Posted on Wed, October 13, 2010 at 19:17 pm CEST
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Muslim Brotherhood Leader Wants A Jihadi Generation That Pursues Death

When the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood–the main opposition group in Jordan and Egypt, and the most powerful Muslim group in Europe, calls for Jihad against the West, people better sit up and take notice… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Jihad • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Muslim Brotherhood • Salafism • Wahhabism 
Posted on Sun, July 18, 2010 at 12:35 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, July 9, 2010 at 13:31 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Slavery in Islam • Sudan 
Posted on Tue, July 6, 2010 at 19:07 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Bangladesh • Global Islam • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israel 
Posted on Sat, July 3, 2010 at 01:14 am CEST
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Europe’s Long Road to the Mosque: Muslim Immigration

How far will European societies go in accommodating a fast- growing minority that not only faces great difficulties with social and cultural integration but is to a considerable extent opposed to it… Continue reading

Topics: Eurabia • Europe • Global Jihad • Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism 
Posted on Tue, June 22, 2010 at 13:04 pm CEST
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Retired Turkish Ambassadors Statement: Erdogan is Caught Up in Neo-Ottomanism

Retired ambassadors hit back at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s criticisms of Foreign Ministry diplomats, saying no diplomat deserves to be the target of such uninformed speech… Continue reading

Topics: Islamic Fundamentalism • Islamism • Israel • Ottoman Empire • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, December 16, 2009 at 22:50 pm CET
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What about the good things from the Afghan Taliban?

We’re getting used to it by now, the bizarre inability to recognize evil, the cultural relativism that excuses real political and war crimes, and the lack of faith by Westerners in their own civilization and religion. Yet each strange juxtapositions never fail to shock those who still remember the way things are supposed to be, and must be if the forces of dictatorship and repression are going to be beaten… Continue reading

Topics: Afghanistan • Britain • Taliban 
Posted on Thu, December 10, 2009 at 11:02 am CET
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The CIA and Iran

The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran’s government in 1953 offers an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans. Written in 1954 by one of the coup’s chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran’s elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist… Continue reading

Topics: Iran