Links January 20th and January 21st

Automatically posted links for January 20th through January 21st:

• al-Qaida Solicits Questions Online – Questions include “why haven’t you opened a new front in Egypt” and more depressing idiocy
• Measuring liberty | When freedom stumbles | Economist.com – Look at the charts: in 1982 Egypt was “partly free,” now it is “not free”
• Economics focus | Selling sex | Economist.com – Interesting article on the economics of prostitution
• HAMAS ASKS EGYPT TO REOPEN RAFAH BORDER – Hamas puts Cairo on the spot
• Translating the Party of God into English – Quilty reviews Hizbullah in translation
• Review: Loaded Dice by Neill Lochery – Debunking of idea that UK Foreign Office is pro-Arab or anti-Israel
• The rise and decline of London as a pan-Arab media hub – Media critic Najm Jarrah
• An Israeli Law for Censorship of Web Comments – Elijah points to a bill in the Knesset that would enable libel laws for web comments
• Why does Johnny come marching homeless? – How Iraq veterans with psychological problems end up homeless
• Those troublesome engineers « Kafr al-Hanadwa – SP has a good post on why engineers are over-represented in Islamist groups