killed more than 160,000, leveled parts of cities and unraveled the country’s social fabric with no end in sight as rebels and the forces of President Bashar Assad battle.

Throughout its 300-year existence, the al-Nofara café in Damascus’ stonebuilt Old City has always had a hakawati telling stories in evening gatherings, said the cafe’s owner Mohammed Rabat.

But the art withered as Syrians turned to TV for entertainment. By 1990, the café was scrambling to find somebody, he said.

Hallak was picked because he used to read the hakawati’s books as a child in the al-Nofara café, where his father was a patron. Few people can understand the thick old tomes, with their jumble of Arab dialects, peppered with Turkish.

When asked to work, Hallak was surprised. “Is it possible? People want a hakawati, in this age, when we have gone to the moon? When there is television?’”

Still, he donned the hakawati outfit: baggy pants, a brocade-belt sash, a brimless hat, and settled in the storyteller’s high chair, overlooking patrons in the tiny, smoky, high-ceilinged café.

Locals were delighted by his theatrics as he told stories. The most popular was the tale of the preIslamic hero Antar, son of a black slave woman, famed as a valiant fighter-poet who fought for his beloved, the beautiful Princess Abla. Evenings with the Storyteller of Damascus, as he dubbed himself, were a favorite for tourists, and he appeared on television and performed in theaters.

But the café’s fortunes sagged as the war drove tourists and Syrian customers away. By early 2012, Hallak was reduced to two shifts a week.

Meanwhile, his rural town of Ghouta, east of Damascus, was a contested area, battled over by government troops and rebels - and awash with criminals taking advantage of the war’s chaos. Hallak’s home was looted, and masked men threatened to kidnap his son Shady for ransom.

Shady fled to neighboring Lebanon.

Crossing through rival rebel and pro-government checkpoints in town could be deadly - and Hallak was never sure how to appease each side. Rebels suspected him because the Syrian cultural icon didn’t express support for the uprising. Yet Hallak says he agrees with demands for reform expressed by Syria’s tolerated internal opposition.

stories to a short 15 minutes.

He stopped trying to reach Damascus, ending his shrinking career.

Laham held court on a recent afternoon in al-Nofara, which was nearly empty, with eight men and women smoking waterpipes. With the once deep-into-the-night social life of pre-war Damascus now gone, alNofara gets few patrons and closes down early these days, 8 p.m. maximum, said the owner, Rabat.

Then, his house was shelled last year while he was in his grocery store downstairs, the family’s side income. His house was demolished, and a girl in his shop and young man nearby were killed.

It broke the storyteller.

“When you see a little girl dying of shrapnel, because she is buying something in your shop - what remains of your health?” said Hallak, bursting into tears.

“Everything I had was destroyed,” he said. His family fled, and he has no idea what happened to his possessions - particularly his books, including a rare 30-volume set of Antar’s legends.

Hallak and his wife joined his son in Lebanon. In January, they all returned, moving into an apartment in central Damascus after he was offered a storytelling series on Syrian television.

“Nobody has patience to listen for an hour anymore,” he said, mourning the distractions of the modern age: “Everybody has WhatsApp.” And to his dismay, he discovered he’d been replaced at the al-Nofara by a new hakawati, 55-year-old Ahmad Laham.

The new hakawati looked down from his glasses to read the 13th century tale of Beibars, the hulking blonde Muslim warrior and Mamluk ruler of Egypt who fended off crusaders and the invading Mongol hordes.

Laham sometimes stumbled over difficult words.

The patrons sometimes joined in to recite a wellknown chorus.

Behind Laham, the wall was plastered with images and photos: a younger Hallak; Abu Ahmad, a hakawati who died in 1951; a flamenco dancer and a painting of Abla, the beloved of Antar.

But he has to keep the

Sudan denies mother sentenced to hang to be freed soon Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Suspected Boko

Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women on April 15, the Associated Press reported.

Alhaji Tar, a member of the vigilante groups set up to resist Boko Haram’s attacks, says the men arrived at noon Thursday in the Garkin Fulani settlement and forced the women to enter their vehicles at gunpoint. He says they drove away to an unknown location in the remote stretch of Borno state.

Tar says the group also kidnapped three young men who tried to stop the kidnapping.

Boko Haram wants to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria. Some 275 of the kidnapped girls remain missing.

Villagers bury dead after attack In a related story, more than 100 bodies have been buried almost a week after a Boko Haram attack in northeast Nigeria, Agence France-Presse reported local leaders as saying Monday.

The officials added that many more victims of the attacks had yet to be found.

