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Most of the Activists Involved in the Violence On Board the Mavi Marmara are Radical Islamists and Anti-Western

Most of the Mavi Marmara activists belonged to IHH or Turkish local networks affiliated with IHH, most probably Islamist by nature. That conclusion supports a similar conclusion… Continue reading

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Hamas Circumvents France’s Ban on Al-Aqsa TV

On June 7, 2010, the French government instructed its broadcasting authority to terminate the transmissions of Al-Aqsa TV. Hamas activists took immediate action in an attempt to lift the ban… Continue reading

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The Devil in the Detail: Turkey’s Ergenekon Investigation Enters a Fourth Year

July 10, 2010 marks the second anniversary of the publication of the first indictment in what has become known as the Ergenekon case. A total of over 600 suspects have been detained… Continue reading

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The Frightening Truth of Why Iran Wants a Bomb

In Ahmadinejad’s analysis, the rising Islamic “superpower” has decisive advantages over the infidel. Islam has four times as many young men of fighting age as the West… Continue reading

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Egypt Versus Gaza

The Hamas regime is not just a threat to Israel but to Egypt. Egypt’s government doesn’t forget that for a moment… Continue reading

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World Zionism Blamed for Brazil’s and Argentina’s Defeat in the World Cup Soccer

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki expressed his satisfaction over the defeat of the US, England, and France at the World Cup in South Africa. Referring to the failure of the… Continue reading

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Flotillas and Convoys to the Gaza Strip

There are other initiatives to organize aid flotillas and convoys to the Gaza Strip, some of which plan to transfer the goods through Egypt… Continue reading

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The Libyan Ship Intifada

A Libyan charitable society headed by the son of Muammar Gaddafi organized an aid ship to the Gaza Strip. It set sail on July 10 and is expected to… Continue reading

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Fadlallah’s Legacy Sparks Debate Between Iran’s Reformists and Conservatives

Fadlallah’s legacy sparks debate between reformists and conservatives following the top Lebanese Shi’ite cleric’s death… Continue reading

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The AKP’s Hamas Policy: “Us vs. Them”

At home, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has promoted the Islamist mindset of “us Muslims” in conflict with “the bad others” through the media and also by spreading Hamas’ views throughout Turkey… Continue reading

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The Persistence of Islamic Slavery

Slavery was taken for granted throughout Islamic history, as it was, of course, in the West as well up until relatively recent times. Yet while the European and American slave trade get stern treatment attention from historians, the Islamic slave trade, which actually lasted longer and brought suffering to a larger number of people, is virtually ignored… Continue reading

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Update on the Flotillas to the Gaza Strip

According to “Lebanese sources” international pressure is being exerted on the Lebanese government and the organizers of the flotilla to prevent the ships from setting sail… Continue reading

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Muslim Zionist Speaks Out in Muslim Bangladesh

Choudhury is the editor of the Weekly Blitz, which he calls “the only anti-jihadist newspaper in the Muslim world…I believe that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and as a Muslim, I believe that the only problem is political Islam and the hate speech…” Continue reading

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Netanyahu-Obama Talks To Stress On Five Key Issues

Five time bombs with short fuses are ticking under the seats of Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu and US president Barack Obama on five key issues on which the US president… Continue reading

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Iran Specified Conditions for Resuming Nuclear Talks With the West

During a press conference held this week by the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad specified Iran’s conditions for resuming the nuclear talks with the West… Continue reading

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Israel Won’t Apologize For Defending Its Citizens

Israel will never apologize for defending its citizens. Of course, we regret the loss of life, but it was not the Israeli side that initiated the violence… Continue reading

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Turkey’s Last Offer To Israel

A week after top Turkish and Israeli officials held a “secret meeting” over the flotilla crisis, Turkey has renewed its warning to Israel that ties between the once-allies would be cut if… Continue reading

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Hizballah Spiritual Leader Muhammad Fadlallah died in a Beirut Hospital

Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh one of Shiite Islam’s main religious figures, died Sunday after a long illness. He was not a voice of moderation at all… Continue reading

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The Mufti’s WWII Fatwah Against Britain

On April 1, 1941 Nazi sympathizer Rashid Ali al-Gaylani lead a pro-Nazi military coup in Iraq [known as the 1941 Iraqi coup d’état] together with four pro-Nazi Iraqi… Continue reading

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An Open Letter to Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“You have accomplished in eight years what no other contemporary Turkish politician could achieve. You have successfully entered the final stages in your efforts to transform Atatürk’s Turkey into an Arab-style Islamist dictatorship… Continue reading

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The Flotilla to the Gaza Strip

More flotillas to the Gaza Strip were being organized accompanied by intensive propaganda, although it is not clear which will actually sail… Continue reading

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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan More Determined Than Ever to Provoke a Showdown With Israel

If Israelis in high official places were still slow to get the message of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s implacable anti-Israel campaign, they only had to listen… Continue reading

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The Turkish Atrocities In Bulgaria

More than 5,000 of the 7,000 inhabitants of the Bulgarian town of Batak, including women and children, were raped, slaughtered, beheaded or burned alive by Ottoman irregulars who left piles of dead bodies around the town square and church… Continue reading

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Ahmadinejad Against Enforcement of Islamic Dress Code

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was strongly criticized by the conservative camp this week for comments made early last week against enforcing the Islamic dress code on women. In a television interview he… Continue reading

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Israel Braces for Iran and Lebanon Ships

The IDF is gearing up for the possible arrival next week of two flotillas of Gaza aid ships – from Iran and Lebanon. IDF sources said that the navy would intercept the ships and would operate under… Continue reading