Posted on Sat, January 21, 2012 at 16:25 pm CET
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Arabism Is Dead! Long Live…?

Many of the arguments and assumptions that governed the Arabic-speaking world for six decades have simply vanished… Continue reading

Topics: Arab League • Arab World • Democracy • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Politics • Religion • Syria 
Posted on Sat, January 21, 2012 at 03:04 am CET
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Strike Oil

The IRGC’s seizure of the Oil Ministry could have far reaching economic, political, and strategic implications… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Energy • Iran • Politics 
Posted on Fri, January 20, 2012 at 00:57 am CET
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Who’s Winning in the Middle East? Everyone Outside the West Knows It’s The Islamists

And the Americans brought them to power… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Arab Spring • Democracy • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Religion • Security and Defense • The Middle East 
Posted on Thu, January 19, 2012 at 17:09 pm CET
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Iran: After Posing Nude, Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani No Longer Welcome in her Home Country

The controversy sparked by Aliaa Magda ElMahdy after posting a nude photo she took of herself on her blog is followed by another controversial posting of a nude photograph… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Democracy • France • Human Rights • Iran • Religion • Sharia Law • Shi'ism 
Posted on Wed, January 18, 2012 at 19:56 pm CET
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Israel’s Options as Muslim Brotherhood Gains Power

The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Israel • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • Security and Defense 
Posted on Wed, January 18, 2012 at 19:53 pm CET
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The Middle East in 2012: The Year of Living Dangerously

The region-wide upheaval known as “the Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamic Terrorism • Islamism • The Middle East 
Posted on Wed, January 18, 2012 at 19:51 pm CET
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Can Real Liberalism and the Democratic Party Be Saved from the Radical Takeover?

The far left has at least temporarily won the battle of ideas in the United States and taken over institutions by pretending to be “liberal”… Continue reading

Topics: Communism • Liberalism • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness • Politics • United States of America • Western Culture 
Posted on Tue, January 17, 2012 at 22:45 pm CET
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Israel-US Relations: Netanyahu Called Off Joint US-Israel Drill

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, decided to call off the biggest ever joint US-Israeli military exercise… Continue reading

Topics: Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, January 17, 2012 at 21:25 pm CET
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Knesset speaker visits Ireland: “It is legitimate to criticise us but first you must know the facts”

Ireland and Israel have had a less than harmonious relationship over the years so the significance of Mr. Rivlin’s visit has been highlighted by Israeli officials, noting that high-level bilateral contact between Ireland and Israel are relatively rare… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Ireland • Israel • Peace Process • Pro-Palestinianism • Rob Harris 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 21:05 pm CET
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The Three Rules of Western Discourse and Why The Media Must Always Blame Israel

It is truly astonishing how, it often seems, how Western media coverage must blame Israel for everything that “goes wrong” in the Middle East… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Israelism • Egypt • Media Bias • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness • Western Culture 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 19:33 pm CET
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Ex-Muslim Sister gives insight into Brothers’s Subjugation, Discrimination of Women and Polygamy

In a time when Western intellectuals, politicians, and journalists are trying to explain that the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a radical Islamist group… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Feminism • Global Islam • History • Human Rights • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:49 pm CET
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Iran: “Big brother” comes to internet cafés, “national internet network” to be launched soon

The Iranian cyber police released new regulations imposing severe restrictions on Iran’s internet cafés… Continue reading

Topics: Cyber War • Democracy • Human Rights • Iran • Shi'ism • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:48 pm CET
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Iran: Severe Conflict between Government, leading Film Industry Figures

leading figures in Iran’s film industry released a memorandum of opinion condemning the Islamic Guidance Ministry’s decision to close the House of Cinema, the main trade union for those employed in the local film industry… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Human Rights • Iran • Shi'ism • The Media 
Posted on Mon, January 16, 2012 at 15:47 pm CET
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Iran’s 2012 Parliamentary Elections: first vetting stage ends; Khamenei calls for mass participation

Iran’s top regime officials are stepping up efforts to ensure the highest possible voter turnout in the March 2 elections. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for mass participation in the elections… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Iran • Politics • Shi'ism 
Posted on Sun, January 15, 2012 at 16:39 pm CET
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Turkey and Cyprus’ Gas: More Troubles Ahead in 2012

New tension is brewing between Turkey and Cyprus after Cyprus’ and Israel’s enormous gas finds in the Eastern Mediterranean… Continue reading

Topics: Cyprus • Diplomacy • Energy • Israel • Politics • Russian Federation • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, January 15, 2012 at 15:47 pm CET
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US, Israel in open rift over Iran

US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive when the White House called off the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have ever staged… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Economy • Iran • Israel • Politics • Security and Defense • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, January 14, 2012 at 15:20 pm CET
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Egypt: If Tourists Can Wear Bikinis But Local Women Must Wear Chadors Does That Prove the Muslim Brotherhood is Moderate?

What if a democratically elected government decides to enforce such a system in a law legally passed by a democratically elected government? I guess that’s just democracy in action… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Egypt • Feminism • Human Rights • Islamic Fundamentalism • Muslim Brotherhood 
Posted on Fri, January 13, 2012 at 13:22 pm CET
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U.S. Military Build-Up Around Iran Continues

The Pentagon is substantially building up its combat power around Iran… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Security and Defense • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Fri, January 13, 2012 at 01:11 am CET
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The Changing Objects of Fear: The Arrest of Ilker Basbug

In the early hours of January 6, General İlker Başbuğ, chief of the Turkish General Staff from 2008 to 2010, was arrested and imprisoned on allegations of “founding or directing an armed terrorist organization, inciting the overthrow of the government of the Turkish Republic or the prevention of it fulfilling its duties”… Continue reading

Topics: Ergenekon • Politics • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, January 12, 2012 at 20:44 pm CET
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Friedman Cheers as Egyptians Are Enslaved

Many in the West have so acted toward Egypt during the last year… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Wed, January 11, 2012 at 20:23 pm CET
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Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated in Tehran

Prof. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was killed early Wednesday… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Iran • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, January 10, 2012 at 22:11 pm CET
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How I Learned About Courage From an Arab Marxist and About Cowardice From Western Phony “Liberals”

A little man stood on the stage in a British university hall… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Islamophobia • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Miscellaneous • Multiculturalism • Political Correctness • Western Culture 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 23:20 pm CET
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Egyptian Coptic billionaire faces trial for contempt of Islam

A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading

Topics: Copts • Crethi Plethi • Democracy • Egyptian Revolution • Human Rights • Islamism • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Mon, January 9, 2012 at 21:18 pm CET
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US, Russian, French and British air and naval forces are gathering around the Syrian and Iranian coasts

US, Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • France • Iran • Russian Federation • Security and Defense • Syria • United States of America 
Posted on Sun, January 8, 2012 at 21:24 pm CET
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Such a “Great” Idea It Can Now Be Proclaimed But Not Criticized: Obama Supports the Muslim Brotherhood

The Obama Administration, as I’ve written for the last year, is favoring radical Islamist forces… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Islamism • Leftist-Islamic Alliance • Muslim Brotherhood • Politics • The Media • U.S. Middle East Policy