Archive for 'International Affairs'
First Amendment Hypocrisy: Tarek Mehanna is no David Stone.
David Stone and members of his Hutaree anti-government militia amassed a huge arsenal of weapons, including the ingredients for explosives, and allegedly plotted to kill a police officer and bomb his funeral. A federal judge in Michigan [...]
Israel Calculates – No Intifada in 2012
Ramzy Baroud When will the Palestinians revolt? The answer, according to an Israeli official: not this year (as quoted by Agency France Press). An internal Israeli Foreign Ministry report last month also concluded that a third [...]
Sad Week of Civilian Casualties, and Clinton adds Insult to Injury
Hodan Yusuf Last Sunday, many civilians in Afghanistan were shot dead in their sleep at point blank range by a US serviceman who had gone on a ‘killing spree’. There were reports from some eyewitnesses that [...]
Hamas: Between Politics and Principles
Ramzy Baroud Despite all of Hamas’ assurances to the contrary, a defining struggle is taking place within the Palestinian Islamic movement. The outcome of this struggle – which is still confined to polite political disagreements and [...]
My Fickle Friends – by Bashar al-Assad
How fickle friendship can be. After all the years of close co-operation, the dinners out together, the help we provided, and the dirty work we did for them, its come to this. Yesterday I was a [...]
The Arab spring to Caliphate – Echoes of a medieval polemic
Hasnet Lais The Arab Spring, dubbed ‘a grotesque verbal distortion of the great Arab/Muslim awakening’ by The Independent’s Robert Fisk, has undergone a paradigm shift in the Egyptian context. The recent victory of the Muslim Brotherhood [...]
The Rochdale Grooming Case Confronted
A well articulated and thought provoking piece of writing. I agree, th
An open letter to Rashid al Ghannouchi
Yazaak Allahu khayran.
The Politics of Tribulation
the problem with the ikhwan movement is lack of ideological premises,
An open letter to Rashid al Ghannouchi
I think the ending would have been much better if the writer avoided t
Atheism in the dock
Mr Badar, I agree with you entirely that atheism has many problems;