Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Egyptian human rights activist FOR Hussein Shobokshi, President of the Hussein Shobokshi Organization AGAINST Rime Allaf, Broadcaster and consultant on Middle East affairs FOR Adel Darwish, Journalist and broadcaster AGAINST
Tarek Heggy, Author and commentator FOR Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia 1981-2003 AGAINST Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster FOR Laith Shubeilat, Former Jordanian politician AGAINST
Mohammed Al Douri, Former representative of Iraq to the United Nations FOR Clare Short, UK Secretary of State for International Development 1997- 2003 AGAINST Patrick Theros, U.S. Ambassador to Qatar 1995- 1998 FOR Abdel Bari Atwan, Editor in chief, Al-Quds Al-Arabi AGAINST
Flynt Leverett, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy FOR Ghassan Khatib, Minister of Labor, Palestinian Authority AGAINST Alastair Crooke, Co-founder, Conflicts Forum FOR Rabbi Michael Melchior, Israeli Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Sport AGAINST
Fouad Ajami, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies FOR Ghayth Armanazi, Chairman, Arab International Media Forum AGAINST Salameh B. Nematt, Washington, D.C. bureau chief, Al-Hayat FOR Azzam S. Tamimi, Director, Institute of Islamic Political Thought AGAINST
Anas Altikriti, Founder, Muslim Association of Britain FOR Feisal Abdul Rauf, Imam of Masjid al-Farah in New York City AGAINST Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina FOR Ramzi E. Khoury, Strategic communications consultant, journalist and columnist AGAINST
Toujan Faisal, First woman elected to the Jordanian parliament FOR Sheikh Jihad Brown, Islamic scholar AGAINST Tareq Mohammed Al Suwaidan, Presenter of Islamic television programmes FOR Khola Hassan, Author and outspoken figure on women in Islam AGAINST