[LINK] Some Saturday Links

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• Phil Hunt at Amused Cynicism reports that Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, arrested for downloading and distrubting a document from an Iranian website arguing Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed, at least won't be executed. Lovely. Nearly 80 Canadians have died for this country because ... ?


• Mark Frauenfelder at Boing Boing blogs about the United Arab Emirate's "very scary drug laws" after the January arrest of a man who was carrying melatonin.


• Edward Hugh at Bonoboland reports about the end of Spain's property- and easy credit-driven economic boom and Spain's need to move beyond that else it become another Italy.


• Centauri Dreams blogs about Project Longshot, an exercise a couple of years ago that speculated about a probe design capable of getting to Alpha Centauri in a hundred years.


• Crooked Timber's Henry Farrell points out that Romney's claim that votes for Obama and Clinton are objectively pro-terror should really take a prize.


• Far Outlier's Joel reproduces an excerpt from a book by Timothy Garton Ash on a 1995 voyage through the depopulated Krajina region of Croatia, once Serb-run but even now without very many Serbs.


• Joe. My. God blogs the Archbishop of Canterbury's recent statements on shari'a law in Britain. I tend to think it a bad idea if any religious law is accommodated to any extent by any state, but, well, just go to his comments. From the opposite end of the social/political spectrum, John Reilly also blogs about that.