Lawan Abba Kaka and John Gulla, from Attagara in Borno state, said nearly 110 people had now been interred after Islamist militant fighters stormed the village and at least three others nearby on Tuesday and Wednes-

day last week.

Boko Haram, which kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in Borno in April, has in recent months stepped up its insurgency, with civilians bearing the brunt of the violence.

Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South in Nigeria’s Senate, said burials had taken place in nine villages: 42 in Attagara, 24 in Aganjara and 20 in Agapalwa.

“From what those who fled told us, there are more corpses in nearby bushes and the mountainside,” he told reporters after a meeting in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.

“Many people that fled the communities are also trapped on the hills, as they are without food or water.”

Hundreds of people were feared dead in the attack in the Gwoza district of Borno, with some community leaders putting the death toll as high as 400 to 500, although there was no independent verification of the claim.

Peter Biye, who represents Gwoza in Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament, last week described the bloodshed as “massive” but said exact numbers of dead were impossible to compile because the insurgents were still in the area and locals had fled.

Heavily armed gunmen were said to have killed baby boys being carried on their mothers’ backs and shot down villagers as they tried to flee.

Almashreq editorial staff/ news analyst finder: Sudan denied on

Sunday a Christian Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy would be freed soon, saying quotes attributed to a foreign ministry official had been taken out of context.

Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was sentenced to death on May 15 under the Islamic sharia law that has been in place since 1983 and outlaws conversions under pain of death.

Abdullah al-Azraq, a foreign ministry under-secretary, told AFP and other media outlets on Saturday that Ishag “will be freed within days in line with legal procedure that will be taken by the judiciary and the ministry of justice.”

But the foreign ministry said the release of the 27-year-old, who gave birth to a baby girl in prison on Tuesday, depended on whether a court accepted an appeal request made by her defense team.

A ministry statement said Azraq actually told media on Saturday

“that the defense team of the concerned citizen has appealed the verdict ... and if the appeals court rules in her favor, she will be released.”

Azraq said “the government does not interfere in the work of the judiciary because it is an independent body,” the ministry added.

“Some media took what the undersecretary said out of context, changing the meaning of what he said.”

After Azraq’s comment Saturday, Ishag’s husband, Daniel Wani, told AFP he did not believe she would be freed.

“No one has contacted me and I don’t think it will happen. We have submitted an appeal but they have not looked at it yet, so how is it that they will release her?” he said.

Ishag’s lawyer Mohannad Mustapha had expressed doubts she would be released or that charges against her would be dropped.

“The only party who can do that is the appeals court but I am not sure

that they have the full case file,” he said on Saturday.

Earlier this week, Mustapha said a hearing that was due to take place on Wednesday was postponed because the file was incomplete.

Ishag was born to a Muslim father but said during her trial she had never been a Muslim herself.

The court gave her three days to “recant” her faith and when she refused, Ishag was handed the death penalty and sentenced to 100 lashes for “adultery.”

Under Sudan’s interpretation of sharia, a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man, and any such relationship is regarded as adulterous.

Her case sparked international condemnation, with British Prime Minister David Cameron denouncing the “barbaric” sentence.

Wani, a U.S. citizen, visited Ishag and the baby on Thursday after being denied access earlier in the week and said that both were in good health. www.almashreqonline.com

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Sony call for Qatar 2022 World Cup investigation

99-year-old Arab immigrant in Brazil vows support for Algeria at World Cup

World Cup sponsors Sony have called on Fifa to look into allegations of corruption relating to the awarding of the 2022 tournament to Qatar.

Recent reports in the British media suggested Mohamed Bin Hammam, a former president of the Asian Football Confederation, paid up to €4 million to football officials to drum up support for Qatar’s bid.

Those allegations have been strongly denied by Qatar’s bid committee, who said they “upheld the highest standard of ethics and integrity” throughout the process, but Fifa is currently conducting an investigation into the matter, as well as the decision to award Russia the 2018 tournament.

However, further accusations were

made in the British press on Sunday, and technology giants Sony have become the first sponsors to voice their concerns.

“As a Fifa partner, we expect these allegations to be investigated appropriately,” Sony are quoted as saying in a statement to The Sunday Times.

“We continue to expect Fifa to adhere to its principles of integrity, ethics and fair play across all aspects of its operations.”

Ancient aliens?

No,scientists discover real secret behind Egypt’s pyramids

Considered one of the seven wonders of the world, Egypt’s pyramids have attracted tourists, awe and a fair amount of conspiracy theories as to how the massive structures were built.

