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Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian political veteran who helped build the Pakatan Harapan coalition that swept to power in elections last week, has been freed after being jailed during the tenure of the scandal-haunted deposed premier Najib Razak. The 70-year-old, who was granted a full pardon by the country's King Muhammad V. Anwar, had been serving a five year jail term -- his second prison sentence in two decades -- for a sodomy conviction he says was trumped up... "He is not a member of government, therefore his role will be in the party," Mahathir said, referring to the ruling Pakatan...

The White House has appointed pro-Muslim Brotherhood Robert Malley as a new special assistant to President Barack Obama. As if this is not bad enough, Malley is in charge to cover the whole kitten caboodle: The Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf region. This appointment happens to be at the same time that Erdogan of Turkey and Qatar had a millstone breakthrough in reviving the Muslim Brotherhood by gaining special provisions for the Islamist organization in Saudi Arabia and the Arab gulf. Malley, who now works as Senior Director of National Security Council of the White House (NSC) on...

A court decision upholding Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction on sodomy charges raises “serious concerns about rule of law and the fairness of the judicial system in Malaysia,” the White House said Tuesday. The relatively rare public rebuke over a foreign criminal conviction came despite warming relations between the U.S. and the Malaysian government. President Obama visited the country last year, the first sitting president to do so in nearly half a century.

Malaysia’s sophisticated radar system would have immediately detected Flight MH370 as it crossed the country’s mainland after changing course and should have alerted the air force, Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader, has claimed. Malaysia’s government is deliberately concealing information that would help to explain what happened to missing Flight MH370, the country’s opposition leader has claimed. In a wide-ranging interview that cast doubt on the official investigation into the disappearance of the plane, Anwar Ibrahim said the country’s “sophisticated” radar system would have identified it after it changed course and crossed back over Malaysia. Mr Anwar, who personally knew the...

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/26/05) - CAIR is pleased to announce that former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will be the keynote speaker at its “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies” conference in Washington, D.C. Ibrahim will speak at the May 14th conference banquet. WHEN: Friday, May 13 to Sunday, May 15, 2005 (Conference Banquet, Saturday, May 14) WHERE: Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner, 8661 Leesburg Pike ~ Vienna, VA (703-448-1234) To view a complete conference program or to register online, go to: http://www.cair-net.org/2005conference/ CAIR's 2005 annual conference brings together scholars, researchers, religious leaders, and community activists to discuss issues related...

WSJ:Commentary Muslims Must Reform -- Or Be Left Behind By ANWAR IBRAHIM Affirmations of brotherhood and lamentations over the elusiveness of a long-sought fraternity are two perennial themes of modern Muslim rhetoric. It seems that no summit would be worthy of the name unless such sentiments were somehow woven into the agenda. The 10th summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference to be held outside Kuala Lumpur later this week will probably be no different. Few will be surprised if the opulence of the conference venue is matched by an appalling poverty of ideas on how to cure the...