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Obama in Moscow. By Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat

"Western societies are witnessing an escalation of extremism and hatred. At present, Islam and Muslims living in the West are a target." -- Gamal Abdel-Gawad , Nahdet Masr

"El-Sherbini was a victim of hatred and she will not be the last." -- Al-Ahram

"We all know that officials do not have any information regarding the issues of parliamentary dissolution or succession. Nothing is done in Egypt without orders from the president." -- Mohamed Amin , Al-Wafd

"How could the court change into a bloodbath and nobody interfered and how could a trained police officer shoot the victim's husband instead of the killer?" -- Mahmoud Al-Mubarak , Al-Hayat

"The best thing to do at present is to let Fatah and Hamas boycott each other for some time. They should abstain from meeting, shaking hands or issuing positive or negative statements against each other for at least a year." -- Abdel-Rahman Al-Rashed , Asharq Al-Awsat

"As long as Somali citizens are not willing to end it, it is high time for effective intervention by the international community to put an end to the killing and this absurd war that has continued for 18 years." -- Al-Watan