Now, researchers from the University of Amsterdam believe they’ve discovered ancient Egyptians’ strategy for transporting blocks of stone across the Valley of the Kings in around 2,000BC: wet sand.

Dutch researchers are concluding that the Egyptians placed heavy objects on a sledge, pulled by hundreds of workers, and simply poured water on the sand in front, CBS News reported on Thursday.

Physicists at the university found out that dampening the sand in front of the transporting device reduces friction on the sled, making it easier to operate and reducing the number of workers needed.

Researchers picked up on clues left behind by the ancient Egyptians themselves; a wall painting discovered in the ancient tomb of Djehutihotep, which dates back to about 1900 B.C., depicts 172 men hauling a large statue using ropes attached to a sledge. A person can be seen standing on the front of the sledge, pouring liquid over the sand, said study lead author Daniel Bonn, a physics professor at the University of Amsterdam, according to LiveScience. com.

The researchers published their findings this week in thejournal Physical Review Letters.

Conspiracy theories on the Pyramids include some people’s belief that aliens descended to help the ancient Egyptian civilization build the structures, with an entire series on the U.S.-based History Channel dedicated to the subject.

While Lebanon will not be playing in the 2014 World Cup, one of its citizens - who is allegedly one of the first immigrants of Lebanese origin in Brazil has vowed to support Algeria, the only Arab country to participate in football’s biggest tournament.

No longer fluent

Adib Daoud, 99, who was born in the town of Jebrayel in Lebanon’s Akkar district, never went back to his hometown since his departure in 1929. He currently lives in the Brazilian city of Uberlândia.

The team, with its nickname of “Verdao” which means green in Portuguese, ironically shares the same color of the Algerian football national team.

“I promise you, I will cheer for it [Algeria], of course… we are Arabs and there’s a blood bond,” Daoud told Al Arabiya News Channel on Monday.

During the interview, Daoud, who insisted on speaking in Arabic even though he is no longer very fluent, said that the Brazilian team Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras was the only team he ever cheered for.

Daoud, who is about to turn 100, has survived both his wife and parents and lives by himself.

He says he spends much of his time sleeping or watching television.

Indian girl, 13, becomes youngest to climb Everest

A social charity says the 13-year-old daughter of poor Indian farmers has become the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest.

Malavath Poorna says she and a team of Nepalese climbing guides reached the summit on May 25 from the northern side in Tibet.

A smiling Poorna told reporters Wednesday in New Delhi that she faced extreme cold, difficult terrain, personal fear and dead bodies on her

journey up the world’s tallest mountain. But she “shed joyful tears” when she reached the top and saw “mighty mountains and morning sunlight” all around.

The Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institution Society said it sponsored Poorna’s expedition as part of its program to encourage underprivileged students.

A 13-year-old boy climbed Everest previously.

Cooking & Recipes Lebanese Fattoush

“Fattoush is a flavorful and rich Lebanese salad.

Pomegranate adds a sweet-and-sour flavor.”

ingredients • 6 lettuce leaves, chopped • 3 cabbage leaves, chopped • 2 small radishes, minced • 1 medium cucumber, diced • 1 red bell pepper, minced • 1 carrot, shredded • 1/4 cup sweet corn kernels • 1 large tomato, finely diced • 1 small onion, sliced thin 2 large cloves garlic, crushed • 12 sprigs parsley, minced • 12 mint leaves, minced • 1/4 cup olive oil • 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds (optional) • 1/4 cup pomegranate syrup • 2 (6 inch) pita bread rounds (optional) • 2 cups vegetable oil for frying (optional)

Preparation : 1- Toss together the lettuce, cabbage, radish, cucumber, red bell pepper, carrot, corn, tomato, onion, garlic, parsley, mint, olive oil, pomegranate seeds, and pomegranate syrup in a large bowl.

2- Heat oil in a deep-fryer or saucepan to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Fry the pita breads until golden in color. Remove to cool on paper towels. Crush the bread into small pieces; sprinkle over the salad.

Persian Yogurt Salad

“This cool, refreshing blend of plain yogurt, chopped cucumber, dill, and garlic is a perfect accompaniment to lamb or rice, or both! Mint may be used in place of the dill.”

ingredients • 1 (32 ounce) container plain yogurt • 2 tablespoons dried dill weed • 2 cloves garlic, minced salt and black pepper to taste • 1 cucumber - peeled, seeded, and • chopped

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Preparation : In a medium bowl, blend yogurt, dill weed, garlic, salt, and pepper. Toss in the cucumber. Cover, and refrigerate 8 hours, or overnight.

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